Actual Play Curse of Strahd--D&D Encounters S22 S8

Jack did a usability study at Blizzard & I got to play Hearthstone in the Lobby.

Curse of Strahd--D&D Encounters S22 S8 P

On the drive to Kingslayer Comics this light came on...

 it was the gas cap indicator....The table set up was amazing.

We likely have more snack diversity then any other table in the history of D&D--skittles, chocolate, cherries, pop rocks, coffee, water, weird waters, carrots, star wars fruit chews, cheese--like lots of different kinds...it is getting out of hand.

The game continued with a slow slug fest & then got into some fun role playing.

I forgot my dice again & had to buy another set.

The players are having a very good time--not sure how great I am doing capturing the spirit of Boravia & Curse of Strahd, but I think we are doing fine.

Here is an amazing Dice Holder

And a unicorn horn

The Mini's are also getting better


There were some crits

The pathfinder iCrit and iFumble tables continue to bring me great joy.

Cannot wait until next week. 

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International TableTopDay 2016 Recap

International Table Top Day 2016 was not the huge hit that previous years had been--Team Schwarm had trouble finding shops that were actually particiapating this year--things just did not seem to be as organizied and it was not clear how to make chartible donations--rather then a celebration of table top, this year felt more like a promotion of Geek & Sundry which is not a bad thing at all, I really like the stuff that they do, but not what I was hoping for--I am looking for a global game day, which maybe is not the goal of TableTopDay?

In any event, we started with the game that started it all--Tsuro!

Cody like the Dragon's in Tsuro by the Sea and once again defeated me.

This lead directly into a game of Pillow War

which may not be a TableTop game, but is clearly one of the big games for us these days.

Next we played some X-Wing

We do not have enough ships OR enough understanding of the rules to really make this fun--we just fly around and blast each other--which is good, but not great.

After three table top games at home we went to Kingslayer Comics. KSC was doing more Magic-the Gathering Gameday stufff--scheduling TableTopDay and MtG Game days should be avoided in the future.

We started up a quick game of D&D

Continuing the game that Cody and Josh have been playing

I had a quick set up of the Kings Chamber, the Encounter with the Giant, the Kobold Betrayl, and the Princess Corruption--we got to the Giant before the kids got hungry and we left for food.

There were some fun Crits and some fun Fumbles

And we played with Travis, the shop owner's kid who was named Logan and really loved the Harry Potter pregen I had printed from Geek and Sundry Site.

After this we headed to Dice House Games! 

Tuan was on Fire--the shop was packed--but they had no TableTopDay stuff--evidently ~800 shops signed up & only 50 got boxes of promo stuff.

Jack and I drafted Shadows over Innistrad--sight unseen!

We had never seen the cards at all-we listened to Judge's Corner and Wedge on the drive down to figure out what was up...

I played a blue white spirits deck which did not really work.

 This was the only thing I won all night.

But it was great to be back at the best game shop in California playing Magic.