I’ve been thinking of doing a “what have I been thinking about/aware of recently” sort of slush pile to keep blogging progress, so here goes the first bit of that.
Gaming
Continuing to play Dolmenwood with my face-to-face group. We just had a session last night where the party was involved in a bunch of hijinks to use a drug as a lure to creatures from the ethereal plane so they could capture and sell them off. They didn’t do so great but it was a very fun, chaotic scenario.
My online Pendragon game continues to truck along, with the party parleying with a descendant of Vortigern during the Anarchy.
I’ve also been playing in an Age of Sigmar narrative campaign. Holy hell Age of Sigmar’s rules are kind of hot trash, but I’m having fun from a painting and community aspect.
Oh, I also ran Harnmaster 3e using a module on FoundryVTT so I didn’t have to explain the math to a bunch of players. I ran Field of Daisies, with a bunch of modifications, like making one player a wizard and another having access to religious magic. It was a lot of fun and I always love Harnmaster. The scenario kind of plays into making the situation a cave-crawl with a combat, which is fine because the players wanted to test that out, but of course were I running a longer campaign it would have been more of a last resort, I suspect.
I also played in directsun‘s B/X-y take on the classic WFRP adventure Night of Blood, an adventure I have played before but still had a fantastic time regaling party members and NPCs with the miseries of Wissenland and trying to not get sacrificed to thirsting gods.
I will be heading to GaryCon later this month to play in quite a few games, and the week after I am scheduled to run a Mythras one-shot of a kind of John Carter-esque space fantasy gladiatorial game.
News & Links
Marcia B. put out a beta version of her retroclone, Fantastic Medieval Campaigns of the 1974 original edition rules, which includes a useful appendix. While I am very much emotionally attached to the little brown books, I love the color and art of this edition and have used it during online games as the recommended pdf for players.
Wolves Upon the Coast by Luke Gearing is completed. This is one of the most exciting tabletop adventure games ever. I really need to run a longer campaign of it.
Trevor from Me Myself & Die released two videos on Harn, a setting I have quite a bit of affinity for. Here’s an overview of the setting, and here is an interview with Grant D. from Columbia Games. At some point, I’ll have to blog about my feelings on Harn the setting, because I have many – both positive and negative.
Chaosium revealed they are going to be releasing 10! Cult books for Glorantha. While I’m excited about the prospect of that, I am also aware of Chaosium time and how often they over-promise. I suppose we’ll see by GenCon how this timeline is tracking along, as there are supposed to be 3 total books by then.
There’s probably a ton more I should highlight, I need to keep more notes for this pile throughout the month. I’m not trying to be a newsletter or glatisant or anything like that though, so a few pickings that catch my eye are probably enough.
Personal
I had an accident a few weeks ago and injured my head. Fortunately, I had a CAT scan and turned out to be ok, but I have some nasty scars and healing hasn’t been the most fun. Since my other hobby aside from gaming happens to be jiu jitsu, I’ve been jumping out of my skin to get back on the mats, but am still just a little too beat up for that.