6 years ago, a group of us did a brief bout of old-style basic D&D, and this year we decided to continue the campaign started so long ago. Since we only played for a couple of hours back then, nobody could remember a single thing about who we were or what we'd been doing, but brief LJ posts from the time provided at least some clues. With this in ( Read more... )

We've been roleplaying all week. At one point, my character persuaded a notable NPC (formerly a brief stand-in PC) to doubt his life-long loyalty. This led very swiftly to his death. I promised that his name would live forever more. This is my promise kept.

( The ballad of Gyula, or The Song of the Urdish Men )

We spent Easter adventuring in Westeros - or, rather, Essos. This write-up will be of no interest at all to anyone who wasn't there - and of minimal interest to those who were, since, well, they were there. However, it's good to have a record for future reference.

( How to annoy people in Essos )

Some years ago, during a session of our intermittent, ongoing A Game of Thrones roleplaying campaign, our characters had cause to approach village full of suspicious wildings (collectively called Brians, on the grounds that they were all played by Brian Blessed. It turned out to be a bad idea to call them all Brians, since between one year and the ( Read more... )

We spent last week adventuring in the far reaches of space (or the not-so-far reaches of space, since Space is Big.) This was the continuation of the campaign we started two years ago, which culminated in a super-powerful Ancienty chap telling us that All The Things were at risk unless we joined him in his fight against The Destroyer. We decided ( Read more... )

I haven't yet got round to writing up last week's roleplaying adventures, fighting assorted horrors and secret societies with confusingly similar names on the Orient Express in an AU version of 1934. ("I didn't understand a single word of that," someone said at work, when I gave a brief summary of What I Did On My Holidays. Subsequent questions by ( Read more... )

We spent the long Easter weekend adventuring in Westeros, finally wrapping up the plot that started some six years ago. Despite many of us proving incapable of throwing any number that wasn't a 1, we managed to piece together the evidence and conclude that Balon Greyjoy was about to rebel against King Robert. In our part of the world, this was to ( Read more... )

Although I spent most of the week doing healthy and improving things outside in lovely scenery (*ahem*) we did spend a small amount of time lounging on cat-covered couches, eating cheese and throwing dice.

( Roleplaying )

This post is an attempt to convey the impression that I haven't just spent 9 days sitting on a couch eating cake.

( Pictures of Outside )

So, we've found a mysterious, deserted ship, full of dazzling technology the like of which we have never seen before, with vast corridors full of plants we have never seen before, and what do we focus on to the point of obsession? The toilet facilities. Some people probably don't deserve to be a roleplaying party. :-D