2023/09/30 Session 6: A Rival Rescue (Campbell, Doug, Gryffon, Ronn, Zak) 4 Winterwane 5023      The members of The Order of Righteous Peregrination have been captured by the Redbrands and are held beneath the ruins of Tresendar Manor in Weaverville . It has been a long and unpleasant 48-hours.     However, the heroes of Eureka are not the only adventurers looking to make a name for themselves, find a fortune, and bust some heads in the wild expanse that is the Lost Coast. And here in Weaverville there is a gang of five vagabonds competing with the Order for the hearts and minds of the camp. These rivals are calling themselves The Glimmering Company and their membership consists of the following rogues: Tymek Brangohr , a denwarf mercenary soldier turned priest of Purphoros hailing from the Mountain Gate camp north of Redding . Led by conscience and faith to bring issue to oppressors and bullies who cross his path. Miralar Vilalath , an aelfar who, li...

I have never played the Traveller RPG, in any of its multitude of flavors. Today, I remedied that fact and joined my friends campaign as "Lucky" Daryen Gravic. He's lived a life of struggle, failure, and crime. He's made enemies, taken horrible wounds, and made at least one big score. He is a character of which fate (i.e. the dice) has made a mockery. Let me tell you about him and my first experience with the Traveller science fiction role playing game. Mongoose Publishing's Traveller 2nd Edition 2022 Update, is the flavor we'll be talking about. Daryen is actually the second character I made for this game. The night before I made a character at home and I'm not going to lie; I didn't get it right, missed a lot of the process, but he was a much stronger character... but he lacked the certain something that Daryen Gravic has come to embody. Two things I feel the need to make note of, the first, I compiled that character portrait from several sources and...

 In-Character Log: Thergale #003 09/17/2023 I have traveled to a sky full of different stars and yet if one just looks up, without seeking familiar patterns and ignoring the great band in the sky, the night is the same. Stars are stars. Worlds are worlds. People are people. And the people in question, known here as the Returnal, are looking to draw blood, force battle, and consolidate power. My companions seek to stop them, to match the power of their flying battleships with the spark of a shattered deity. What we saw within the circle tells a tale that time is short and the enemy far more advanced than we suspected. I have been transported here and I must make decisions that I can live with, we go to find a piece of the shattered one. We go to find a new hope and a path forward to match the Returnal. We enlisted the aid of the frostriese astronomer and he transported us upon his cloud. Much time was saved and we are in debt for this aid, less so for his singing. Hopefully, we will...

Cool, playing card holder. I'd never seen a thing like this before. I know, I live in a cave with my head buried in the sand, what can I say. Whatever, my mother had one of these she was using as we played cards during our Florida vacation. I thought it was brilliant and it keeps your hands free for grabbing drinks and pretzels and whatever snacks you got. I was so impressed that I ordered a set of them as soon as I got home. Set of 4 Playing Card Holders by Yuanhe : Hands Free Cards Holders for Poker Parties or Family Card Game Nights. I'm sure there are dozens of companies making similar things, but these are the ones I bought. I think they're pretty sweet and a useful game accessory that I wanted to share with you. They come in a set of four, each a different color (red, green, black, and red). My mother has her name on her's. I put my logo sticker on mine.

I love this idea, question cards (150 of them) to spark discussion and create connections between the characters in your campaign. The idea is simple, your party of adventurers make camp or roll into the tavern, everybody draws two cards and the character development begins. But will it work? Seems like it should, but players have a way of taking the wind out of my sails when it comes to clever ways to improve the game. The cards are divided up into six categories: Past, Present, Companions, Dreams, World, and Hypotheticals. These are subjects for discussion and discovery. Use two, use three, use them all, you decide. Everyone draws two cards, one for their character to answer and one to ask another players character. Roll around the table until everyone has had a chance to ask and answer their questions. Everyone gets to know the characters better, maybe bonds are made or strengthened. And there you go, one boring night around the campfire turns into a fabulous session of roleplaying ...

I had the second session of Delta Green tonight. Having created our characters in the first of three sessions, this time around, we started the actual scenario and it was fun. I'll write it up from the point of view of my character and put it up shortly. Good times.

Finally got the gang to agree on a date for the next session of D&D in the Adventure: The 3-Dragon Problem campaign. We're on for the 30th. Should be interesting as I've convinced them to play their rivals in an attempt to rescue their PCs.... Oh.... I guess I need to get the session write-up done. I'll work on that.

Groundhog Day 2017 inside the head of Jeff Moore What the Fuck! Get yourself together, man! You got this. You wanted this. This stupid, ridiculous assignment. Go to Punxsutawney, take some pictures of Phil, and write a bit of fluff about this silly tradition. You’re like Bill Murray, only without a camera man or a producer. Damn, I love Bill Murray. Probably, everyone loves Bill Murray. But there may have been something to the weirdness that his character went through. What was his name, Phil something-or-other. This isn’t a time loop, but that might be preferable. Maybe coming here early wasn’t a good call. Maybe it was. Fuck I don’t know. It’s a groundhog, right? Sure, it is. A groundhog cared for by a bunch of Pennsylvania Dutch speaking nerds who’ve built a club around their weather predicting rodent. It’s not a cult, it’s a tradition. The rodent isn’t immortal. It most certainly has not been the same groundhog for over a hundred and thirty years. And those guys yeste...

I signed up for anther Meetup event and it went down tonight. This time it was a Delta Green RPG on the table. Delta Green is about the end. The end of everything. Your family, everyone you know, your country, all life on Earth. It may seem to be about other things from time to time. About manipulation. About power. About control. It has all these things, but that's not what it's about. It's not about winning and it's not about advancement and it's not about the best weapon or the most clever plan. Delta Green is about the end of everything - and how much of it you'll live to see. It's scheduled to be a 3-session introduction and tonight was all about the meet-and-greet, character creation, and session zero stuff. Myself and two other guys. I'm a newbie player to Delta Green, so this should be interesting. The next two sessions will be running through a mission. I made a character, met a couple of nice guys, and next Wednesday the fun begins.

There will an interruption in the continuing  adventures of Thergale the Verdant this week. The group is not meeting because of the Labor Day holiday. We shall reconvene gameplay on the 17th of September and I will of course keep you advised regarding your favorite warlock. This works out nicely for me, because I will be out of town leading up to the holiday and I did not think I would return in time for the game. After all, I'm not due back at work until Tuesday morning. :)

Despite the Labor Day holiday weekend the Random Encounter gang got together to party up and continue the adventure.  Walton Glaives was absent from this session of Random Encounter because I was in Florida and couldn't get back in time to make the game. The group continued the exploration of the Warlocks Crypt. Monster's were killed, treasure was gained, and despite my absence Walton  became a 4th-level wizard. I have some decisions to make and a character sheet to update. Woot!

I have a tip for you. I saw this on Facebook, in a YouTube video, or somewhere. It's not my thing. Credit goes to someone else. When using a regular palette to paint my miniatures, I often put too much paint out. But using these fidget popper things works just as well, gives you a smaller pot, and makes clean up a breeze. You let the paint dry, pop the pot, and your dry paint comes right out. Easy peasy. I have three of them, which is probably two more than I need, but excess is kind of my thing. Also, if you take this tip find a fidget popper made of silicone to guarantee the paint wont bond to the plastic. My football shaped one is just plastic and it doesn't work near as well as the round silicone ones. Oh, and try and find white, the colored ones sometimes make the paint color look off and I forget which is which.