Saturday, 7 December 2019

Chritmas Gifts

Started 3D printing gifts for my players.

I will do spell slot trackers for my Druid and Cleric players and Hit Point trackers for my Monk and Barbarian players.

Here is the cleric players spell tracker, I also printed a neutral spell slot tracker with tabs but need to try different tabs they seem to small.




Monday, 2 December 2019

So many Sessions behind

Book five (Sins of the saviors) is past us now and I changed book six to add one of the backgrounds of the dwarf druid into play.

They went to the Vekkers borthers cabin to find it is still haunted but that Dola Ironblood has the last pages for safe keeping to the secret whereabouts of Xin-shalast.

I used Down the blighted path as a reference and changed all the haunts towards Ulfgars betray of his clan (darkwood), the ironblood clan. I even used a recurring villain from book two that Ulfgar tried and failed to capture, Caizarlu Zerren, Necromancer.
I have it written that they can find the missing pages but to put her (Dola) soul to rest they have to go in Nar-vol the top lay of the darklands to stop Zerren.

Let's see what they do?

Sunday, 17 November 2019

That Model!

Ever have that model that sits on your shelf and you have looked at it for years and think you will never use it.
Yes I do.

But not today!
My  Karzoug statue was finally used!



Thursday, 31 October 2019

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Not for the kids tonight it will be raining and windy all night.

No Halloween game tonight but will be gaming this Sunday and due to a unexpected lay off we are gaming again on Thursday as well!

Tuesday, 29 October 2019

AD&D

Purchased a used copy of the advanced d&d player's handbook to look over for nastalgia sake.
Hopefully it will bring some good vibes back from the old days.

Kobold Press


I backed Demon Cults book from Kobold press and with shipping learned that it is unwise to kickstart a book due to the shipping costs to Canada.

I support them by buying everything locally or on wordery.

Looking forward to Empire of Ghouls and I will be picking up Tales of the old Margreve soon.
Deeper Magic has me so pumped to purchase!
 

Monday, 28 October 2019

I want to game

I would like to game more, the economy is in a turn down and I find myself with more time on my hands and would like to game more.

I can not open my house to a third game but willing to join a game locally.

Sunday, 27 October 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors
to D&D 5e, the group has completed three sections and also fled from two more in the Runeforge and entered Greed section. Greed is complete.

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path Eps 61  , Ruins of Azlant eps.30,Androids & Aliens eps.46,glass cannon eps.212
  • Reading:  Pathfinderlost Omens Character Guide
  • Watching: Fear the walking dead S04, Doctor Who S10,the Magicians S03, van helsing S03.
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating: extremely poorly
  • Drinking: all I should not

Pr-Ordered

-Pathfinder 2e lost Omens Character Guide (got it is
-Eberrron

Sitting at my Local game store for pick up

-Boar Demon



Missing,
Adventure Paths
last 4 books of Jade Regent
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous


Map Folio's,
-None


In the mail
-Starfinder attack the swarm book 2
-Dawn of Flame pawns
-Tyrants grasp pawns


Pawns
-starfinder alien archives 3 

Selling,

Necron army
Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Last Session

Today we gamed again,
We we're down a player and no substitute meant we had to game with three players. But it was fine, with Toucan a goldfish the player that plays Tamarr was absent, so they went into the main fight against The Mithral Mage and his golem monsters.

Used 3 obsidian golems and the mithral mage was a transmuter wizard (lvl 9) and obsidian golem combination.

It was a cat and mouse game as the mage ran from the group with expeditious retreat up and he kept away from the barbarian mostly, the golems real took a beating from the druid in earth elemental form.
It was fun for me, not sure about the rest of the group ๐Ÿ˜‰





Sunday, 20 October 2019

Still in Play

Banishment was NOT shot down.

It is still in play as hold person did the exact same thing today shutting down any argument for it.

So no new house rule.

Monday, 14 October 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors
to D&D 5e, the group has completed three sections and also fled from two more in the Runeforge and entered Greed section.

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path Eps 58  , Ruins of Azlant eps.29,Androids & Aliens eps.46,glass cannon eps.211
  • Reading:  Currently nothing
  • Watching: Fear the walking dead S04, Doctor Who S10,the Magicians S03, van helsing S03.
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating:extremely poorly
  • Drinking: all I should not

Pr-Ordered

-Pathfinder 2e lost Omens Character Guide
-Eberrron


Sitting at my Local game store for pick up

-Nothing



Missing,
Adventure Paths
last 4 books of Jade Regent
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous


Map Folio's,
-None


In the mail
-Nothing

Pawns
-starfinder Dawn of Flame
-starfinder alien archives 3 

Selling,

Necron army
Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Sunday, 13 October 2019

Canadian Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

Here is an early Happy Thanks giving Day!

Tuesday, 8 October 2019

House Rules

Had a player bring up an issue with a spell.

Banishment.

They would like to petition it changed or eliminated. I feel the same about counterspell.
Both spells take away from game.
No one wants to sit at the table waiting while banished and the other side is the party destroying the evil wizard as the parties wizard just counterspells.

I left it up the party member to petition it, let's see what happens?

Monday, 7 October 2019

Last session

The party fled a fight, used recon methods, ignored a villain they fought even thou they wondered why she survived a fight, set off a trap and a lost party member needs to be found.

They fought Jordimandus in the sloth chamber, used an archemage on a flying chair with 4 blood oozes, that have the listed special abilities from the book (modified).
-Jordimandus cast banishment on 3 members and they failed, the cleric ran and the rest followed him when they cam back from being banished.

The cleric used arcane eye 2 times for a long period to do recon in the greed and sloth chambers.
 the third time was to spy on the mistress in the chambers of lust and she was talking to an invisible creature while repairing a magic item, the group did not go in as the nightmare was no place to be scene.

the cleric set off the greed trapped door

the monk has been polymorphed into a gold fish and teleported to a random pool of water in the halls of greed. They found a pool of fish and took one out and when it died it became a human, they reincarnated it into a bugbear and realize it is speaking Azlanti.

The session ended when the door to the mithral mage opening and the monk will be playing the villain this time around!  

Monday, 30 September 2019

Motivated


Motivation,

I'm finding it very hard to get motivated with my gaming in the past 3 weeks. I think it relates to the issues at home.
Nothing serious just upheavals with scheduling and from the norm to chaos till we find a way around it.


So I need to get motivated! Tomorrow I make two encounters.

Saturday, 28 September 2019

3D print


I printed my first large and time consuming print to date.
The song of fire and ice miniatures game uses a board for the game and a young fellow in my gaming group requested it, well here you go,



Friday, 27 September 2019

Chapters-Indigo, Thank you



I purchased from Chapters-Indigo Pathfinder 2e new Lost Omens Guide with out a bent corner, Thank you, I appreciate you Chapters-Indigo.

Monday, 23 September 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors (still working on the last one wrath) to D&D 5e, the group has completed three section of the Runeforge and entered the Ravenous Crypts currently.

