Three Headed Tuesday Dragon

Another Tuesday & the muffins are out!

Jack & I are currently vegan, which obviously explains our advanced play, but also prevents us from enjoying muffins--so we went Hash Browns!

Cooked in Peanut Oil!

I had my deck ready

And so did Matt

Who is playing like a complete baller these days--definitely the most improved player at Tuesday



Andrew is playing giant monsters. Still. But he does have Rush Tickets for July, so he is stoked!

Preston is playing some amazingly complicated deck

Jack is playing red & having fun for the first time in a while--even if he cannot beat me!

Derek's Sultai deck has really come together

We played Two Headed Giant with three players--kind of silly, but more fun then repeating the same matches we played last week--our meta has not changed since pre-release!

I was able to control Andrew's early game, which allowed Derek and Preston to come over the top for the end game & we won easily.

The muffins were destroyed as well!

Sunday King of Tokyo

 Cut up some apples & sat down to play some King of Tokyo with Cody.

Cody likely enjoys setting this Game up as much as actually playing!

We played a tag team variant that he invented--not really sure what the rules are.

But we had a blast beating on each other!

Planning Hoard of the Dragon Queen--D&D Encounters S19 S18

Rodney Thompson wrote a great article on how to prepare to run a D&D Session. I thought I would use his ideas to prepare for this weeks D&D Encounters.

When I started this, I thought it would be a fun little exercise, but it turned into a very disappointing reflection on what a bad job I have been doing DM'ing this season--not enough prep time, too many missed sessions, season was too long, etc.

I look foreword to being a player next season.

Main Adventure

Hoard of the Dragon Queen Final Chapter. The Cloud Castle. Lots of Boss's and fighting--some exploration. Key is to thwart the delivery of the gold--maybe capture the castle. They need to get to the Dragon before next week.

Interludes

The Vampire is old school Cult of the Dragon and likes dragolich's and stuff. The Giant are all about restoring the past even if that includes working with Draconic enemies--they treat dwarves as slaves. He misses his wife, alludes to her still directing his life, and is odd. Rezmir will escape when confronted. The Red Thay guys need to have a lot of books and be up to total no good--they are very very evil. Four Factions [Cult of Dragon, Old Cult of Dragon, Red Wizards, and Giant] should be more than enough for this week.

Character Story Arc

The dwarf cleric is confused. The wizards are cocky. The fighters are overly confident. The wyverns are awesome transport. I need to get the guilds more involved--Harpers are trying to steal the treasure--Robin Hooding it from the Lords Alliance, basically. Emerald Enclave needs the books that the Red Wizards have. The Factions need to get more involved this week--which faction will win the gold is the theme I need to start developing this week...

World Texture

More magic. More Mayhem. More of Elminster's realms.

NPC Texture

Giant. Rezmir. Vampire. X the White [he is a Harper]. Red Wizards.

Random Encounter

None--way to much going on already.

Recap

Last week The Party got on the Cloud Castle in search for the Treasure being moved north by the Dragon Cult. Where is it going? Why a Giant? What is going on?

Gotham--Preston Enjoys Option Three!

Broken Oven

This morning our oven was not working and so Lisa had to go to the Bauhofers to make muffins...did not matter I still rolled Box Cars to start off against Matt in the Abzan Mirror!

While we played, Preston watched last nights Gotham--Option Three! 

And then Matt ended up killing me in a fairly silly game.

We did have two rules questions

• Can you Banishing Light the Torin's Emblem?

we voted no.

• Does Hexproof prevent the emblem from making you sacrifice Fleece Mane Lion?

we voted no.