Three weeks after the last session, we got back together for a new session of our 4th ed D&D game. Seriously, that's almost exactly like a regular timetable! It can't last, I know, but we took advantage of the alignment of the stars to reshuffle the plot hooks, work out some plans and foreshadow like a motherfucker.

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April is generally the cruellest month, and by that I mean it's the time when Comedy Festival not only eats away at my spare time but completely eliminates that of some of my friends - friends and fellow roleplayers to boot.

All of which means that April isn't a month for gaming round these parts, at least not until the very end. Which, of course, ( Read more... )

February has shaped up as Gaming Month here at Casa del Artbroken, almost to the point where it's exhausting.

Ah, who am I kidding, I love it.

There was a long-delayed session of Tribulation earlier in the month (and I'll post a write-up soon for everyone that's been gagging to see what's happening there), a session of Hero's Banner with mousebane that we ( Read more... )

Oh wait, I know what I can write about on LiveJournal: roleplaying!

Once again there's been a three-month gap between sessions of our D&D campaign, during which times players went overseas and came back and I got married. And yet, in the game, perhaps only five minutes passed by. There's something metatextually interesting in that, but let's gloss ( Read more... )

Has it really been nearly three months since our last Exile Empire D&D session? Good grief, it has. I blame myself and all the blogging I've been doing eating up my precious Sundays. Well, that and players not being able to make it.

But yesterday the planets aligned, most everyone was in town and we had a few hours before people had to skedaddle, ( Read more... )

Because this is my low-stress weekend off, I've taken a bit of spare time (okay, about 4-5 hours) catching up on something I've meant to do for ages - updating the Obsidian Portal page and wiki for my Exile Empire campaign.

If you're interested in the game, go have a look - lots of new wiki pages for campaign elements and NPCs, along with art, and ( Read more... )

So, having whinged about being stressed and overtired and getting no time to relax, I spent Sunday running D&D for the gang and thus relaxing. And I'm glad I did. If only I could play D&D every day. Which I pretty much did in my very early 20s, come to think of it. Oh, the memories.

Anyway, we got together for a session of investigation, planning ( Read more... )

What's that? You think this LJ is becoming devoid of real content, and is just a space where I talk about nerd stuff that no-one else cares about?

...well, you're gonna hate this post, then, 'cos it's just me talking about yesterday's D&D session.

Details behind the cut.

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But my weekend wasn't just taken up with fiddling with website settings and flying to Sydney to talk about maths textbooks. It also involved a session of Exile Empire, with a special session focusing on just fengshuiguy and damien_wise (with barrington helping out undercover ( Read more... )

What? Just two weeks between D&D sessions? Inconceivable!

And yet we somehow got together yesterday to pick up from last session's rushed ending, segueing into a quick aside that brought in a few new ideas, showcased an exotic location, and had a half-elf teleport onto the head of a giant demon to stab it in the eye.

Details behind the cut.

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