I finally got my tickets for some games at GaryCon XVI. Not all the games I wanted (diamond, platinum and gold badges got to pick first) but alas.
Since I started playing Dungeons & Dragons back there in 1987 I've had many characters. With some of them I played long-term campaigns and with others just a few sessions. With time I started playing other games than D&D. This blog is dedicated to all of them and the hours of fun we've had together. Here they are along with other musings...
Monday, February 26, 2024
GaryCon XVI Schedule
Monday, December 11, 2023
Loot!
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Kothar's tower
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Virtual Greyhawk Con 4 report
The caves under Cristal Springs |
It's a dead end! |
Halls of the Iron Golems |
Sunday, September 24, 2023
Back to F2F games
Yesterday I ran my first face-to-face game since the Covid-19 pandemic. One of my players, who lives in Mexico, is here in Uruguay for a month, so we're looking forward for more face-to-face games. The common feeling around the table, besides the joy of being gathered together, was "How much I missed rolling real dice!". We had one player remote on Meet on a laptop facing the map and miniatures.
The party (an 8th level Cavalier, a 9th level Magic-User, an 8th level Cleric of St. Cuthbert, a 9th level Thief-Acrobat and a 4th level Bard) is going through "G3 - Halls of the Fire Giant King". So far, they've managed to kill King Snurre, about 20 of his fire giants, as well as many of his hell hound pets. Out of spells and exhausted but alive, accompanied by a charmed gnoll, they've retired to a cave nearby to rest and recover.
A certain dwarf that witnessed the carnage that party made, decided to grab his gear and treasure, and leave the Halls along with the gnolls. An angry and mourning Queen Frupy will certainly muster the remaining forces and lay some nasty surprises for the intruders...
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Friday, June 30, 2023
Greyhawk campaign update
After running Robert J. Kuntz's "Dark Druids", module "I1 - Dwellers of the Forbidden City" and Carlos A. Lising's "A5 - Kill Marquessa!", the first two set in the Suss forest and the last one on the northern coast of the Pomarj, in which the party discovered clues, but not explored, of a lost Temple of the Eye, recovered the Urn, killed one of Markesa's clones and raided one of her strongholds (where they killed Sturm Bucholtz but Markesa managed to escape), they returned through Celene to their lands in Verbobonc. Oh, by the way, I made Markesa a drow, as if all her wickedness and evil were not enough.
During their stay in Celene they became acquainted, through Countess Tillahi, whom they've rescued from the Temple of Elemental Evil in the past, with Melf Brightflame. They left with them the Urn and a map they've captured from Markesa's stronghold for further study. Not long before they received a letter to travel back to Celene. Melf had devised the possible location of two other Temples of the Eye, one in the Jotens Mts. near SW Sterich and the other in the Hellfurnaces Mts. to the SW of the Yeomanry. The party agreed to investigate them and they traveled to the neighborhood of the first site through a magical mirror at Countess Tillahi's estate.
The idea behind the different Temples of the Eye (under the Temple of Elemental Evil, in the caverns of the Dark Druids, in the dungeons of the Steading of the Hill Giant Chief and bellow the Halls of the Fire Giant King) come, except the one in Dark Druids, from Greyhawk Grognard's series of posts about the Elder Elemental God.
Now I'm running a kind of "Return to..." of module "G1 - Steading of the Hill Giant Chief", in which the place above has been raided by a previous party and killed most of the giants (some escaped), and below the ogres and orcs revolted against the remaining giants and bugbears. The orcs chopped the heads of the hill giants and put them on pikes around the steading. This has been loosely inspired by a short fiction story called "Return to the Steading" by Bart Carroll that appeared on Dragon+ issue 11.
So far the party has killed the ogres, charmed one of the three orc leaders and bribed the other two with part of the ogre's treasure (mostly copper coins, copper ingots, cheap jewelry and false gems). That way the orcs, that are able miners, agreed to clear the path to the sealed temple. Meanwhile a frost giant envoy mounted on a mammoth and escorted with two winter wolves showed up with a message to Chief Nosra.
An epic battle ensued with the party victorious, although some gravely wounded, with one of the cavalier' retainer unconscious and his warhorse dead. The thief managed to decipher the message: a conclave of giant chieftains will take place next full moon in the Halls of King Snurre, and Chief Nosra should attend "using the gift and following the instructions". The party will now have to find out what that gift is and how to use it.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Greyhawk campaign update
Campaign continues with the addition of a new player character, Meriven Davers. She is a Patriarch of St. Cuthbert and also a veteran from the Temple of Elemental Evil in another campaign. Meriven is from Verbobonc and was assessing the situation on the Wild Coast when the party arrived to Narwell, travelling from Safeton on their way to their possessions in Hommlet, Nulb, Twilight Falls and Sobanwych.
