Throughout this month I got to
thinking a lot about role-playing -
largely because I was answering all the RPGaDay questions everyday…. And I DID actually get to run a few role-playing games! It's been too long since I ran a regular role-playing game, I do hope I'll get a campaign or two going in the fall.
4 August 2017 –
D&D5E/Primeval Thule
Didn’t really get going on the
gaming until Friday the fourth. Bruce came by to run his bi-weekly (in theory)
D&D5e/Primeval Thule game. We fought the Big Bad that was trying to summon
an Elder God. This finished off the current adventure.
Bruce is planning to wrap up the
campaign next month and then I’m going to be taking over as GM for a bit to
run… something else… possibly Tales from the Loop or one of the 40K RPGs (Only
War or Rogue Trader) or possibly a near future “Hard SF” campaign using some
home-brew rules.
7 August 2017 – Painting/KingDomino/Loonacy
In the afternoon we had a bit of
a painting party with some friends and got some miniatures painted!
Later in the evening we went
over to my folks place for supper and played a few games afterwards
Finnegan and I introduced Amanda
and my dad to Kingdomino. It was a oretty close game… I think I may have eked
out a victory because I had five crowns on a forest of seven or eight squares?!
My mom and The Girl played a
game of Loonacy while we played Kingdomino. After the game of Kingdomino they
joined us at the table and we all played a few rounds of Loonacy together.
9 August 2017 - Set
The Girl got out Set to play and
I joined her. I think we might be missing a card!? Dagnabbit!
10 August 2017 – ONLY WAR
Two friends of the kids came
over for the day on Thurday and I tried running them through a game of Only War
– using The Eleventh Hour a Free RPG Day quckstart rules and adventure
I’ve had for years. The adventure focuses on a small group of survivors whose
unit has been overrun by Orks and have to fight their way out from behind enemy
lines before the Imperial Navy destroys everything in an orbital bombardment.
They came over just after 9am.
By the time I’d explained the rules and the setting and started them off on
their mission with the background of the assault on the planet and how they
came to find themselves in the middle of an Ork fortress surrounded by heaps of
slain Orks and comrades alike. We got through the second “scene” – their first encounter
with the Orks – and I had to call it. This was around noon. The youngest was
bored out of his mind. Well, he was totally into it and excited WHEN IT WAS HIS
TURN, but as the slightest idle moment (i.e. when I was explaingin stuff or
other people were having their turns) he started dancing around the room
(literally) or climbing on the back of the couch, sitting upside down on the
couch, sliding off the couch, playing with dice, playing with markers, losing
dice and markers he was playing with under the couch… Finnegan and his older
brother were severely disappointed as they were TOTALLY INTO IT!
I have high hopes that we’ll be
able to play a campaign of this in the fall – well, at least with two older
boys. The Girl seemed less interested, but suggested she’d have more fun if she
got to make her OWN character (I was using pre-gens so we could just leap into
the action) also she was sitting next to the younger brother and found his
antics highly distracting...
11 August 2017 – UNO!?
The night before our summer vacation – Finnegan was heading off to
D-Camp and one of the possible activities listed was boardgames and card games
and I thought if it ended up raining and they spent a lot of time indoors
surely one of the games they’d have would be UNO – so I thought I’d teach the
kids to play, so Finnegan would know how to play if anyone busted out a deck
(oh, he also took along a few of his own games – just in case! He even brought
enough D&D books that he could set up and run and adventure, if the occasion
arose!)
They thought it was okay. Finnegan thought it was “slightly boring” and
there “wasn’t much to it”…
13 August 2017 – Just Desserts, Hero Realms, Black-Handed Henry’s
Potion Party
Now well and truly on our vacation…
We a brought along a few games to play in the evenings or if any days
got rained out. Moslty games The Girl picked out. The vacation was (mostly) ALL
ABOUT HER. She had expressed earlier in the year that she felt like we only
ever pay attention to Finnegan, which is often a complaint of siblings of kids
with Diabetes (and its’ true – we do spend a LOT of time focusing on him –
checking his blood-sugar levels, counting carbs in meals, making meals for him,
figuring out insulin doses, etc, etc…). So we played a LOT of games SHE’s been
wanting to play for some time – and didn’t really get to play some of the OTHER
games we brought along...
