2014-07-17
Doesn't Golem Mean Clay Golem? Dead in Thay--D&D Encounters S18 S10
Fun night of encounters--we started by picking up Andy who is new to the group....
Brian got his Garruk picture taken
Winning!
Jack attacked me during the shoot & thus came out blurry as I ducked the axe
DM Scott was fired up and ran a great table
I was in video mode for the first shot--this is meme worthy!
Jack had a good time.
Brian's Druid is still dominating the control game
Nathan joined our table & was fantastic--he has two new babies and it was really fun to get to know him.
Will was also new & a very old school experienced player--made our table a blast.
I had a lot of space on top of the table
and even under the table
We had fantastic skittles
Doc is still ruling
The encounters were fun
and Scott's use of mini's is clever
And some great Iconic map drawing
The Halfling Female Fighter has an extended crit range and snuck on in on the first roll!
I also got a list of metal bands from the kid that works the counter--I am in the process of checking these out
- Death-Symbolic
- Opeth-Blackwater Park
- Anciients-Heart of Oak
- Heathen-Victims of Deception
- Artillery-By Inheritance
- Blind Guardian-At the Edge of Time
- Symphony X-The Diving Wings of Tragedy
- Vektor-Black Futured
- Sacramentum-The Coming Chaos
- Kronos-The Hellenic Terror
- Atheist-Unquesfionable presence
- Torik-World Circus
2014-07-16
The Tome Show--The Sentinel Part 1 (Book Club)
Jeff, Eric, & Tracy talk Sentinel.
One of these days the WotC Novel Club & the Tome Show Book club will read the same book and it will be awesome.
Jeff is in the zone in this episode with his Realm's knowledge.
Tracy seems to struggle a little--when her traditional gender role arguments fall flat she brings up the virgin / harlot archetype for no apparent reason. Classic example of applying theory without understanding. Jeff handles it very well by letting her talk it out & then stating that he has not had that experience. In any event, I am very interested in how she deals with the end of this one.
Eric is basically a Candlekeep research assistant on this one & does not really add all that much.
They are enjoying this book a lot more than I did--I loved Troy's Dark Sun stuff, but this book really fell flat for me. Nevertheless, I am still very glad that they are reading and discussing D&D Novels.
HASTE! Game Night Noms, Subraces, Dungeon World, and Using 3rd Party Materials
Another fun episode of the HASTE podcast.
The topics were awesome RPG staples, but the hosts seemed a little tired and not really on their A game. A good general episode, but not one of the best.
The food was very simple & not a lot of new thinking--disappointed they could not come up with something better then the guys on Reddit.
Keith Baker on subraces was a good conversation.
The other systems do x better conversation with regards to Dungeon World was not that interesting to me--I believe it is the players that matter--good players make horrible systems awesome.
The Third Party Supplements conversation was strange--the fact that they did not know about the abundance of stuff that is coming out weekly for just about every system--Pathfinder & Numenera stuff is particularly strong leads me to think that perhaps they are not as connected to the hobby as they may have once been--we all move away from our Hobbies from time to time & I fear they may be in one of those slumps.
Also, this episode seemed longer then normal for no real good reason. I think that this was just an off episode for me & that they will return to their past glory in the next episode or two--once they start talking about D&D Next more, probably.
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