[Carrion Crown] Character Creation Comes the Inquisitor

After a suitable period of mourning for the prolapsed Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign, the group is embarking on a Pathfinder adventure path called Carrion Crown. Set in the region of Ustalav, I gather it’s fraught [...]
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Jade Regent Chapter 1, The Brinewall Legacy, Session 1

Welcome to the first chapter of our Jade Regent campaign, The Brinewall Legacy! Our neophyte adventurers in Sandpoint are drawn into long-hidden secrets by their friends, relatives, and loved ones, all linked to Sandpoin[...]
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Blight of the Khazars

So my Monday night ConstantCon game, the action has for now settled on a horrid little dungeon in Khazakstan.A rumoured mythical dungeon full of riches and power beyond mans wildest dreams! various notable nobles, scound[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 15 – Summer Wars

After the events of the Spring season, the team find themselves in a peculiar situation for the Lion Clan.  Conflicts are brewing across the empire, and threats both domestic and foreign are starting to rear their heads[...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Twentieth Session

Twentieth Session (18 page pdf) – “From Shore To Sea” – The crew drops into the village of Blackcove to check in on their old buddy Jaren the Jinx. Apparently his jinxiness has gone nuclear as te[...]
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[Solo GPC] 526: A Squire’s Life

For this first installment in the new phase of the campaign, I decided to cheat a little bit. There's a little introductory scenario that comes in the back of the Pendragon core rulebook; I think everyone who's played Pe[...]
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Player Maps

Player maps tend to only resemble the original DM's map vaguely, unless the PCs spend an awful lot of time mapping, rather than exploring. They also tend to include way more notes, as they don't tend to make a key for th[...]
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Return to Stonehell

After spending a pleasant evening recovering from his first delve into Stonehell, Nick the Pike hired Randolph the Herald to let it be known that he was looking for a few strong arms to accompany him into the dungeon. 4 [...]
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Eclipse Phase: Breakdown – Session 1 (Flashback)

This past Friday, I got to run my first Eclipse Phase session for my group. I’ve got some thoughts about how it went, which I’ll go into here, but first,... Read more »[...]
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Kingmaker: The Road from Restov

Number of Views :440 My Kingmaker Pathfinder campaign began on Saturday. Two players failed to show, so it was Jack, Josh and myself. We were initially thinking we’d just talk about the campaign, but I was begged i[...]
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Alternity “The Lighthouse” Session Summary 57 – Campaign Finale!

Fifty-Seventh Session - It’s time to end this. We get some reinforcements from Old Space, and decide to lure the External fleet to Bluefall and wipe their bitch asses out in one fell swoop. Does it work? Who dies? Wan[...]
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First Foray Into Stonehell

The Bumpkin's Squire was getting quickly out of control. Drak the Hood had arrived a short while ago, already drunk, and likely experiencing the highs of some sort of mind altering substance. At the bar Medwin the former[...]
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UnderDiscussion 65: Quarriors Actual Play

This week on UnderDiscussion we officially upgrade frequent guest Hooligan into the third host of UnderDiscussion, and what better way to do that than with an actual play of one of the best games of 2011: Quarriors! Slac[...]
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The Slaughter at the Ruin Sea

First, a litany of the dead.This is the roll of adventurers who were cut down on the shores of the Ruin Sea by viking raven men with cold axes and no mercy for the dying. Merrik, Ranger Prince of Dark HelmBlimm Holl[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 14 – Nobody Expects the Rokugani Inquisition! (Long)

This session was the last one of Year 2 Spring Arc for Never a Dull Blade, and from the way it looks, was thematically tied in to three major investigations across several mysteries.  After the mess caused by the Tsuno [...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Nineteenth Session

Nineteenth Session (27 page pdf) – “A Pirate’s Life For Me” – More time at sea; the crew gets into the pirate spirit and wavecrawls the hell out of the region. Vikings! Whales! Dead Vikings![...]
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Pathfinder RPG – Play Report Two by Rvelasco

There was much delay on the second session, and most of it is because of real-life reasons.  First, we changed sites.  Since the original site was rather noisy, a player suggested to game on his own house.  While I am[...]
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Thunderspire Session 6 part 2

