Last weekend I got to run #Daggerheart for the first time. This is an in-person game that's meant to be monthly. We had an absolutely stellar Session Zero back in November, then illness and holiday responsibilities delayed our start.
The good news, that left me lots of time to prep.
On the other hand, I had to learn entirely new ways of GM-prepping. All the encounter-building knowhow from previous fantasy #TTRPG lives doesn't apply here.
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#ThisWeekAtMyTable I'm playing in a #Shadowrun 4e game thats back in session after 6 weeks off.
We left on a cliffhanger crossing the desert, accosted by a go-gang 70 people strong, and it was about to get ugly.
I led off by cutting loose with military grade F7 Powerball and dropped a LOT of dice for extra radius. Something you could never get away with on a regular city run. 15 levels of damage in a ball 30m across. Vaporized half the gang in an Akira style blast of light.
#thisWeekAtMyTable the #ttrpg fates giveth and they taketh away.
My "weekly" #dnd5e Ptolus group may be DOA. Between holidays, one of my players been stricken with flareups of an autoimmune disease, and another due for surgery in December... we are done through at least the New Year. I have doubts about whether we'll actually get started again.
Funny story, my last stab at Ptolus, during the 4E years, also ended at 4th level, in the middle of an adventure...
Perhaps the city is cursed.
#ThisWeekAtMyTable it's the Grand Conjunction of #ttrpg joy!
Tonight I ran my #dnd5e Ptolus game, more rampaging through a haunted castle - ended on a cliffhanger, coming face to face with a demon!
Tomorrow I'm a player in a #Shadowrun 4e game, we're trying to extract our technomancer friend (NPC) before Aztechnology captures her.
Sunday I'm running Session Zero of #Daggerheart and it's going to be great!
In other #ttrpg news, #ThisWeekAtMyTable the Ptolus #DnD5e game I was running finally had another session.
This game was on life support, we are supposed to play weekly but had missed a full month due to medical issues and Halloween.
Anyhow, we ran the second session Night of Dissolution, and the party rampaged their way through the haunted Pythoness House, stomped some undead courtesans, and parleyed with a very upset ghost. It went well and I hope we can keep the vibe going this Friday!
#ThisWeekAtMyTable my dnd game was cancelled again, so Wife, Kid, and I finished up the #IronswornStarforged adventure we started last week.
We ended up having to rescue our smuggler contacts from the fortified bunker of a gang who had turned on them.
My Weapon Master / Ace got into a firefight with a patrol on speeder bikes, and ended up hanging from his fingertips over a crevasse of boiling acid before managing to turn the tables and rescue the smuggler captain.
A few months ago I ran a #Dragonbane one-shot for a new group, that went so well they asked me to keep running it on a monthly basis.
The Dragonbane quick-start boxed set is GREAT, by the way. It has the full game rules and an entire prewritten campaign, along with maps and cards and punch-out cardboard standees. You should get it.
Anyhow, the group got stuck in a time loop a la Groundhog Day, and made a deal with a demon to get loose. Uh oh.
The #dnd5e game I usually run on Fridays was cancelled, so I broke out #IronswornStarforged with Wife and Kid.
I had originally planned to play solo - since it's designed for that - but they both got interested when I started fiddling with sector/campaign creation.
We got contacted by rebels fighting against a corrupt Authority to smuggle in medical supplies, so off to space we went, tangling with raiders and discovering a forbidden research complex.
I was a player in a #Shadowrun 4e game that has been going for almost a year. We had a big story event that ended with 3 of the 4 of us players switching to new characters (1 dead, 1 off to corporate stardom, 1 willingly lost in the metaplanes forever).
So we had a nice RP session and got started on an extraction, trying to get our favorite NPC technomancer out of the city alive.
Anyway, I'm playing a dwarf raven shaman, street name Nevermore of course.
I also cracked open the hardcopy of #Ironsworn #Starforged that I bought for my birthday. I had originally planned to play solo, but Kid stayed up late helping me create the starting sector, and Wife is interested now.
Maybe this can be what we do when DnD falls through.
Starhawk