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path  Eps 39 ,Ruins of Azlant eps.28,Androids & Aliens eps.44,glass cannon eps.210
  • Reading:  Pathfinder 2e
  • Watching: Fear the walking dead S03, Doctor Who S10, American Dad S15.
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating: less (my wife is working again after 18 years)
  • Drinking: water & coffee

Pr-Ordered (from Chapters)
-Eberron


Sitting at my Local game store for pick up
-Pathfinder age of ashes book 3



Missing,
Adventure Paths
-last 4 books of Jade Regent
-All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous


Map Folio's,
-Tyrant's grasp


In the mail
-Tyrants Grasp book 5
-Tyrant's grasp maps
 

Selling,

Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army
Necron army

Sunday, 22 September 2019

Cancelled Session

I almost never cancel sessions but last night with two of are appliances not working had to shut the game down for a this one session to get my life in order. Hopefully it can be done quickly and cheaply/
My washing machine is leaking and the dryer heating element is not working, time to get these fixed.

Friday, 20 September 2019

Good bye Amazon, Hello Chapters

I Cancelled all books that I pre-ordered from Amazon due to shipping habits.

They package everything now in bubble wrap envelopes and my hard covers keep getting damaged.

I re-ordered everything from Indigo Chapters as they ship in cardboard box type envelopes better protecting the book.

Thursday, 19 September 2019

Life

It gets in the way of having fun, I have been busy with no time to prep or my home game and then they drop the ball and schedule a Saturday production. Half my cell is calling in or scheduled to not work so I have a strange feeling I maybe working that day ๐Ÿ˜ญ

I will be prepping my game  starting today just need to read up on two sections and monsters then read a third section that I populated with creatures.
They fled from the nightmare when we last left off!

Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Time invested

The players are all 3rd year university engineering and a computer software guy? (computer science student, I believe?). All enjoy the game and prefer Pathfinder to 5e but they refuse to invest time into the game.
It always confused me as to why someone would enjoy something so much but yet not do the work associated with it. Lots of work, yes, but a small amount attached to your hobby perplexes me.

I get a difficult or confusing but say a easier game that you have played for months is hard to wrap me head around?

Tuesday, 17 September 2019

My first Session of Pathfinder 1e, part 2

I played another game with my sons group as they needed another fill in player.

We continued on after the Stag fort and the group began building their empire.

I educated the Warpriest on how to better play his character.

I see the differences between D&D 3.5/Pathfinder 1e and D&D 5e more clearly now and how the game flows easier and with less issues in debates of the rules. I still think  5e needs more but agree that Pathfinder 1e needs less.

Pictures of the last game.




Monday, 16 September 2019

What I did today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors
to D&D 5e, the group has completed three section of the Runeforge and entered the Ravenous Crypts currently.

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path recap of Eps 36 ,Ruins of Azlant eps.27,Androids & Aliens eps.43,glass cannon eps.209
  • Reading:  Pathfinder 2e
  • Watching: Fear the walking dead S03, Doctor Who S10, American Dad S15.
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating:extremely poorly
  • Drinking: all I should not

Pr-Ordered

-Pathfinder 2e lost Omens
-Eberrron
-Baldur's gate



Sitting at my Local game store for pick up

-WFRP rough days & hard nights
-Essentials D&D boxed set



Missing,
Adventure Paths
Tyrants Grasp book 5
last 4 books of Jade Regent
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous


Map Folio's,
Tyrant's grasp


In the mail
-Nothing
 

Selling,

Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Saturday, 14 September 2019

Fext

Tome of Beasts p.183 these look interesting to use as eldritch knights in the halls of wraith?

I will lose the Undead tag, the Damage resistances and the Conditions immunities making them CR 5 creatures now and living.

Friday, 13 September 2019

2 rooms

Are completely done.

Will be working in hallways and then will start my third room to 3D print.

Monday, 9 September 2019

Last nights session

Yesterday in the Runeforge,

While within the Ravenous Crypts of Gluttony the so called heroes did not even find the big bad guy (Azaven). They fought Xyoddin Xerriock and she messed them up.

for my 5e rise of the runelords 5e game. They are level 12 within the runeforge.
I used Jasna Veldrik from Demon Cults & Secret Societies p.48 and 5 Darakhul from
Tome of Beasts p.216 after this fight I did not spring the 6 mummies in the next room but they all failed a perception check to find Avavens chambers.

Best part was the druid smashing the negative plane gate and releasing the Nightmare, they are being pursued by the nightmare but it went into the halls of lust and they fled to the halls of pride.



Friday, 6 September 2019

Working on the game

Just doing a few touch ups on the festering maze of sloth in the runeforge and still need to read and complete the halls of wraith and how to enchant all the groups weapons?

After these two remaining days of the long labour day weekend I will start book six spires of xin-shalast and begin the end of the campaign, November 2019 is the target date to begin the count down, T-minus 10 sessions to the end.
I will guess they will end at level 15 but not really play much of that level.

Thursday, 5 September 2019

My Dream

Had a dream last night, with the wife with gainful employment I retired at the age of 55 (9 more years) and I opened a 3D printing shop.

It was just to keep me busy and fill my day's in the winter printing off stuff for gamers across North America, I believe 3D printing will take off within the next 5 to 6 years and by 9 it will be more common in house holds that it will be too late, but you never know? 

Still working on 3D printing my dungeon and in a month start a cavern project.


Monday, 2 September 2019

I got help

My wife after almost 18 years of unemployment went out and found a job, now that needing to raise the children is not complete but lessened.
This is a three fold reason,
one, the auto industry is shrinking and my job is in jeapordy, it always has but it seems worse.
two, we have 2 children in university in a few days.
three, I walked into the dealership and bought my wife a new jeep Cherokee as she said she would need it to get a job.
 

Sunday, 1 September 2019

Last Session

The Half-orc Barbarian is no more, the Succubus charmed him 2 sessions ago and he turned on the party when they tried to force him to leave with them.
It was nice to see the rest of the group actual having a little fear.

They had to put him down and revivify did not remove the charm, but the Druid knew reincarnation would. Charles is now an aasimar (fallen) barbarian.

We are in the Ravenous crypts and necromancy is a foot, they will battle a lich for the first time in this game of 5e and lets see how they do up against it.

Friday, 30 August 2019

Ebay

September 1st is the last day to post free insertion on ebay

10 days ago I posted 50 painted zombies from my old vampire counts army from 6th edition, they sold for my starting bid of $160.
I will be posting
three skeleton batches
three more zombie batches
wolf batch
cavalry batch
metal ghoul batch
wraiths and bat batch

It was my first and favourite army to play with when I started my "professional tournament career"my wife jokes.
It is also my last painted warhammer army, it is kind of said in a way if it all sells.

 

Thursday, 29 August 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors
to D&D 5e, the group has completed three section of the Runeforge and entered the Ravenous Crypts currently.

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path recap of Eps 34 ,Ruins of Azlant eps.25,Androids & Aliens eps.41,glass cannon eps.208
  • Reading:  Pathfinder 2e
  • Watching: Fear the walking dead S03, Doctor Who S09, American Dad S15, the boys S01
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating:extremely poorly
  • Drinking: all I should not

Pr-Ordered

-Pathfinder 2e lost Omens



Sitting at my Local game store for pick up

-Dawn of flame book 6
-Age of Ashes book 2
-Starfinder swam book 1



Missing,
Adventure Paths
Tyrants Grasp book 5
last 4 books of Jade Regent
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous


Map Folio's,
Tyrant's grasp


In the mail
Tyrants grasp book 4
Dawn of Flame book 4
 

Selling,

Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Wednesday, 28 August 2019

My first Session of Pathfinder 1e



Played with my sons group as the filler and the veteran walked in with a level 3 Human Cleric of Desna, they warpriest was absent.