This session was played on 1/7.Cory ran:Dietrich the Human KnightAnder the Halfling RogueAlex ran:Barakas the Tiefling WarlordChan Lee the Human MonkThe death of the demonic gnoll freed the slaves from the ritual, and th[...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Eighteenth Session

Eighteenth Session (12 page pdf) – “The Fishwife’s Lament” – The motley crew of the Teeth of Araska heads to sea, and immediately decides that they are on a search and destroy mission for ev[...]
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[Solo GPC] A Winter Interlude

Photo by Antony SpencerThis is an account of what turned out to be Meleri's last session as a full-time PC. I had an adventure prepared for this year as usual, but what turned out happening was an all-roleplaying session[...]
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Just like riding a bike

Finally got my game on this weekend and had some great fun.  I DMed a group of three using OSRIC/1e rules through a modified version of Keep on the Borderlands.  So far the group has hired some mercenary muscle[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 12 & 13 – New Year, Old Problems

After a lengthy hiatus due to the Holiday Season, the group is back for the Legend of the Five Rings campaign.  When we last left off the team had been busy trying to get the Town of Two Rivers back into shape. Years of[...]
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Thunderspire Session 6 part 1

This session was played on 1/7.Cory ran:Dietrich the Human KnightAnder the Halfling RogueAlex ran:Barakas the Tiefling WarlordChan Lee the Human MonkThe shadow dragon was dead, and the doors to the Well of Shadow’s Inn[...]
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[Pathfinder Campaign] Session One by Rvelasco

A bit of a long post.  Sorries for that.  I also included some notes for those curious on the details on some NPCs and mechanics. The game begins in a flashback.  (The intention of this mini adventure is to have every[...]
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A Pathfinder Campaign (Play Report – Intro) by Rvelasco

Okay, so I decided to run Pathfinder last saturday, and Pointyman asked me to provide a play report.  I haven’t run a “DND” game for a long time (I think my last game was the 4e game set in the custom [...]
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22 Dungeon Levels Are Not Enough – Congradulations to Pete

Today Pete, a player in the group(s) I DM, obtained "The End of the World" achievement trophy (worth 1100 xp), for his PC, 1st level Fighter Orpo, via. the party's cunning use of Levitation and Invisibility spells, reach[...]
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Why Sleep and Web Get Saving Throws When I DM…

...because you better damn well believe that I run adversary NPC Magic-Users like a goddamn shark. And if they had access to an "I Win" button they would use it. Magic goes both ways, but even I'm not that cold-blooded.[...]
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Preschool Pathfinder

My kid loves games. None too surprising, of course, and when I say that she loves games — she’s three — I really mean that she loves opening the boxes and hammering around with the stuff inside. Unfolding maps,[...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Seventeenth Session

Seventeenth Session (15 page pdf) – “Press Gang” – As usual, a little bit of time in port results in the PCs really tearing it up. A whole long session, and no real fights, but it’s not slow, with two … C[...]
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Thunderspire Session 4 pt. 2 & 5

I’m actually a bit behind on my session reports. I still owe you part 2 of session 4 (from 11/12), and all of session 5 (from 12/21). Because we should be finishing up Thunderspire today, I’m going to give a quick re[...]
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My New Year’s Wishes

Christmas is almost here and the impending doom of 2012 is right around the corner. So in an act of defiant denial, I now present my hopes and wishes for the new year of table top RP gaming. Acquire and Play Shadowrun. S[...]
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Instant Dungeon Crawling, Trial by Dragon

In which Chatty shares the highlights of his New York Comic Con D&D 4e game, featuring dungeons crawling and dragon mustering... or was that dragon mustarding. I forget.[...]
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Instant Dungeon Crawling, The Formula and the Setup

In which Chatty shares is instant dungeon crawling formula that he used at the New York Comic Con to improvise a full D&D session.[...]
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New England Role Players Association Digs for a Dead God

The New England Role Players Association (NERPA) just posted an actual play recording of Digging for a Dead God, the first act of John Wick’s Curse of the Yellow Sign, using Cthulhu Dark. Future acts are to come. I[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 10 & 11 – Spring Cleaning

It’s been a bit since the last Actual Play sessions I’ve written, but December is proving to be a busy sort of season so progress has been rather slow for the Never a Dull Blade campaign.  Now then, just to [...]
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[Solo GPC] 525: The Goblin Market; or, "Puck You!"

