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Been pondering a game mechanics change today, specific to our Warhammer FRP campaign. Long ago, we used to play Rolemaster extensively, our group was particularly fond of the more realistic and deadly tone of combat, and the flexibility of the spell systems. However, the character generation mechanics always felt lacking, so over the years we heavily tweaked and modified those pieces. The latest iteration was a heavily changed Pathfinder-based ruleset, which kept the same flavor, but was much more modernized. On the other hand, the current version of Warhammer Fantasy, the 4th edition, has a very robust and details character…
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After numerous months of streaming our live games on Twitch, I have opted to drop the parallel effort and move entirely over to YouTube Live. Functionally, Twitch is much more capable and feature full, but there simply is no audience for our gaming materials and I don’t post actual video games. As such, with all our content, we have managed to only find one or two subscribers. Generally, whenever one adds, another one drops. Since Twitch also doesn’t keep the videos archives for more than a couple weeks, there isn’t much content. Instead, I do some basic editing, then post…
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As planned, our Call of Cthulhu one-shot, The Dare, was able to be held on Saturday. By this point, the first two parts of the session should be available on YouTube, if anyone has any interest in the experience. Unfortunately, the start time was a bit delayed, but everyone had a lot of fun, and we managed to finish the adventure in a single (long) session. It was a rather late 3 AM when the few survivors managed to crawl out of the haunted house. YouTube “The Dare” Playlist The total game time came in at about 9 hours, for…
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A project this week was to build an enhancement to our gaming table setup, specifically to add LED lights along the edge. In prior games, the screen we use is rather difficult to see due to glare from the lights. If we turn off the lights however, the players can’t read character sheets. This was a compromise, allow the lights to be off, while still providing a source of light for the reference. Construction is a simple build of a frame from scrap plywood, with a sloped piece from a 2×4. On the lower surface, I used self-adhesive LEDs, strung…
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The scheduling for games is a bit disrupted this week due to several conflicts in calendars. No Warhammer FRP game this evening or next week, and our regular Pathfinder game this Sunday. However, in its place, we will be holding a one-shot for Call of Cthulhu, using the scenario, The Dare. The setting is Halloween night in 1985, in a town in rural middle-America. The town itself is irrelevant since the adventure is set in an old house, rumored to be haunted. The group is a set of young kids in the 10 to 12 years age group, who have…
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Although we ended up several players short due to scheduling conflicts, we managed to kick off Chapter 3 of the Carrion Crown, with the Broken Moon section. As the group discovered early on, this chapter’s focus is on werewolves, specifically located in the Shudderwood region. At the end of the last chapter, the group was dispatched to pursue the cultists of the Whispering Way thru Shudderwood, to discover their plot. Now the group finds themselves deep in the dark forest at the private hunting club, the Ascanor Lodge, with difficulties, challenges, and political intrigue going on the woods around them…
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The latest episode of our Warhammer FRP campaign, the Enemy Within was posted this morning. This continues and just about wraps up the events of Chapter 1, with the events in Bogenhafen rising to its chaotic conclusion. The group is racing thru the city, multiple plots are coming to a close, and the villains are being revealed. This particular session was unusual, we ended up starting late, and running later than normal, but had to cut the storyline off right as events became even more crazy. The group is fighting a secret cult and taking a lot of damage as…
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An idea I have been toying with for some time has been the option to raffle away some of the miscellaneous props and figures from our gaming sessions. We also have ideas for more, and there is only so much storage space, so rather than having them gather dust, perhaps someone else can benefit. The concept would be fairly basic, like or subscribe to a particular video, and a random commentor wins the prize. Of course, with a small audience, that isn’t much of a factor – so it would currently be the first to comment in a video might…
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Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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