My second "convention"

Well, we don't really have conventions down here, but as I once said here, I like how it sounds. :)

I had prepared a Labyrinth Lord adventure and was really excited about DMing again for people that are not my regular players. But things not always go as you plan.

I should have been there earlier, because upon arriving there were already five tables, four of them (D&D 3.5e, Transformers, Marvel Heroes and Dresden Files) were full with 5 or 6 players each, and one with only two players. Since it looked there weren't any more people coming, I decided to join this last table.

The setting was Tron: Uprising using tweaked Mutants & Masterminds rules. Being familiar with the setting only through the movies Tron and Tron Legacy (TIL there were also comics and series), I must say I enjoyed it very much. It was an infiltration mission: hack someones's identity disc, get into a spaceship, retrieve some information from it and sabotage some tanks it was carrying as a cover-up. We finished early because we chickened out and skipped the fight with the boss. Why fight if we already have the information we came for?

I proposed then a short LL game, but two guys wanted to try The Day After Ragnarok so, never having played it, I tagged along. A group of 4 mercenaries, working for MI6, sail to an island, in Japanese occupied SE Asia, to retrieve the blueprints of some WMD from an abandoned base. The side of the island we arrived was littered with shipwrecks so I suggested to circle it. "Since I've been running this adventure no one ever suggested that!", laughed the DM. Upon turning the eastern cape we saw a Japanese destroyer anchored and quickly turned back, anchored between the shipwrecks and went ashore. We found a crazy old Nazi scientist which we interrogated and learned where the base was. He tried to drug us with some food, then escaped, he was then shot, captured and killed. We found the abandoned base deep in the jungle: barracks, labs and office buildings, an airfield and a huge hangar laid there deserted. We approached the hangar and were met with gunfire from the inside. Retreated to the tree line chased by Japanese troops and a German mechwarrior. We managed to escape back to the boat and away from the island.

The bad: I couldn't DM and get my LL Society points.

The good: I had the chance to play two games I haven't played before.

Seasons Greetings

Thanks +Wayne Snyder, fellow adventurer from Thursday's hangout DCC game!

The Hairy Wizard Formerly Known As Ian The Minstrel

Yes, I couldn't come up with a suitable name, so that's it. He's the survivor of my DCC funnel for the "Return to the Crypt of the Lizard King" adventure, which you can read about here and here on +Edgar Johnson blog. 

He's a chaotic cultist devoted to the Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad, which you can read about here, on +Adam Muszkiewicz blog, who is now DMing the "Slaves of the Silicon God" adventure. 

He wears a purple robe embroidered with golden tentacles, wears the Helm of the Lizard King and is very hairy, thanks to the mercurial effect of 1'' of all body hair growth every time he casts Sleep. Lately he's been experimenting the effects of powdered space tentacle. Will he get a ticket for CUI (casting under influence)?

We're in the city of Ur-Hadad, after exploring a ruined temple in the jungle, that was inhabited by some curiously intelligent ape-men. Let's see what the Metal Gods and +Edgar Johnson has prepared in the near future, when we explore the  "Mysterious Temple of the Serpent God"...

Thanks to +Bear Philippe for the picture.

STR 5, AGI 14, STA 10, PER 10, INT 18, LCK 7

EDIT: He became Formerly Ian after all the corruption he suffered through different adventures: hairy, eyes of different color, legs of different length, wobbly legs, sores and more.

EDIT2: He became Formerly Formerly Ian after magically healing all corruption and reverting to his original form.

EDIT3: He appeared on the back of the second issue of the Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad zine drawn by +Wayne Snyder. It was also in a tshirt and stickers.

Shakespeare Insult Kit Roller

"Thou !"

EDIT: Download the html here!"

Shakespeare Insult Kit

Will certainly use this with my DCC wizard. :)

To create a Shakespearean insult roll 3d50 and combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou":

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
1	artless	base-court	apple-john
2	bawdy	bat-fowling	baggage
3	beslubbering	beef-witted	barnacle
4	bootless	beetle-headed	bladder
5	churlish	boil-brained	boar-pig
6	cockered	clapper-clawed	bugbear
7	clouted	clay-brained	bum-bailey
8	craven	common-kissing	canker-blossom
9	currish	crook-pated	clack-dish
10	dankish	dismal-dreaming	clotpole
11	dissembling	dizzy-eyed	coxcomb
12	droning	doghearted	codpiece
13	errant	dread-bolted	death-token
14	fawning	earth-vexing	dewberry
15	fobbing	elf-skinned	flap-dragon
16	froward	fat-kidneyed	flax-wench
17	frothy	fen-sucked	flirt-gill
18	clocking	flap-mouthed	foot-licker
19	goatish	fly-bitten	fustilarian
20	gorbellied	folly-fallen	giglet
21	impertinent	fool-born	gudgeon
22	infectious	full-gorged	haggard
23	jarring	guts-griping	harpy
24	loggerheaded	half-faced	hedge-pig
25	lumpish	hasty-witted	horn-beast
26	mammering	hedge-born	hugger-mugger
27	mangled	hell-hated	joithead
28	mewling	idle-headed	lewdster
29	paunchy	ill-breeding	lout
30	pribbling	ill-nurtured	maggot-pie
31	puking	knotty-pated	malt-worm
32	puny	milk-livered	mammet
33	quailing	motley-minded	measie
34	rank	onion-eyed	minnow
35	reeky	plume-plucked	miscreant
36	roguish	pottle-deep	moldwarp
37	ruttish	pox-marked	mumble-news
38	saucy	reeling-ripe	nut-hook
39	spleeny	rough-hewn	pigeon-egg
40	spongy	rude-growing	pignut
41	surly	rump-fed	puttock
42	tottering	shard-borne	pumpion
43	unmuzzled	sheep-biting	ratsbane
44	vain	spur-galled	scut
45	venomed	swag-bellied	skainsmate
46	villainous	tardy-gaited	strumpet
47	warped	tickle-brained	varlot
48	wayward	toad-spotted	vassal
49	weedy	unchin-snouted	whey-face
50	yeasty	weather-bitten	wagtail

From http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mayxidtQo51rcikrto1_1280.jpg

Thanks Joey Lindsey on G+ for digging this up.

EDIT: Download it here!