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2015-04-09

Wynmeth is voted off the Island! Elemental Evil--D&D Encounters S20 S4


 Another great week of D&D Encounters at Comic Quest started with Chase taunting us from Hawaii


Luckily we had something with which to whip our tears from our eyes


Then I tried to take a Pano photo inside the room


which I always seem to have a hard time getting started


and seems to stop and just take a regular picture cause I am doing something wrong


and then when I get it does not really look as awesome as I had hoped.


Our table did look fantastic


I had some great Gamescience dice to make up for the recently stolen D20




Here are the theives dice--not the high number of unmatching D6's--which is likely the sign of a deeper problem...is there a specific word for Dice Kleptomania



In any event, the other players all have these awesome Dice towers, so I made one from a Pringles container


I tore the bottom off of another tube to make an angled plane that would kick the die out



It worked great

Jack and then tried to design a logo for the Bull Rushers. Here is his design--which is pretty great


My design is Bull Horns on Getty Lee, which I think is a winning combination even if I did not capture it very well


The adventure was fantastic--with Six Very different PCs and players.


Our Trojan Horse wagon adventure to capture the bandits worked very well


but in the end, my PC--the great Deep Gnome Bard Sage Wynmeth was voted off the island Survivor Style...Great fun.


2015-04-08

D&D Podcast ORGANIZED PLAY: ELEMENTAL EVIL review


Another fantastic Podcast featuring Shelly & Bart!

This one focused on something I am actually very interested in, so I may have loved it more than normal. 



Chris Tulach and Chris Lindsay are awesome guests who not only provide a ton of great content & insight into the Adventure League, highlighting several of the upcoming changes, and are just generally awesome representatives of D&D.

The name of Demogorgon's heads (Aameul  & Hethradiah) is discussed--but they do not resolve the eternal conflict of which is which in the below picture.




The Location of Tiamet's brains is reviewed--I had never actually thought about this--I had always assumed that each head operated kind of independently based on its nature & that she was the collection of those actions...but a central mind does make a lot more sense...I will work on this one...



There are some great quotes--Shelly's "don't speak for me" is hilarious, but I think defining PC as Plot Corrupter is absolute gold.

I strongly recommend that you listen to this one.

2015-04-07

THE ROLE OF LOCAL COORDINATORS IN THE D&D ADVENTURERS LEAGUE

Here is a good article on the role of a LC in the AL.

The basic break down is 

  1. Social Media
  2. Store Support
  3. Convention Support
  4. Supporting players, DMs, Organizers, & Store Owners
  5. Playing & DMing
and then there is a separate section on LC's not being the police and do not make the rules, which I really appreciate.

Extra Life Orange County Guild Meeting


Last night there was a Guild meeting at the Art Institute building right next to my work. 

This was awesome not only because it was so close, but because I ran into Brian!


The meeting itself was good--the event is a long time off so a lot of the discussion is still around early planning, but it looks like this year will be even bigger than last year.

I have created the Tuesday page, but do not plan to get the boys started in their fund raising until Summer time. 

The T-Shirt design contest has been extended.

The Pod-Cast is being updated.

There is a D&D Game being scheduled for Mike's house on 05/09/2015.

All in all, another great Guild meeting.



2015-04-06

Princes of the Apocalypse

Chris Perkins tweeted images of the Princes of the Apocalypse which I have collected below.

 AERISI KALINOTH, the Air Prophet. Likes: tweeting, unicorns, princess stuff. Dislikes: dwarves, dirt.


GAR SHATTERKEEL, the Water Prophet. Likes: lobster, walks on beaches. Dislikes: roasted marshmallows.

VANIFER, the Fire Prophet. Likes: dancing, firefighters, burnin' down the house. Dislikes: fish.

MARLOS URNRAYLE, the Earth Prophet. Likes: classic rock, snakes, getting stoned. Dislikes: mirrors.