Curse of Strahd--D&D Encounters S22 S2

Another great week of D&D Encounters at Kingslayer Comics!

It was the night before St Patrick's Day & Brett brought cookies to share. Totally awesome.

I had seven players at my table--Jack, Brett, Joel, Melissa, Josh, Dante, and new girl--a surprisingly well balanced group with rouge, fighter, paladin, cleric, wizard, sorcerer, and ranger.

Party had a great time with the roll play which was really fun to see.

It was great to have Jack back! He got the only critical hit!

Curse of Strahd Campaign Site

I have started a Campaign Site for my Wednesday Night Curse of Strahd Game.

Mark Barrowcliffe, The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

 I think the idea that women might fancy good-looking, well-adjusted men who are nice to them is too much for the average fantasy-head to bear.

Actual Play Curse of Strahd--D&D Encounters S22 S1

Curse of Strahd--D&D Encounters S22 S1

This week was week two at Kingslayer Comics -- last week we did Character Creation. I had taken last season off of D&D Encounters [mostly because my wife found the material too scary], but also because I needed a bit of a creative break.

I am back behind the screen DM'ing for Curse of Strahd & I am ready to roll!

I loved the original Ravenloft stuff which dropped just at the end of my Bauhaus phase--I remember finding it fun and campy and that it lead nicely to my mockery of Vampire the Masquerade and all the Circles of Black which that brought to the D&D Community.

Kingslayer Comics where I am playing is fantastic--we had 12 players at two tables which was totally perfect. DM Kevin and I had developed a prequel adventure to get the players into the mood & make sure that they were comfortable with their role playing and general D&D mechanics.

It went really well--the players seemed very into it

There was some combat & we did use the Pathfinder iCrit and iFumble apps which are totally fantastic.

I had not planed on using mini's--but the players had come prepared and so we created some impromptu encounters which felt very old school to me--the 3x5 card is a platform, the blue skittles are drow, etc.