Twenty-two. That was the number we had for the last Madison Traditional Gaming meetup, running from 10am to 5pm, on Saturday April 16th. Generally speaking, we’ve averaged somewhere between 8-15 people at previous meetups, but this time things seemed to work just right. One of the players in my Tuesday night D&D campaign, Nix, ran a… Continue reading 22 Adventurers
From English Russia – what does someone do when they really want historical miniatures? Well, they make them from plasticine. Cheap Soviet-era plasticine. Go check it out.
Adventuring in the Jakallan Underworld at Gary Con The Metamorphosis: Alpha game ended with Alpha, the AI in charge of the station, doing in the entire party because we had decided that the alien menace was, well, too menacing. I was able to get Jim Ward to sign my character sheet, which was very gracious… Continue reading The Garden of Weeping Snows at Gary Con
Okay, so I went to Gary Con this past weekend. My trip there was somewhat eventful: I had a tire go flat on my way there, which meant that I missed the morning round of events on Saturday. However, I was back by Noon to the Lodge at Geneva Ridge, and decided to take a… Continue reading I was caught metagaming by James Ward!
“He’s almost dead!” (i.e. a PC is somewhere between 0 and -something hit points)“Quick, bind his wounds!” (i.e. what you do when you have no cleric in the party) One of the things I’ve done in Aldwyr has been to allow for “binding wounds” – this involves post-combat action to bind up physical wounds so… Continue reading Binding Wounds
For just over a year, I’ve been running an OD&D game on a weekly basis. We’ve moved from one game store to another, gone from just one player to a group of six to nine players, and their characters have advanced to nearly fifth level. We’ve had several characters die, some in some very dramatic… Continue reading Now It Can Be Told…
Life’s been something of a roller-coaster. On the plus side: Madison Traditional Gaming has gotten rather successful. We will be celebrating our one year anniversary in September, with a special Meetup. There might even be door prizes! My Tuesday Night OD&D game is going well; I have six regular players and that seems to be… Continue reading Pluses and Minuses
There have been a miscellany of events taking place, in-game and out-of-game, that are worth mentioning: My Tuesday night Original D&D group expanded ever-so-briefly after WisCon 34 to a total of EIGHT players: Gene, Dave, Nix, Noelle, Clint, Tristan, and a cameo appearance by my friends Chris and Penny who had come from the UK for the convention and… Continue reading A Miscellany of Events
I remember having dinner with Dave in Florida, a few years ago. I was there for an academic conference, and he had taken me to a decent restaurant in Orlando. We discussed various projects he was involved in, and reminisced about adventures with the Thursday Night Group. He had mentioned just how much he enjoyed… Continue reading In Memoriam
The Starter Edition of Classic Traveller is now available FREE. Go get it and you will have Classic Traveller goodness to keep you adventuring for a long, long time. One small amount of advice: there are three (3) downloads – the main rules, the charts, and the adventures. You have to get them from the “My… Continue reading Starter Edition of Classic Traveller FREE