Ever since reading a Dragon magazine article ("Organization Is Everything!") during my formative GM years, my process with running any long-term campaign (GPC included) is to draft a rough outline of where I'd like [...]
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Chatty’s Quest : A Twitter Adventure

Follow the adventures of TextChatty as he tries to survive his first day in his apartment. A Twitter text-based game played a few weeks back.[...]
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ConstantCon update

ConstantCon games are still going along strong,  the party has currently decided to leave the werewolf infested forests and dragon haunted mountains of Norway and booked passage on a raiding party heading to Ireland[...]
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[Solo GPC] 524: The Knight of the Lake

My recent break from running the Solo GPC campaign came at a good time. I was starting to feel a little uninspired in terms of running adventures for a lady-centered game and wasn't sure how I wanted to handle certain em[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 9: The Lion in Winter, Part 2 [Long]

Alright, so in this session, the players go all out to win big for the Lion Clan in Winter Court!  It was a hectic session of sorts, with several players ending up speaking to some of the setting’s heavy hitters a[...]
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Thunderspire Session 4 Part 1

This session was played on 11/12.Cory ran:Dietrich the Human Knight (formerly the Dragonborn Paladin)Ander the Halfling RogueAlex ran:Barakas the Tiefling WarlordChan Lee the Human Monk"I know where the gnolls are!" Rend[...]
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Thunderspire Session 3 – Players Thoughts

From Alex:The monk beat up and sealed a dragon with his bare fists in two minutes pretty much by himself (the rogue's daggers didn't exactly sway the tide of battle with the dragon). That was very cool. I also like his n[...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Sixteenth Session

Sixteenth Session (14 page pdf) – “The Cypher Lodge” – Looks like the phantoms have taken over the Cypher Lodge, and the PCs have to throw down with Thorgrim and some old friends. Yep, this was a big finale boss [...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 8: The Lion in Winter, Part 1 [Long]

The characters find themselves a few weeks after the terrible War of the Rich Frog, and the Lion Clan and Unicorn have both retreated to lick their wounds.  This isn’t a time of complacency, however, as the team m[...]
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Thunderspire Session 3 Part 2

This session was played on 8/14.Cory ran:Dietrich the Human Knight (formerly the Dragonborn Paladin)Ander the Halfling RogueAlex ran:Barakas the Tiefling WarlordChan Lee the Human MonkFollowing the Witch’s directions, [...]
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Alternity “The Lighthouse” Session Summary 56

Fifty-sixth Session – We meet the Acererak equivalent in this sci-fi Tomb of Horrors, and he tears us a new one. But in the end, with the aid of the ghost of a stoner mollusk, we activate the ancient doohickey R[...]
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Thunderspire Session 3 Part 1

This session was played on 8/14.Cory ran:Dietrich the Human Knight (formerly the Dragonborn Paladin)Ander the Halfling RogueAlex ran:Barakas the Tiefling WarlordChan Lee the Human MonkThis session picked up immediately w[...]
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Thunderspire Session 3 Thoughts

This should have been written significantly sooner than after session 4, however I didn’t get around to it until now. I don’t have too many thoughts that haven’t been covered in my previous post session thoughts.Th[...]
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UnderDiscussion 61: Pathfinder Beginner Box

This week Kat, Hooligan, Slacker, and Freebird join WDR and myself to discuss, review and play with the new Pathfinder Beginner Box from Paizo. We spend the first fifteen minutes or so is a discussion of the contents of[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 7: At What Price Victory?

With word of the Unicorn’s advance towards Lion Clan territory, the group assembled in Shiro Matsu at the behest of their superiors.  The Matsu castle was abuzz with activity as all of the Lion were preparing for [...]
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