I am running "Lord of the Scarlet Tide" from Dungeon Magazine #85 by James Jacobs. Even though it's an adventure for 3e, I'm using it anyway with a few alterations for 1e. I wanted to introduce the Underdark and its inhabitants (kuo-toa, drow, mind flayers and deep gnomes to name a few) to the players as a foreshadow of what's coming next.
The party have managed to reach an abandoned kuo-toa city and must now retrieve a powerful item from a temple dedicated to Bilbdoolpoolp to put an end to the deadly red tide that's affecting the town of Narwell.
Wednesday, December 08, 2021
Greyhawk campaign update
Monday, December 06, 2021
Virtual Greyhawk Con 2 recap
I've just found the time to write about the games I played at Virtual Greyhawk Con 2.
Friday - I played a gnoll druid named Tharakx in "Escape from the Vault of the Drow" run by DM Josh. The rest of the party were:
- Sifu, a dwarven paladin
- Elengos, an elven warlock
- Ourxrek, a gnoll fighter
- Grek, a troglodyte monk
- Krovas the Tall, a human fighter/thief from Safeton,
- Enoch Pratt, a human fighter from Hardby,
- Kred, a dwarven fighter,
- Taira Trelop, a female half-elf thief
- Pharmakeia, female assassin,
- Nivara, female fighter,
- Deleri Karv, male magic user,
- Veldrin, male fighter/magic user
- Against Tsathogga
- Baron's Gambit
- Grimmsgate
- Cyclopean Deeps Chapter 1
- Cyclopean Deeps Chapter 2
Monday, September 27, 2021
My Virtual Greyhawk Con 2 Schedule - update
Monday, August 16, 2021
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Update
Updated the content of the pages and will be posting about the many characters I've played since last post, back in 2018. Also about my ongoing Greyhawk campaign in which, after 3 years of playing, the party have achieved important goals.
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Patreon
- Castle Greyhawk. An ongoing fanfiction webcomic by Scott Casper and +Mike Bridges.
- Drink Spin Run. An RPG talkshow podcast by +Adam Muszkiewicz and +Donn Stroud.
- Hobbs & Friends of the OSR. +Jason Hobbs & Friends are creating RPG podcasts, zines, and other RPG related material
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Time to dust off this blog
- +Drink Spin Run - An RPG Talk Show Podcast awesome t-shirt finally arrived. (Mar. 2017)
- Received +Diogo Nogueira 'Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells' RPG after the first one got lost in the way. (Feb. 2017)
- Got my Sons of Gygax t-shirt. (Feb. 2017)
- Received +Doug Kovacs Sketchbook. (Nov. 2016)
- Received a WayneCon t-shirt and swag from +Wayne Snyder. (Sep. 2016)
- Revamped my 1-on-1 PBeM-style Greyhawk 5e campaign on Rizzoma.com. It is set in the Phostwood forest after the occupation of Tenh by the Stonefist barbarians and the forces of Iuz. My only player leads a band of warriors that make guerrilla warfare against the invaders.(Aug. 2016-present)
- Received an AS&SH boxed set I bought from +Michael Curtis. (Aug. 2016)
- Received my copy of 'Null Singularity' by +Steven Bean. (Jan. 2016)
- Also received +Richard LeBlanc CC1 - Creature Compendium that I won on the OSR Christmas Giveaway. (Jan. 2016)
- Received Taylor Frank's zine 'Dungeon Lord: The Wayne Con' issue. (Dec. 2015)
- Received some 'It's Wizard Time!' stickers from +Wayne Snyder. (Nov. 2015)
- Ran D&D for my nephews! (Nov. 2015)
- +James MacGeorge send me a copy and a t-shirt of 'Black Sun Death Crawl'. (Late 2015)
I'll try to post more frequntly from now on.
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Another site update
Wednesday nights games (OSR):
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Site Update
EDIT: Also received in the mail "The Art of Dragon Magazine"!
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Brom
He must be in his late 20's or early 30's, but you can't exactly tell because of his weathered skin. He keeps his beard short and carries his long oily black hair in a plait. He wars a leather armor with studded shoulders and carries a longsword, a longbow and a hunting spear.
- +Charles W played Orias the Toad, a Curmudgeon.
- +Chris Hales played Nack the Monk
- +Nathan Black played Henry the Fighter.
Friday, December 30, 2011
New Oerth Journal
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5851594/Downloads_Section/Oerth_Journal/OJ_26te.pdf
Enjoy!