Dungeons and Dragons Encounters

2016-01-21

Podcast-- Game School #6: A Red and Pleasant Land

Game School talks with Zak S about the game A Red and Pleasant Land.

Here is the official blurb:

R&PL is an old school D&D supplement that allows you to play in a world similar to Alice in Wonderland. It is horrific and bizarre in all the right ways. The game book is beautiful and full of everything you’ll need along with some very novel ideas. Zak runs Satine through an encounter on a battlefield that is paralyzed in time and being observed by a vampire and his minions. She will find that they are not friendly and will have to use her wits if she wishes to survive. Will she survive the encounter or will the vampire take her to his dungeon? You’ll have to listen to find out.

Zak is fantastic on this--clear description of the game, his design motivation is wonderful, & the mini adventure he runs is playful and great. Satine does a great job playing along.

As always, Chad is a wonderful interviewer and really presents this material in the best possible way. A great episode...

2016-01-05

eSports Arena Hearthstone Tournament

Jack & I went to eSports Arena in Santa Ana for the $500 Hearthstone tournament.

Jack was on fire and excited to play--first round he played one of the better players who crushed in him two games.

The second match was also a stomping by Mike, who was actually super friendly about it, but Jack started off 0-2 which is never fun.

Round three was also a loss, but he did much better.

The eSports Arena is an absolutely amazing venue--clean, state of the art, very fan friendly. The twitch live stream was also fantastic--MC's were funny & the games that were show cased were fantastic.