Tag: actual play

September 27, 2009

After Hiatus

Today was my first gaming session in almost two months. It was good. Angela and I joined a game that an old friend of mine has been running once a month or so. The system is First Edition AD&D, more or less. Definitely not my first choice for a system. Incoherent and random. The game premise: all the PCs are...

April 8, 2009

Political Considerations…

Yesterday, I voted in my local elections. None of the races that I really cared about turned out the way I wanted it to, unfortunately. Last night, I started thinking about the new D&D (3.5) game I’ve been playing in… the game is currently set in a mid-sized town in a human-dominated mageocratic empire. The three main political powers in...

February 26, 2009

Woodstock: Session Two

See Session One, here. Jason, who played Joan, had to drop out of the game due to time commitment issues. * * * Joan was quickly sent off to brief the other team on the McGee murder case. The other PCs were briefed by Terrence on their new assignment. There’s a ghost in the train station. They need to keep...

February 19, 2009

Nobilis Esoterica

I suspect that everything about Nobilis is esoterica. We discussed live-action Nobilis last Tuesday, and decided that a proper resolution system would involve plucking flower petals in a “He loves me. He loves me not.” sort of way. This is more amusing if you know that flowers are central to the Nobilis cosmology. As far as I can tell, most...

February 5, 2009

Woodstock: Session One

Character creation took up a good chunk of the evening. The PCs: Ethan: metrosexual M.D. Rory: modern-day ranger Lance: crooked(?) P.I. Joan: Desert Storm veteran The PCs are employed as troubleshooters by the Houdini Foundation, a non-profit which concerns itself primarily with end-of-life issues. The Foundation is involved in a number of charitable activities such as hospice care, medical research,...

January 22, 2009

Five reasons why the Nobilis gam I am playing in is awesome

In Nobilis: My boss is an angel who wears robes with kitschy slogans on them. He is master of those things in the depths from beyond creation, laments the loss of his giant squid, and is responsible for creating Deep Ones. We pray to Google for information. My PC walks around with one of the most powerful weapons in the...

January 20, 2009

All good campaigns must come to an end. . .

On Sunday, Angela’s campaign came to a conclusion. I didn’t really expect it. Neither did she. I knew we were coming close, but I thought we’d have another 2-3 sessions. Fortunately, the ending was a good one. Here’s why: It involved major antagonists. Our last combat was actually against Malik, the wizard who cursed the PCs in the first session,...

January 2, 2009

Let me tell you about my characters… now

It has been a year and a half since I’ve done this. I think that’s reasonable. 1) The only character I’m still actively playing on that list is Bart. Back then, I wrote: Sunday, Angela’s D&D Game: Bart Fliegenbart, Dwarven Chef (Rogue 2/Ranger 2) Bart has become the de facto group leader… of a group of misfits. I enjoy playing...

November 24, 2008

Storytime: last night’s game

I swear, our party isn’t made up of PCs. I’m pretty sure we’re a wandering encounter. Last night, in Angela’s game, we went through our first real(ish) dungeon. Yes, we’ve been playing for two years, and we’re 10th level now. …and, yeah, the dungeon is actually above ground (going up, actually), made of glass, and inhabited by good guys (who...

September 8, 2008

Romantic entanglements

On Saturday, we played our temporally-displaced Exalted game. It was a good session in which I got to explore my character a bit more than usual. One thing that I sometimes have trouble with is figuring out how characters feel about things. Sometimes it is obvious. Sometimes, though, people have unpredictable desires… and PCs should be no exception. So, yeah....