(To the tune of “We Didn’t Start the Fire…” by Billy Joel)

Celedras, Arcangalad

Arshan’s always kinda mad

I haven’t played you for a while

Obsidian kills her foes with style

Maedhroc gives his foes the boot

Elsa’s tough but awfully cute

1E rules are dumb and hard

but they made my super-bard

(Singin’)

Referees don’t get to play much
We get all ( Read more... )

Okay, it's not that dark. And it's also not that secret. But here it is anyway:

I don't want to be the DM.

I mean, I do sometimes, sure. I've been a DM fairly regularly since 1981 or so, so I must get something out of it. I even have a Gamemastering Credo. But the thing is, the reason I'm usually the DM is not because that's what I want out of ( Read more... )

Woke up at oh-dark-thirty from the most explicitly Lovecraftian dream I can remember having- not just in the sense that it contained otherworldly monstrous horrors (which it did), but also in that the true horror was not at what the dream showed as what it implied. For all the corn of reading a Lovecraft story, that sh!t's pretty darn scary when it ( Read more... )

Our gaming group meets from 0-3 times per month, probably averaging around 1.5 times. There are two regular GMs, of which I am the GM about 65-70% of the time. The net result is that I get to be a player about five to seven sessions total in any given year ( Read more... )

jamesbarrett continued his campaign tonight, our second session post-5E transition. This one was fairly short, consisting mostly of poking around places we didn't belong and discovering several traps and the corpses of the adventuring party that came in ahead of us as we searched for the missing smuggler "Shanks" and his crew in the recently-unearthed ( Read more... )

Done as an exercise in system mastery.

Obsidian
Medium humanoid (drow) bard 5, neutral

Proficiency Bonus +3
Armor Class 15 (bracers of defense)
Hit Points 33 (5d8+5)
Speed 30'

STR 8/-1, DEX 14/+2, CON 12/+1, INT 17/+3, WIS 10/+0, CHA 17/+3
Saving Throws Dexterity +5, Charisma +6
Skills Acrobatics +5, Arcana +6, Deception +6, Insight +3, ( Read more... )

Another session of jamesbarrett's Pathfinder game tonight, featuring my Rarity-as-drow-bard Obsidian. She is starting to wonder if maybe she's safer down in dungeons, considering that while she was in town her jewelry store was broken into three times over the course of four days ( Read more... )

Last night was a great night for Obsidian, my very stylish, whip-wielding drow bard. Confronted with a bound demon, whose millennia-old binding spells were coming unraveled, the group found themselves in a very tight spot ( Read more... )

I have, over the past few months, been endeavoring to reclaim my hobbies again. With all the "stuff you just have to deal with" going on, things that I actually enjoyed were one by one falling off the plate leaving me in a "just existing, not really living" state. This was at its worst in the early and middle parts of last year, but it took me a ( Read more... )

I should really be working, but for some reason today I'm obsessing on Obsidian, my drow bard, and all the cool stuff I'd like to be doing with her. This started last night when a story featuring her popped unbidden into my head, and that's been poking at me to write it all day (NO, brain! NO WRITING TODAY! CODING TODAY!). That has segued into ( Read more... )