I amazed them by channeling, casting a cure moderate and using the heal skill to full potential, using bit of luck from the luck domain also dominated the playing field.

I enjoyed myself immensely!

Game photos of the assault on the Stag Lords fort.



Even Roll double 20's with bit of luck 


Tuesday, 27 August 2019

My First Printed Room


The 3D printer has been working!
Had to calibrate it four times after it moved from taking printed material off, I assume?

I will be printing the Troll Lair and if I'm lucky, can use the cavern pieces to do half the Owlbear lair for the final fight in book two of Kingmaker, Rivers Run Red.
Once the Troll lair is done I start on Karzougs lair the final fight in Rise of the Runelords.





Tuesday, 20 August 2019

Play Time



I WILL FINAL GET A GAME IN!!!!

My son needs a player for the session so will make a third level cleric for a Kingmaker game, can't wait to play!

Monday, 19 August 2019

Savage Worlds

I know very little of the game, as it will be the next game we play after the D&D 5e campaign ends, it will be a change from the normal D20 systems I have played.
This will be a shorter campaign, set in Windsor 1997 a Supernatural one.

Sunday, 11 August 2019

Spent too Much Today

Bought for Pathfinder 1e and 3e today,
-the GM screen 2e
-Tyrants grasp book 6 1e
-Age of Ashes book 1 2e
-Condition cards 2e
-Combat pad 2e
-PDF for corerulebook 2e
-PDF for Bestiary 2e

Hopefully Amazon sends my Core rule book and Bestiary soon!

Saturday, 10 August 2019

The Iron Cages of Lust

In my conversion to 5e of Rise of the Runelords, the party is 11th level currently and I believe they will be 12th level next session or now?
Six session ago I just started handing magic items over more and more as I would like to end the campaign by level 14? (ish?).

H1. Eryalla, Lelyrin, Voivod and Zevashala, I used Succubus from the monster manual

H2. Used Forcecage spell as the forcecages but allowed the Succubus to use Etheralness into them.

H3. made a HD 16 solider on rpgtinker

H6. Used eight ghasts from the monster manual. Why ghasts? look to H7.

H7. Used a Nabassu from Mordenkainen's Tome pg.135 for Mistress Delvahine's. I reskinned it to look like a gorgeous Succubus misstress, lost the Demonic Shadows, replaced with Charm.



 

Friday, 9 August 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors
to D&D 5e and soon to start Book 6 Spires of Xin-Shalast.

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Game Classy Eps.177 Find the path recap of Eps 37 ,Ruins of Azlant eps.23,Androids & Aliens eps.40,glass cannon eps.207, started a new podcast die by the sword episode 3 (Carrion Crown, can't get into this podcast). Morrus review on Pathfinder P2.
  • Reading: Book 6 Spires of Xin-Shalast.
  • Watching: Fear the walking dead S03, Doctor Who S08, The Boys S01, Tick S02
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating:Poorly ending my 5 week vacation.
  • Drinking: water,coffee and too much Beer.

Pr-Ordered

1.Pathfinder 2e corebook (I hate you Amazon)
2.Pathfinder 2e bestiary (I hate you Amazon)
3.Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #1 (I hate you AMAZON)
4.Pathfinder 2e lost Omens



Missing,
Adventure Paths
Tyrants Grasp book 4,5,6
Dawn of flame book4 & 6


Map Folio's,
Tyrant's grasp


In the mail
Pathfinder pocket edition Ultimate Equipment (Indigo you suck)
 

Selling,

Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Thursday, 8 August 2019

Last Session

The last session we had was really fun, the group made a deal with the ladies in the Iron cages of lust, the Barbarian went into the harem and was charmed by the mistress Succubus.
He did not want to leave the harem of his new mistress and fought on her side, the cleric banished her and the barbarian, good times when the party fights each other!!! ๐Ÿ˜€

The game ended with the barbarian and mistress succubus in limbo but he is still under her control!

Amazon I dilike you

Still waiting on my Pathfinder P2 core rulebook and bestiary!

8 days after release and still they have not shipped.

Not cool!

Wednesday, 7 August 2019

The Shimmering Veils of Pride Part 2

Always amazes me when I think the party will have a difficult time and then clean house after two rounds of what I thought was a difficult bad encounter.
Once the party closed with the group and beat a few mirroe images out of the mages they folded like paper, I have been watching the cleric he is from the arcana domain and I have to tell you he is a huge playing piece in this game, a very powerful piece. He is always complaining he is under powered and I could not disagree more.

I6. I just used 6 Succubus for the alu-demons. 

Tuesday, 6 August 2019

Necromancy. Evil?


Sitting here thinking about what we will be playing in March or April of 2020?

Leaning towards a short campaign.
Gurps modern day horror (well early 1990's) or Hunter the reckoning?
Played gurps briefly as well as white wolf games but never Hunter.

So would Necromancy be evil if it was used to bring back loved ones in a modern day setting?
Still I believe no as the strongest religion in power in the area would condone it as evil and would make it illegal and the person put to death.

But I believe that as more would use it for power then for the right reasons and that is what makes it evil, the purpose behind it not what it an do. 

Monday, 5 August 2019

A Change of scenery?

With a change of scenery coming I plan on 3D printing the big fight with Karzoug soon, just getting the last bits for my printer and trying other companies free printing STL files before I commit to purchases.

It will look like this but 3D printed,


Related image

Monday, 29 July 2019

Been Trying to Print

First 3D print was a fail.
Once more filament comes in I keep trying.
more to come

Thursday, 25 July 2019

Just Waiting



Just Waiting on Pathfinder 2nd edition to release and begin reading up on all the changes. Getting a little excited to play another system then 5e, have played in three campaigns, two long and one short to be exact.
Pathfinder 1e, I want to give another chance to it, I blindly blamed it for my issues at the time for work load and having 7 players really hurt it. I enjoy it but do see a break down at around levels 11 or 12 for time in game play, we will see? The new hotness is Pathfinder 2e.

I have on Pre-order, the core rule book, bestiary and just cancelled my my 2 other books via Indigo as the prices jumped so will wait till they lower.

Looking forward to starting a new or playing an old system.

Wednesday, 24 July 2019

3D printing

Why should I do this with a projector is so easy?
Cool factor?
Awe factor?

Sitting in my Paypal account is more then enough money to purchase the 3D printer I need , but as always I need to get rid of physical material that I have in my gaming room.

Broke up my Cryx army into five lots to try and sell, posted just the jack heavy one, if it sells that pays for my 3D printer and I will buy it. Then sell the other 4 lots as it will make more space for the printer and what I print. Next would just move onto the next army to split and sell.

