This week in the land of Dark Sun our intrepid adventurers found themselves moving beyond the dark dank caverns into a dark and dusty tomb. Of course as with all tombs this one was filled with traps and ancient guardians.
Once again it was a fairly easy night. This time around there were only two enemies, a pair of giant golems, who though hitting hard were still a limited threat. The real fun of this encounter was all the traps and moving the party about the playing field, setting off said traps and causing them to attack their allies. Though still a very easy encounter for my group they had alot of fun dodging the traps and trying to figure out how to take out the golems.
Jarvix took some hard hits as Yuka kept getting tricked into attacking him, and Castri as usual took the brunt of the attacks from his front line post. Otherwise the party was left untouched as the fight went on. Also since my party has become just a tad bit paranoid they discovered most of the traps early on and did a good job avoiding them throughout the fight.
Next week I’m out of town so the week after will be a double shift as we finish off this chapter. Will make for a long night, but should be very interesting as sessions four and five of this chapter flow right into each other and depending how they do I might skip the short rest between them to up the difficulty a little. Until then ladies and gents.
Little late on this one but on with the show. Like last week this encounter continues on in the catacombs beneath the desert. As I said last time this one is a much more traditional dungeon crawl with larger maps and the encounters flowing much more naturally as the party travels through the winding passages [...]
Zombies, gotta love them. And lately those always lovable rotting denizens of the undead have been eating up a good chunk of my time courtesy of Playforge’s game Zombie Farm.
It’s an odd concept really, possibly inspired a bit by the hit Plants vs Zombies which I reviewed awhile back. Essentially you’re a farmer growing a [...]
This week began Chapter Two of our Darksun encounters. While the first chapter was a race through the desert with the party being chased by their unknown attackers this second chapter is a more traditional dungeon crawl as the group delves into ancient catacombs beneath the desert sands.
We gained two new players this week, so [...]
I am a child of the eighties, and I’m male, ergo I love Transformers. Now being a kid of the eighties the fact I love giant robots is a given. We were flooded with Japanese imports in those days. Voltron, Robotech, and dozens of other seventies giant robot anime were being dubbed and broadcast for [...]
Ah week five, the climax of the first chapter, the end of the parties long trek across the desert of Athas. We ended up with only three players once again this week so I had everyone play two as they entered this epic chapter ending encounter.
With the party backed into a box canyon, the storm [...]
This week I wasn’t quite as prepared as I should have been, so the night started off with my pulling a skill check out of thin air and then stumbling a bit through the parties meeting with a lone dwarf wanderer named Ralo.
After a diplomacy check to ease Ralo’s mind and ensure him they weren’t [...]
Jonah Hex is a result of DC Comics foray into westerns in the early 70s. I’ve always been a fan of westerns, an influence of my mother I think. So of course when I discovered Jonah Hex I was an instant fan. He was and is a different kind of character from their normal fare. [...]
For our third week spent under the blistering sun of Athas only three members of the group were able to make it. Rather than try to scale down the encounter so drastically I opted to have each player run two characters. Though it took a round or two for them to get into the flow [...]
I’ve always been a fan of strategy games, especially turn based games. As fun as an RTS can be I often prefer the more relaxed tactical game play of turn based fare. More chess style tactics and less zerg rushing. Your forced to use more thought in your choices and far less twitch. As I’ve [...]