The second night we were at the Ranch we busted out the gamee and
played a couple games of Just Desserts. I have a feeling that I won one of them…
I won a few games of Just Desserts over the week.
…and Black-Handed Henry’s Potion Party. I can’t remember who played
which character… or who won…?
…and Hero Realms. I think I had the Fighter for this one, Amanda had
the Cleric, and The Girl had the Wizard..? I’m not sure if we even finished
this game…
14 August 2017 – Just Desserts and Hero Realms
We moved locations on the 14th, for Part Two of our Summer Vacation, taking up residence in a
cabin at Waskesiu.
…and another game of Hero Realms where the girls ganged up on me
(beause I was doing “too well” the previous evening) – the picture was taken
AFTER I was out of the game. I don’t remember who played which character or who
ended up winning (other than NOT ME!).
While I really dig Star Realms as a quick competitive, card-drafting/deck-building game. I don't love Hero Realms - at least as a competitive game. I think it will be great fun when they release the co-op campaign...
15 August 2017 – Just Desserts and Monarch
This evening we finally broke out Monarch. I got off to a pretty slow
start, but ended up flying the banner of MIGHT – which was the first time I’ve
done that. Being able to sweep the market for free every turn is pretty sweet
and can really WRECK other people’s plans if there’s cool stuff there that they
desperately need for their courts… I think I did pretty well… I might have even
won – though I recall it being a fairly close game near the end. The Girl went
with CULTURE and managed to drop a couple of unwanted guests in both mine and
Amanda’s courts. Amanda went with Wisdom.
16 August 2017 – Just Desserts
We were all pretty tired from all the riding around we’d
done the past few days and needed to pack up to leave early in the morning, so
we only got in one quick game of Just Desserts.
17 August 2017 – Codenames: Pictures
We left Waskesiu pretty early in the moring and picked up
Finnegan around 10 and we back in Saskatoon around lunchtime.
After unloading and decompressing a bit we got in a couple rounds of
Codenames: Pictures. I don’t love this game. I should have got the original
Codenames…
18 August 2017 – D&D
Our alternating Fridays D&D 5E Primeval Thule game was
on the 18th – the night before Amanda had to get up early and head
off to Seattle for a week.
I can never seem to get everyone in a single shot… This week
we were tracking down a slavetrader that owed the Thieves Guild some money and
had skipped town and made off into the jungle. By the end of the game we’d
caught up with them at an ancient city full of degenerate little cannibal
creatures...
19 August 2017 – Loonacy
We had supper at my folks on the Saturday and played about 5
rounds of Loonacy.
One round I just could not get any cards down and at one
point had almost a dozen cards in my hand!?
20 August 2017 – Only War
The kids made some characters for Only War They are
probably only “practice” charcters – made just for the fun of making character
and may or may not actually ever get used in a game… Finnegan made a
Tech-priest Enginseer, The Girl made a Sanctioned Psyker… both support types…
We used the Catachan Regiment for their background/regiment bonuses (just in
case we decide to use these for The Eleventh Hour – when we have another go at
it…). It seems a bit odd using the regiment that a support character serves
with as their “background” as most support elements would have come from
elsewhere and are simply attached to units as required….? Ah well…
24 August 2017 - Carcassonne
Another evening while Amanda was away we decided to play
Carcassonne – which we haven’t played in a LONG time. Despite all the
expansions, we just played with the base set. I totally got skooled by the
kids. The Girl utterly crushed us, and Finnegan shot way ahead of me in the
final scoring.
31 August 2017 – Only War
on the last day of the month we had another try at Only War.
The kids made some characters of their own and I tried
running them through The Eleventh Hour again.
We pretty much played all day. Everyone had a great deal of
fun. We didn’t get through the entire adventure, but I brought it to a close.
The boys characters ended up dying in the orbital bombardment, but The Girl’s
Sanctioned Psyker made it out of the zone – she was able to secure transport on
boat across the Hellfen.
Everyone’s pretty excited about making new characters and
starting a proper campaign for the fall… Now to figure out a time when we can
all get together on a regular basis!?
Also Coming Soon:
Tomorrow I'm also going to be running a game of Tales from the Loop for some adult friends! I am curious to see how it goes.
I have a squad of Astra Militarum Tallarn infantry I’m just
finishing up and should be able to post pictures soon.
Just… don’t ask…
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