I would start printing Dungeon terrain for my D&D game mainly for boss fights and cool factor as with a projector an entire dungeon is not needed.
Next step is to start printing terrain for tabletop miniatures games and sell them locally to make my money back on the printer, so a goal of $300 sale, not difficult to achieve. The fear factor is if I make it make in a few months of starting to sell it that I make diuble back and want to buy another one๐Ÿ˜‰

I do not need this printer I should not buy it, but I will ๐Ÿ˜

Monday, 22 July 2019

The Shimmering Veils of Pride

The Shimmering Veils of Pride

Is a RuneForge encounter in Rise of the RuneLords adventure path.
As my game is D&D 5E let's convert cause my none RPG player did not follow his character development adventure.
Just going to do the the brief rooms.

I1.Mirror of Opposition does not exist in 5E, so made up and after found a Homebrew one on DNDBeyond.
Just had it make a complete identical being (there was two mirrors so two beings), in this case it was the monk. The mirror used a Pathfinder/d&d 3e rule of damage resistance (DR) of 10, I minus-ed 10 points of damage from the each attack, doubling bludgeoning damage.
It took 2 party members (Barbarian & Monk 2 rounds to destroy it) The Druid was in earth elemental form and smashed the other mirror in one attack due to the siege rules. I had the two created images shatter like glass when the mirror was destroyed.

I2.seven clone illusionist will dealing with the group.
We stopped mid fight, but the Druid was hit with five Vitriolic Sphere made two Dex saves and needs to take damage for three next round, but the sphere's knocked him out of elemental form. He thinks he is smart as the damage is at the end of the turn and he will cast polymorph on himself but then he will have to make 3 concentration saves! lol!

I will post the rest after the encounter is done

Part 2

Friday, 19 July 2019

Had a fun time

Last session was one of the last times I can remember having a fun time gaming.

They fought a white dragon (re-skinned adult green dragon) the cleric got grappled in the dragons mouth and took off to feast later, the monk ran up a statue and jumped on the dragons back, the barbarian and druid (in air elemental form) were in hot pursuit.
Treebeard II died running up the stairs the the dragons lair and was killed by earth elementals guarding the stairs & the  dragon breath did most of the damage.

They found the Runeforge and are currently in the Simmering Veil of illusions and we stopped mid fight between seven level 7 illusionists.

My group problem solved, laughed and had fun as did I.
Can't wait for the next session!

Sunday, 14 July 2019

Down the Blighted Path, Conversion to 5e Part 3

E16.
FORGING OF FIREBRAND
XP 1,200
Notice: Insight DC 18 (to feel the swelling of
evangelical devotion)
hp 40; Trigger proximity; Reset 1 day
Effect: When this haunt triggers, the forge behind the altar
flares to life, and the image of a dwarven girl—barely
beyond puberty—appears beside the flames, hammering
steadily as she melodically sings hymns to the Father
of Creation. After 5 rounds, each blow of her hammer
causes waves to ripple throughout the chapel, and all
living creatures within must succeed at a DC 15 Constitution
saving throw or become fatigued as they absorb the toil
and effort Delbera divinely shed. This has no effect on
creatures that are already fatigued.
Destruction: This haunt may be damaged by positive
energy as well as lightning damage thanks to its firm
focus on metal. Living creatures may also defeat the
haunt by singing hymns to Torag along with Delbera’s
spirit. This requires a successful DC 12 Knowledge
(religion) check or DC 17 Perform (sing) check; any
creature who succeeds in singing along with Delbera’s
hymns automatically succeeds at its saving throw
to resist the haunt’s fatigue effect. If the haunt is
defeated, a thrumming chant of dwarven voices sounds
through the hall, swearing, “By sweat and blood, we
have come here.”

E17.
Wolf Reaver Dwarf x3 (Tome of beasts page 426
Changes
-Dwarven resilience for Duergar resilience
-Reckless for Enlarge
-Danger sense for invisibility.
Duergar Stone Guards x3
medium encounter, 3,450 x.p




Thursday, 11 July 2019

Encounter Arkrhyst

Building the Encounter with Arkrhyst in D&D 5e, I first changed the fall in the cave to only 160 feet, I use D10's for falling damage instead of D6's to a maximum of 40D10's.

Why? well if a character has over seventy hit points they should survive the fall according to the rules as written, with this rule change characters need to be still afraid with two hundred hit points, I play a lot of high level games and found people jumping of high places a little too much.

So 8x11 is only an average of 88 H.P's of damage from a 160 foot fall, even level eleven characters will be scared of that.

Arkrhyst will be a Adult Blue Dragon stats and change all the immunities to cold and, all lightning damage is changed to cold damage and the breath weapon is just swapped for an adult white dragon.

I will ignore the part about the dragon casting spells after my last encounter against Mokmurian broke the players against spell casters.


Sunday, 7 July 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors
to D&D 5e, the group just stopped mid fight with Mokmurian and we continue this Sunday!

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path recap of Eps 16 & 17 ,Ruins of Azlant eps.21,Androids & Aliens eps.37,glass cannon eps.200.3, started a new podcast die by the sword episode 3 (Carrion Crown)
  • Reading:  Gurps Horrors,characters and campagins
  • Watching: Fear the walking dead S02, Doctor Who S08, Cobra Kai S02
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating:Salad, going away and don't want gout
  • Drinking: water and coffee

Pr-Ordered

1.Pathfinder 2e corebook
2.Pathfinder 2e bestiary
3.Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #1
4.Pathfinder 2e lost Omens
Have 4 more items to pre-ordered for 2e waiting on them getting listed


Missing,
Adventure Paths
Tyrants Grasp book 4
Dawn of flame book 5
last 4 books of Jade Regent
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous


Map Folio's,
Tyrant's grasp


In the mail
Pathfinder pocket edition Ultimate Equipment
Dawn of Flame book 5 
Enemy encounter Pawns
 

Selling,

Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Bummed out

It is frustrating.
I want to sell my war gaming armies to fund my other hobby. I have a strange habit of only spending what I really don't need ONLY if I sell something I do not use.

Currently have to sell,
1.Painted Cryx army
2.Painted Gatorman army
3.Painted 6th and 7th edition Undead army.
Plus more.

I would buy,
32 inch or larger flat.screen TV
3D printer
Maybe buy wood and make a gaming table?

Wednesday, 3 July 2019

Down the Blighted Path Conversion to 5e, Part 2

E10.
DAWN OF THE LEGION
Notice Perception DC 18 (to notice ghostly figures moving on
the darkened stage)
hp 45; Trigger proximity; Reset 1 day 
Effect: When this haunt triggers, the figures of the
Firebrand Legion appear amid a din of combat, locked
in battle. The ghostly image of a middle-aged Delbera
appears, her flaming axe in hand, ordering, “Rally to me
and shields up! Don’t give them an inch!” As she yells,
any living creatures on the stage or within 20 feet of it
are filled with fighting spirit, and must succeed a DC 15
Wisdom saving throw or begin attacking the nearest living
creature, as if affected by a song of discord. Affected
creatures have a 50% chance of attacking the nearest
creature again each round for 5 rounds unless they are
physically restrained or make a Wisdom save at the end of their turn.
Destruction: This haunt may be damaged by haunt rules as well
as thunder damage it is vulnerable too, which disrupts the din
of battle. Living creatures may also defeat the haunt by
playing the part of loyal dwarven soldiers rather than
human bandits, which requires a successful DC 12 Deception
or Performance (act) check from everyone in the theater;
dwarves receive a +5 circumstance bonus on this check.
If the haunt is defeated, a thrumming chant of dwarven
voices sounds through the hall, swearing, “And wed
ourselves to duty.”

