We skipped a week but it wasn't for health reasons so that was something new. I think every game that people missed in the past 6 months before this one was due to health reasons for someone ( Read more... )

The game continued with the PCs in Phili. I think they believe it went to easy, but the players did what they needed to do. They did research, found a contact, got the contact to give them the information they needed, and then came up with a good plan. I didn't punish them by making them roll dice for most of it. The only purpose for rolling ( Read more... )

The title fits for two reasons. The first is that the blog is coming back to life after a few months absence. Secondly the new campaign we started last week's first adventure has strong references to the classic Mary Shelley book. The blog will focus more on the RPG elements of the weekly game and none on the mammoth amount of books I read. ( Read more... )

This was the travel portion of the adventure. I didn't do any random encounters but the set encounters really felt like random encounters. We did it over Skype which in my mind is always a strike against a good session and with busy work, work, and school I didn't have the time to enhance or make the book much better. I can see now why many ( Read more... )

This session helped build more of the second book in the series. I had the group go out and find a guide and to do that we used that as it turned out mediocre module River into Darkness. The module idea is good and I liked the used of a magical boat to basically make it a steam boat. The encounters though going up the river were kind of random ( Read more... )

The final session on the island. I knew it was going to be short as there was not a left to do there but I also lately have really not liked the idea of just adding frivolous encounters just to take up time. They had place left on the island to deal with and so it made it for an easy start with no need for the players to try to plan out the ( Read more... )

This session say three of the four players. One guy was sick and so we decided to game by Skype but the sick player didn't even feel well enough to do that. I had been making the NPCs roles more transparent allowing the PCs to use them more and that worked out well. At the beginning of the session one PC and two NPCs went out for a few days of ( Read more... )

Last week we gamed longer then normal and had only two of the four players there so we got through a lot. We also got a good amount of things done on the boards so I'm declaring it two sessions for purpose of session counting ( Read more... )

Last week we started the Serpent Skull AP. I'm doing things a bit differently by allowing the players the option of keeping their 10th level character from Council of Thieves or starting a new character at level 1. One player started a new character and I think everyone was shocked but how challenging the first adventure was even though it is for ( Read more... )

And thus it ends. Not with a whimper but with a bang. It was a night of some set up and stalling by me till we neared the end of the session so I could spring on the big fight. There were no surprises even though I made it less obvious then the Adventure Path ( Read more... )