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Our recent session was both entertaining and intense, even more so since we ended on a very big cliff hanger. We started the session reminiscing a bit, going over the recent Gencon, and eventually discussing how this particular campaign has set several records for my gaming career. Not only is this the largest long term group (with 10 players), but it is also one of the longest continuous games. Most specifically, we have continued the campaign far longer than I have ever managed to keep interest in Rise of the Runelords (prior record was near the middle of Chapter 3),…
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This next weekend is the long awaited and delayed full start to Shadowrun (maybe). Unfortunately, we have a conflict with the kid’s football schedules. My son’s football plays on Sunday, which make me unavailable, and one of the players plays on Sunday as well, making his family (and most of our other players) unavailable. As usual, our attempts at a second campaign schedule are always challenging. As a compromise, we may shift the game to Friday night instead, which would be a slightly shorter session, but at least is currently open on the calendar. As discussed previously, I am going…
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We continue our bi-weekly game this weekend, with the groups attempts to finally craft the Dominating weapons, and then try to escape from Runeforge. From the last session, they believe that they have discovered that the exit lies in the Halls of Wrath, but they have not yet explored that area as of yet. With their escape, that should wrap up Chapter 5, and we can move into the final chapter of the campaign. One of my tasks is to advance the characters to level 15, in preparation for the game, which I will be trying to do this week.…
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The other purchase I was focused on during the recent Gencon event was obtaining a copy of the newly released Star Wars X-Wing, revised for a 2nd edition. Officially, the game is being released I believe in early September to stores, but Fantasy Flight had brought an overly healthy supply to the convention for early sales. This isn’t a game that I had originally decided to get into, favoring instead Star Wars Armada, but with the new edition it looked to be a good time to start. In my mind, it was previously just too heavily supported, and I would…
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During the recent Gencon convention, my son and I had the opportunity to do a short playtest of the new mechanics being rolled out for Pathfinder 2nd Edition. Nothing super fancy, just a basic combat scenario with low level characters, to see what the differences were. We were teamed up with 3 other players, two of which had practically no experience, and one of which was another experienced gamer. I played the revised Kyra, Cleric of Sarenrae, and George played Fumbus, the Goblin Alchemist.
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Had a fun mini-vacation with the family over the weekend, attending Gencon this year. We only went for the Sunday “family day”, mainly to save a bit on cost, but realized after the fact that that may just not be enough time any longer. It used to be that a single day was enough to see everything, now we didn’t even make it thru all of the vendor hall. Admittedly the wife and younger son didn’t have much interest, but the older son and myself were eager. There was just only so much walking and seeing that could be done…
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Football season is upon us, and that means my younger son is hard at practice with training for his now 5th grade team. One of the volunteer duties of the parents is that one person is asked/volunteers to film all of the games, for review by the coaches and players. Not too hard, but something that one of the other dads typically have done in the past. This year, I was volunteered to do so.
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Over the years, I have had more than a few occasions to smell the nearby presence of a skunk, though fortunately never have we had a direct confrontation. This despite curious dogs, and more than a few known critters in our neighborhood. Unfortunately, last night around 2 AM, our dog managed to break that streak, and after running from the backyard, we discovered a rather pungent odor. It was enough to permeate the house, and wake up the wife, and the dog was none too happy as well. What followed was some rather frantic google-searching, followed by a series of…
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