E14.
Deadly Encounter 7,500 x.p
Haab Nuervagan (use Drannin Splithelm, princes of the apocalypse pg.210)
Changes
-Dwarven resilience for Duergar resilience
-Second wind for Enlarge
-lose the control amulet and ring of cold for invisibility.
Plus Duergar Warkord x2

E15.
FIRST BLOOD
XP 1,200
Notice Perception DC 18 (to feel the ground begin to rumble)
hp 45; Trigger proximity; Reset 1 day
Effect: This haunt triggers whenever a living creature enters
the southern half of the trophy room, causing the ground
to rumble and floor tiles to crack. The ghostly image of a
young dwarven woman in a breastplate appears in the
room, shuffling nervously and looking from side to side
while holding an axe in her hand. At initiative rank 0, a
ghostly bulette leaps from the ground and pulls her below.
Any creatures within 30 of this scene must succeed a DC 15
Wisdom save or become Stunned for 4 rounds, creatures that
succeed at their saving throws are only frightened for one round
Destruction: This haunt may be damaged by positive energy
as well as negative energy, due to its strong associations
with death. It may also be dismissed if a living creature
readies an action to attack before the bulette emerges.
The phantom bulette has an AC of 22; successfully
attacking it immediately neutralizes the haunt, “saving”
the ghostly Delbera from her fate. If the haunt is defeated,
a thrumming chant of dwarven voices sounds through the
hall, swearing, “We who are born with blade in hand.”



Tuesday, 2 July 2019

Next Session


Next session will be off the grid, going old school and using no map as it will be a fog filled encounter that will confuse the players so a map will make them herd together.
Resistance will be high from the math nerds!

Monday, 1 July 2019

Down the Blighted Path Conversion to 5e

Current party is level 11

E1. Ghost with 4 active spiritual weapons. Challenge 5 1800 x.p (just using the ghost possession, horrific image and damage to attack. adding 4 spiritual weapons (not allowing more then 2 to attack a player plus ghost attack. Using the hit points of the ghost to damage the haunt.
E2. Tomb guardian skeletonsx4. 4,400 x.p medium encounter
E4. Duergar stone guard x5
       Duergar warlord                    4,550 x.p

E6. OVERBEARING AUNT CR 4
XP # affected times 9,00 x.p
Notice Perception DC 16 (to notice the sounds of humming
and rhythmic chopping)
hp 45 ; Trigger proximity; Reset 1 day
Damage: 3d6+3 necrotic damage.
Effect: If a living creature approaches or passes by the
preparation table, a ghostly image of a matronly
dwarven woman manifests. She looks up from her
task of serenely chopping mushrooms and happily
announces, “I am so glad you’re finally here. We have
so much to do!” Each living creature in the kitchen must
succeed at a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or be immediately
compelled to pick up knives or pans and begin dinner
preparations with any ingredients at hand, whether they
be real or imaginary. Treat this as a confusion effect that
lasts for 6 rounds, with any results that cause a target to
injure itself or attack the nearest creature representing
various painful kitchen accidents.
Destruction: This haunt may be extinguished regular ways,                                                                or by cold damage, which snuffs out the
kitchen’s fires, Delbera had fond memories of sharing
meals with her family, friends, and soldiers, and if the
PCs offer to share a meal or mug of ale (such as from
the barrel in the corner) with one another, this haunt
is immediately put to rest. If the haunt is defeated, a
thrumming chant of dwarven voices sounds through the
hall, swearing, “Pledge ourselves to the Firebrand and
her mistress.”

Basically a Hybrid between a ghost from the monster manual  pg.147 and a confusion spell that is set off in the area (like a glyph of warding) but the confusion part is 4d6+3 damage till you save.

E7. Ghost Dwarf, riding a Elder ghost boar (large sized creature) creature codex page, 171 & 169.
E8.  YOUTHFUL COMMITMENTS CR 5
XP 1,600
Notice Perception DC 18 (to feel a claustrophobic sense of
commitment and obligation)
hp 45; Trigger proximity; Reset 1 day 
Effect: Mumblings emerge from the floor and walls, stern
voices reminding intruders of their commitments to
family and community and demanding they stay “just
another season.” Long, sinewy arms emerge, grasping for
living creatures and holding them tight—the arms have
a total Strength/Athletics of +12 and deal 2d6+4 points of damage for
each successful grapple maneuver they perform after
they’ve pinned a character, as they drain away ambition
and vitality. This effect persists for 1 minute once the
haunt is activated.
Destruction: This haunt may be dispatched with regular ways
or fire damage fire damage, as it arises from Delbera’s
scribbled notes as much as her memories. The haunt may
also be sated by a stirring speech about commitments to
a wider world or the gods, requiring a successful DC 21
Bluff or Diplomacy skill check. If the haunt is defeated, a
thrumming chant of dwarven voices sounds through the
hall, swearing, “We who are sired by the will to defend.”





Building a few, Haunts

Part one of Haunts can be found here, Haunts Part One

Haunts are just Re-skinned traps or glyph of warding spells that automatically reset after a set time frame.
To me Haunts are areas where a vile or evil act happened and the world remembers what was done there, no normal physical damage can a harm a Haunt, so I added a few turn offs for Haunts.


-Holy water causes damage
-Cleric/Paladin channeling
-items left from the haunt (murdered by a dagger, the same dagger is in the area find it to turn it off)
-talking to the haunt (RolePlay it out!)

All Haunts have resistance to all NON-magic damage.

Converting Down the Blighted Path adventure module to play into one of the party members back story.

Canada Day!



Happy Canada Day!

"It celebrates the anniversary of July 1, 1867, the effective date of the Constitution Act, the holiday was renamed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed"

 

Sunday, 30 June 2019

My 5e Game

It is still going on and have yet to add another update and or session report in sometime.

Attaining level eleven and finishing book 4 the group seems to ignore side stories and want to focus on completion of the campaign. That is nice but at the same time disheartening that they don't want to roleplay, just ROLLplay. I guess you can't have both at times?

The last fight was a test of patience for both sides of the screen, the party lacks ranged capabilities, which was mentioned sessions ago and they have yet to confront it.
I used a stone giant wizard that had glyph of warding, fly spell activated and was blasting the party at range. 3 hours later the battle raged on and patience began to wear thin on both sides of the gaming table.
In the end the wizard fled as he was almost out of spell slots.

So now the group will be rectifying the ranged problem or in 5 sessions will be making it an issue again.

Kingmaker

Kingmaker is an old Pathfinder adventure path that I can twice.
Both ended in TPK's (Total party killed). Sad but true.

Now two sessions in my son has started the campaign with his friends.

Persival, half-orc Bloodrager
Detlaff the youger, elf warpriest
Gawain of the broken table, half-orc sorcerer
Galahad, half-orc hunter
and Phantom, the hunter black panther.

Wonder if he will get a TPK in book two like I did twice ๐Ÿ˜‰

Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Reading Players

Last session the group was getting frustrated with the encounter, it was the little things they said that tipped me off.
"Your a shitty DM" the Druid
"Just end it or kill us" the Barbarian
"Stop laughing at us!" the Cleric
"I will kill myself if this continues" the Monk
"This is great, look at them all crying,Hahahaha" the Ranger

So yes I could tell a little frustration was brewing.
The boss fled to end the fight but he will be back with back up soon!

Sunday, 23 June 2019

Times are a Changing!

The times are a changing!

Came to weird conclusion today of how the game has changed.
Players want to be entertained not challenged.
Old school is success or fail.
New school is keep me entertained.

Not sure which I prefer?

Thursday, 20 June 2019

The Spiritualist

"the master of a single powerful phantom whom the spiritualist can manifest to do her bidding."

Been reading the Occult Adventures book, just bought the pocket edition.
The Spiritualist is like a sorcerer and ranger in 5e, a very poor melee/ranged ranger with more spells that has an animal companion that is a phantom, how cool is that?

This maybe my new favourite or coolest class for pathfinder? it really interests me, wonder how it play's?


Wednesday, 19 June 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors
to D&D 5e, the group just stopped mid fight with Mokmurian and we continue this Sunday!

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path eps.51,Ruins of Azlant eps.18,Androids & Aliens eps.33,glass cannon eps.200.1, started a new podcast die by the sword episode 1 (Carrion Crown)
  • Reading:Occult Adventures
  • Watching: Star Trek S02, The orville S02 and Brooklyn Nine Nine S06
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating: Better
  • Drinking: water and coffee

Sitting in my cart with chapters indigo are 1 starfinder AP's (Dawn of flame #4) pathfinder AP'S Tyrants grasp #3
Sitting in my cart in Wordery signal of screams pawns & return of the runelords pawn



In the Mail,
Actually just arrived.
1.pathfinder pocket  occult adventures
2.pathfinder pocket ultimate wilderness
3.pathfinder pocket Bestiary 3
4.pathfinder pocket advance class guide (bought for the boy)
5.pathfinder pocket core rulebook (bought for the boy)

Pr-Ordered

1.Pathfinder 2e corebook
2.Pathfinder 2e bestiary
3.Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #1
4.Pathfinder 2e lost Omens
Have 4 more items to pre-ordered for 2e


Missing,
Adventure Paths
Tyrants Grasp book 4
Dawn of flame book 4
last 4 books of Jade Regent
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous


Map Folio's,
Tyrant's grasp


In the mail
signal of screams pawns
return of the runelords pawn

Selling,

Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Why Do I Play?

That is a tough one?

First off comradeship of friends and family.
Secondly it has to be the thrill of adventure and entertainment.
Thirdly complexity of challenging player characters with new traps, encounters and fun.
Lastly I enjoy how cool and strategies that play into fun looking set ups on the table top.

Here a pic,

Monday, 17 June 2019

Time off

Once in a blue moon we take time off from the game, last Sunday was one of those times.
When the time comes to game sometimes life gets in the way of the enjoyment, last week was one of those times.
I called it off due to family issues and it was a just in case issue as the possibility was there?

Now in a week time back to the grinder and we will try and fit in 3 sessions in July!! 

Monday, 3 June 2019

Building an Enconter,The Scribbler

The Scribbler Encounter in Rise of the Runelords converted to 5e needs to be win-able as the story has to progress with Knowledge found at the site.
I took the Drow Shadowblade from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes p.187 and needed to add to it.

The Scribbler can use dimension door in pathfinder, the Drow Shadowblade can shadow step, I in turn changed this to only with in the shrine making it even weaker but has no weakness as he can not pursue the group if they flee.

The Innate Spellcasting that the drow can cast, I went a head and changed the darkness spell to Invisibility, Also the shrine automatically has Nondetection on him all the time and guards and wards are always running, these two abilities are like Lair actions always running. In addition Alarm spells are always on in rooms A1,A6 and A9. 



  

Sunday, 2 June 2019

The Next Generation

The Next Generation in my home is starting his third game? it is members from the last two groups that have fallen to the way side, this time he is going to play with only four members and without me!!

Can you believe it? Not inviting his Father. My house, my gaming room, my miniatures, my drinks, my projector, my well you get the picture.

I printed off the spells from 5+ pathfinder books and placed them in one binder for him and also ordered the Pathfinder core rule book and advance players guide for him.
I hope a player drops so I can join ๐Ÿ˜

pathfinder roleplaying game core rulebook pocket

pathfinder roleplaying game advanced players

Saturday, 1 June 2019

What I did Today

What I did Today

Working on converting Rise of the Rune Lords book 5 Sins of the Saviors to D&D 5e, the group is currently mid-fight with Mokmurian. Soon will have that written up, about 7 sessions reports behind.

What I did today?

  • Listening to: Find the path eps.48,Ruins of Azlant eps.16,Androids & Aliens eps.33,glass cannon eps.199
  • Reading: Book 5 Sins of the Savors by Paizo.
  • Watching: Re-watching the office, in session, Justice league fatal five, Our planet,Brooklyn Nine-Nine S06
  • Playing: D&D 5e in Golarion world
  • Eating: better, started a new diet today, my gout has to end.
  • Drinking: water and coffee

Sitting in my cart with chapters indigo are 1 starfinder AP's (Dawn of flame #3) pathfinder AP'S Tyrants grasp #3


In the Mail,
Pathfinder Pawns: Return of the Runelords
 

Pr-Ordered

1.Pathfinder 2e corebook
2.Pathfinder 2e bestiary
3.D&D Baldur's gate: Descent into Avernus
4.Pathfinder Adventure Path: Hellknight Hill
5.Pathfinder Lost Omens:World Guide

Missing,
Adventure Paths
last 4 books of Jade Regent (Fear I will never get book 4 of this AP, as it is over priced)
All 6 books of Wrath of the Righteous (this is a maybe)

Pawns,
Return of the Runelords pawns
Signal of screams

Map Folio's,
None missing



In the mail
Return of the Runelords pawns
Signal of Screams pawns
Pathfinder core rulebook pocket edition
Pathfinder advanced players guide pocket edition

Selling,

Sold my WFRP 3Rrd edition collection (Sold)
Cryx painted army
Undead painted army
Gator painted army

Friday, 31 May 2019

How I built the Bad Guy

Had a fun gaming last night,
The group really pushed to meet the big bad guy for this part of the campaign.

Started late in the session and even stopped mid-session in the boss fight due to a family issue.

How did I build Mokmurian?
On page 198 on Princes of the Apocalypse a character named Miraj Vizann I took that character and placed it on the Stone giant template, increasing the Challenge Rating to 10, then took Marlos Urnrayle on page 199 and added the Earthen defeat and earth passage and Legendary Resistance.
Lair actions are kept the same and only added erupt earth to the Lair actions for two points increasing the CR to 14 (an adult green dragon)

My players then laughed at me a few sessions back about how easy it has been for them, so I kicked it up. Changed the spells and placed three glyphs of warding within the room he was going to be in.
Two erupt earths and a fly spell.
You see if the  glyph is a concentration spell the person it is on does not need to concentrate on it. I dropped three glyphs in the room, two on the stairs and one in an antique chest sitting on the big bad guys desk, it was a fly spell.
In mid fight it looks grim for the party until the last round, the minions are dead and with no party members down they have a hard time fighting this Stone giant wizard flying in the air but we shall see.
 


Thursday, 30 May 2019

Gaming Group History part 2

Group #6
Paul,Doug,Kent,Ian,Reuben,Brett
How a simple mall visit turned into a gaming adventure.
I ran into two old friends from my warhammer and hobby business days. I would sell comics to a store in the county and he would in turn do the same back when we needed extra comic books for customers files. They played warhammer and we would meet up once in awhile to hang out and play warhammer.
The small reunion turned into a car pool adventure to drive almost an hour out of town to play D&D 3.5e. It lasted almost two years.
Memorial occurrence
-When the gnome rogue failed two chances to beat the control of a magic sword, by rolling two consecutive rolls of a 1. The character left the campaign as they were mind controlled.  
-I have very found memories of using Dungeon Magazine to it's full potential with this group, dropping side quests and main quests using only Dungeon Magazines.

Group#7
Paul,Doug,Reuben,Brett,Added Joe a few years later
Group#6 stopped playing for the summer and I received a email about getting back together but minus two players.
We started the game but with Pathfinder and after finishing book 2 of the Carrion Crown adventure path, politics pulled the group apart and I walked away. My mistake was listening to the wrong person, other factors were part of it but it is what it is.
Memorial occurrence
Just Doug being a great and fun loving person, I miss him.

Group #8
Brett,Walter,Andrew,Joe,Reuben, Adam (my son) joined the group.
Joe left for the birth of his daughter, returned months later and left again for the birth of his son, then left again with the birth of his second daughter. Adam, joined the group. Ota joined for four months during his stay in Canada.
We stopped playing Carrion Crown adventure path with group#7 and started up in book three with two co-workers of Joe's (Walter & Andrew)
Adam (my son) joined the group with the start of book five and then I had my break down (not a real one), just that I could not give the group a challenge) and Brett took over as the DM for book five.

After that we tried D&D 4e, but moved onto d&d 5e after only a few sessions as everyone (the internet) said it was better.
I played books 1&2 of Pathfinders Kingmaker with my sons group, ending in a TPK. My sons second group had half the same people and we played D&D 4e and they graduated and we ended the game.

I do enjoy the easy of play that D&D 5e brings to the table. But the groups 6,7 & 8 only played three or sometimes twice every 2 months, not a great amount of gaming TIME was done but it was fun.

Memorial occurrence
-Playing Sinister secrets again but in 5e, running all three U series books and combining it later with Giant slayer adventure path for Pathfinder but in D&D 5e.
-Having fun again
-Making it to level 13 was a nice triumph. 

Group#9 and current
Ryan,Adrien,Adam,Nick (left the game),Andrew (left the game),Mike (left the game) and Joe was added later. Other Ryan is are sub.

This is my current group, we have been only been together since mid 2017 so it is getting to a 2 year anniversary very soon.
I willingly stopped group#8 due to reasons, some political, some selfish.
With this group I played not DMed. I waited till people started dropping off and in time took over the reigns with the left over players but told everyone we are gaming twice a month, the other groups played every three weeks or four, not this one, I selfishly wanted more. I still want more gaming but 24 sessions a year is good for now.
Now sitting at four players with a sub in when people can't make the game makes it easier to run, with my last group six players in Pathfinder bogged the game to a slow moving pace mixed with a slow progress took 3 and half years to finish a campaign.
Currently we are level 10 (soon to be level 11) I plan on getting them to level 14 or 15 and ending the campaign for another system.
This group is consistent and by adding in a substitute player, it has helped with gaming.


Wednesday, 29 May 2019

Measuring Heights & Water depth

I use two ways of measuring height in are D&D 5e games.

One is with a kickstarter I backed a few years back and the second is with the warhammer flying stands. This warhammer idea I stole the idea from pictures on line from order of the amber die.


Assembled 18 more stands in the mail 20 more showed up. Keep going!!!







Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Gaming Group History part 1

I was having a chat with my oldest son about gaming and I started on a rant about all the groups I have been apart of.
The time table will be off a little, these gaming groups have been gaming with me for more then 2 years, anything less then 2 years will not be given a number but I had a few of those as well.

Group#1
My High school had a D&D club, this is 1985
We played every lunch hour, so got around 45mins each day of gaming.
I really enjoyed this and it helped me as I went against the grain and went to a public school as my grade school I attended was separate school board.
I do not stay in contact with no one from my high school days.
Did this for nine months a year for 45 mins a day, made for a session a week.

Group#2
Craig,Darrin,Jim,and Todd
I started playing with one person in the D&D club at a home game. They needed a fourth and I joined, I'm two years younger then everyone else,we played two to three Sundays a month for nine months and usually did marathons during the summer months to get even more gaming in. 
Memorial occurrence
-Kentucky Fried Chicken was across the street, I still remember these guys every time I see a KFC.
-Just having tons of fun gaming with no responsibilities.
-No Internet and just crazy with each and every book that we picked up and read.
-Got hooked on Jolt Cola

Group #3
John (my brother),Craig,Paul, later added Joe (my future brother in-law), Art joined at the end.
After High school ended people went to college and/or got jobs and went other ways in life, I met a girl and my love of gaming got my future brother in-law hooked on it, he was 16 at the time.
We played in my parents basement, every other Sunday for 4 or so years.
Memorial occurrence
-Playing all the big modules (against the giants, demon web pits, temple of elemental evil, we played them all.
-Having the halfling thief trapped in the temple of elemental evil using open locks to lock the doors in the room and resting with 3 dead player bodies till he healed and died trying to get out of the dungeon.

Group#4
Craig,Paul,Art,Joe
We moved the game to Art's apartment.
Gaming every other Sunday for 3+ years was fun with this group, this group played everything but D&D, this is the mid 90's and Vampire the masquerade, Werewolf the apocalypse, Rifts and Gurps was the order of the day.
This group fell apart due to marriage,me opening a business and life.
Memorial occurrence
-My brother quest starred one session and gave us a split personality wizard & fighter that changed every time he saw a flame. (Gurps)
-Joe jumping off a 20 story building landing, failing his hunger rolls in a Vampire game and killing 3 homeless people in the alley as he fled the city as he gave himself away.
-Paul getting a Tattoo of his werewolf character as he loved the theme of the game so much.
-Joe making a simple wizard in Rifts become a mega mad mage that was resistant to energy.

Group#5
Dan,Reuben,Joe,Paul,Mike (later replaced Paul)
At this time I had not gamed for a few years as I started a hobby store with my brother and we both applied and got really good jobs, We closed the store after 4 years of business.
At the end of it two new friends that I have been playing too much Warhammer Fantasy came to understanding that we also had a love of RPG's as well.
We started playing at Dan's house, one Sunday we RPGed and the next we played Warhammer Fantasy.
This is the time of D&D 3e, we bought it and started rolling dice again. To date this was the longest group I played with and lasted 6+ years.
Memorial occurrence
-Joe having a breakdown (not a real one) when his character died, after a 10 minute cool down he announced he was dropping out to go to teachers college anyway so it was fitting the way it happened. The group disbanded after this.
-Mike having a similar breakdown (not a real one) when the sorcerer and wizard spent four rounds buffing each other, while the fighter and cleric died to hill giants
-Paul leaving the group to start a business, I miss Paul. I only gamed with him but this was the last time I gamed with him and still have found memories of fighting the bad guys with him.
-Playing some NEW cool adventures, we really took to the game, sunless citadel, forge of fury, red hand of doom, etc,etc....


gaming group history part 2

Monday, 27 May 2019

New Year Gaming Resolutions

Wow, I did not make a resolution this year? I did it was a 10 year goal.

Let's define it farther.

I want to finish a
-Starfinder adventure path (2 years)
-Pathfinder 1e adventure path (2 and a half years)
-Pathfinder 2e adventure path (2 and a half years)

7 years planned.With smaller of other games between those three campaigns my ten year goal looks fun. Again these may not be only my decision as the group has to vote on it as well.

With my second Dungeons & Dragons 5e campaign ending (in or around) ten months, those are my three wishes as I have only made it to book 5 in a pathfinder 1e game group fell apart and we moved on the 5e.


Monday, 20 May 2019

Kobold Press

I have purchased and used these two books in my 5th edition campaign and I strongly recommend purchasing them.





These are great books and useful for D&D 5e encounter building.
Have yet to read the Midgard worldbook and the Midgard Hero's handbook, but like what I see in the Hero's handbook so far.



Thursday, 16 May 2019

Wraith & Glory

Figures.

I just purchased the Warhammer 40K Warith & Glory RPG corerule book months ago and three days ago the starter boxed set.
Today Cubicle 7 will be taking over the reigns from Ulisses. I have a feeling my books are obsolete now. Glad I waited for Shadowrun 5e as 6e was announced a week ago.


Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Session Reports

Really behind on these. I need to step it up. Currently behind 6 sessions reports๐Ÿ˜Ÿ maybe a few more?


T Minus 24 sessions till campaign ends.

This is an approximate number, it maybe more or less depending on the outcome of are adventuring cast.

Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Healing Potions

The internet is a buzz with potion bottles with dice in them, used as Healing potion for players to drink (alcoholic drinks) and also ones with dice in them.

I did a cheap version of it for my players, plus did it for cure wounds used green for the druid and blue for the cleric.. They enjoyed it all of one session. Used only the healing potion.
I like the concept but you can't make someone use other dice ๐Ÿ˜


Monday, 13 May 2019

Character Development

Character Development

With the next player about to get part of his character development played out I tend to give the players options on following the current path or going off the rails.

This is taken from the back of the Pathfinder module Down the blighted path. Some of it has changed to follow my derailment of the current path of the adventures.

"Descendants of the Ironblood clan are vanishing, dragged screaming into the darkness by the animated bodies of their fallen kin. The Darkwoods and their hometown of Davarn need heroes to break this family curse. What mysteries lie sealed within Delbera Darkwoods
ancient abandoned fortress? And what challenges lurk along the Blighted
Path winding through the Darklands beneath Golarion’s surface?"



I will use this to make the Ironbloods cursed from what Ulfgar Darkwood did years ago to betray the Ironblood clan,By using elements from an exsisting module and converting it to what you need is a simple way to use the tools avaialabe to make the work load smaller for a D.M/G.M.

Sunday, 12 May 2019

Ghosts of Saltmarsh

with Ghosts of Saltmarsh pre-ordered I wish I had this 3+ years ago when I ran the same adventures.

But that is the power of D&D 5e the simplicity of the system allows quick adaptation on the fly or with little work to convert old module to the current rules system.


Tales from the Yawning portal is a current favourite of mine for 5e as it took old things I did and made them new, I will admit I have not read to many adventures that has been published for 5e.

Friday, 10 May 2019

Mokmurian

Mokmurian my big bad guy the party will fight soon


Mokmurian Stone Giant Wizard (11th level)
Large giant, neutral
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 170 (lld12 +55+44)
Speed 40ft.
STR
23 (+6)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
20 (+5)
INT
18 (+4)
CHA
15 (+2)
Saving Throws Dex +5, Con +8, Wis +4
Skills Athletics +12, Perception +4
WIS
12 (+1)
Senses darkvision 60ft., passive Perception 14
Languages Giant
Challenge 14 (2,900 XP)

Stone Camouflage. The giant has advantage on Dexterity
(Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.

Innate Spellcasting. Mokmurian innate spellcasting ability is
Constitution (spell save DC 16). He can innately cast the
following spell, requiring no material components:
1/day:
pass without trace
earth tremor (cast at level 2)
erupting earth

Spellcasting. Mokmurian is an 11th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting
ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15, +8 to hit with spell
attacks). He knows the following wizard spells:
Cantrips (at will): acid splash, blade ward, friends, light,
message, mold earth
1st level (4 slots): chromatic orb, mage armor, magic missile
2nd level (3 slots): Maximilian's earthen grasp,
shatter, suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, erupting earth
4th level (3 slots): polymorph, stoneskin
5th level (2 slots): wall of stone
6th level (1 slot): move earth

Earthen Defeat. When Mokmurian drops to 0 hit points, his body
transforms into mud and collapses into a pool. Anything he is
wearing or carrying is left behind.

Earth Passage. Mokmurian can move in difficult terrain composed
of anything made from earth or stone as if it were normal
terrain. He can move through solid earth and rock as if it were
difficult terrain. If he ends his turn there, he is shunted into the
nearest space he last occupied.

Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Mokmurian fails a saving throw, he
can choose to succeed instead.

ACTIONS
Multiattack. The giant makes two greatclub attacks.
Greatclub. Melee Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, reach 10ft., one
target. Hit: 19 (3d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage.
Rock. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10 to hit, range 60/240 ft., one
target. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6) bludgeoning damage. If the target is a
creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or
be knocked prone.
REACTIONS
Rock Catching. If a rock or similar object is hurled at the giant,
the giant can , with a successful DC 10 Dexterity saving throw,
catch the missile and take no bludgeoning damage from it.

Lair Actions
Mokmurian can take lair actions. On initiative count
20 (losing initiative ties), Mokmurian uses a lair action to
cast earthquake without using components. As long as
he maintains concentration on earthquake, initiative
count 20 is the start of Marlos’s turn for the purpose
of the spell. He can take no other lair actions while
concentrating on earthquake.
Mokmurian second option for a lair action is to draw
power from the earth node to heal. When he does so, he
regains 30 (6d8 + 3) hit points.

Legendary Actions
Mokmurian can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the
options below. Only one legendary action option can be used
at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Mokmurian                                              regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Detect. Mokmurian makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.                                                              Melee attack. Mokmurian can make a melee attack.
Swift Spell (Costs 2 Actions). Mokmurian centers a erupting earth spell
on himself or up to 120 feet away, cast for free and if centered on himself
cast for free.