North Carolina Game Day VI: January 29

*snickers at the satisfying image of the orc cleric having just finished taking his bow as the arena announcers gave his name... getting taken out of the lineup by a ballista bolt* SHUNK-thud! *muhahhaah*

Seth did a *number* on that cleric.

"Ok - he's cast obscuring mist so he's got cover now."
"Does it extend all the way to the tower?"
"Uh.... no?"
"... I *wait*." *prepares blindness/deafness*

And then of course - as the howler tried to climb in the window of the top of the tower: "....uh. Nice doggy... good doggie... smell the meat? Good meat - lunch? Follow the lunch..." *chucks the spear with the meat attached out the window... into the above mentioned cleric*

April 23 does not seem close enough. I am going to have to figure out what to run.

Rel-

Those books that I mentioned:

Dhampir: Barb and JC Hendee
Way of the Wolf: EE Knight

Dave

BelenUmeria: Do either of your gaming groups have any openings?

adamantineangel said:

BelenUmeria: Do either of your gaming groups have any openings?

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I only have the one group that plays on evey other Tuesday evening from 6-10. Shoot me an e-mail and we can talk about it.

dave_ncsu_alumni@yahoo.com

Hey everyone, I had a great time at the GameDay. I'm planning on attending the next one as well, and if die_kluge wants to ride down with me again, he's more than welcome. I'm going to try to get one or two others to ride down as well.

Big thanks to Henry and Rel for the games you ran, they were great fun! I haven't run through the Giants in about 10 years, so revisiting the steading was a blast of nostalgia. Although, I have to say, I never had a giantess proposition me any of the other times I played that module... And as for airships on Venus, that was a whole new experience. All I have to say about that game is two weapon fighting DOUBLE CRITICAL BABY!

It was great to see a bunch of faces that I haven't seen in about a year, and to meet a bunch of new people. I'll be posting all the pictures that I took over on the gameday site, but here is one as a teaser, as Henry contemplates how to best destroy the party with a horde of hill, stone, and cloud giants. Not that he was successful.

Cthulhu's Librarian said:

And as for airships on Venus, that was a whole new experience. All I have to say about that game is two weapon fighting DOUBLE CRITICAL BABY!

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Heh, I guess that'll teach that German engineer to bring a pipe wrench to a Kukri fight huh?

A couple follow-up bits about Game Day:

First, for the Underoo Avengers crowd, thanks for a fun game and for something else too. Last night I was getting my child ready for bed and she wanted a story. So I told her this little tale called, "Dude, where's my brownie?" Today on the way home from pre-school she asked if I could tell the "Story with the Dude who always says 'Dude'". Good times! (though you should have seen my wife's eyes go wide with anticipated horror when I had the Super Sentient Broccoli say, "HIDEY-HO, DUDE!" in my best Mr. Hanky voice)

Also, we're about to set our plans for the next trio of Game Days after the one scheduled this coming April. These will be Game Days VIII, IX and X if you're into the whole Roman thing. What we're considering right now is having the one a year from April be our "mini-con" Game Day that takes place over two days (presumably Saturday and Sunday). We had originally been looking at doing this for the January Game Day but with our weather problems this year and a close call last year (I think it was the week before or after that we had a nasty ice storm) we thought we should play things safe. If anybody has any thoughts or ideas regarding this, please sing out. I'm probably going to have a meet up with Neal sometime in the next week or so to discuss this and we have to put in our requests for the space at Talley on February 22nd.

Something else we should talk down the line is whether and how we should restructure the time slots for the mini-con Game Day. We could possibly try to tighten up the schedule to 4 hour slots running 9-1, 2-6 and 7-11 in order to squeeze in more games on Saturday. Or we could just stick with the format we've been using and have plenty of time to socialize in the evening after the games have wrapped. I'm good either way and we've got more than a year to come to some kind of decision about that. Right now we're just gathering opinions so let them be known.

It slowly dawned on me in the climax that nine 9th level PCs were quite enough to deal with the giants. They slaughtered those raiders!

Although, I have to say, I never had a giantess proposition me any of the other times I played that module...

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Lesson for all you lady hill giants out there... never proposition anyone who's carrying an axe, no matter how drunk they are.

Rel said:

Something else we should talk down the line is whether and how we should restructure the time slots for the mini-con Game Day. We could possibly try to tighten up the schedule to 4 hour slots running 9-1, 2-6 and 7-11 in order to squeeze in more games on Saturday. Or we could just stick with the format we've been using and have plenty of time to socialize in the evening after the games have wrapped. I'm good either way and we've got more than a year to come to some kind of decision about that. Right now we're just gathering opinions so let them be known.

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I think that we should stick to the current time slots. 4 hour slots are great for the LG/ RPGA people, but they can be a pain when running unfamiliar games. Also, I have found the five hour slot really allows people more opportunity to role play and get to know one another. Also, I would miss the dinner. There is no way we'd be able to do the same type of dinner on a Sunday evening.

April sounds like a good time for the larger con. However, we should probably remember that it is close to finals for the college kids.

Also, please let me know if you need an extra hand. Now that I am a delegate I can probably get some WOTC support for the game days/ con and I can do more than just run the yahoo group. So if you and Neal need anything, then I am available.

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I think that we should stick to the current time slots. 4 hour slots are great for the LG/ RPGA people, but they can be a pain when running unfamiliar games. Also, I have found the five hour slot really allows people more opportunity to role play and get to know one another. Also, I would miss the dinner. There is no way we'd be able to do the same type of dinner on a Sunday evening.

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I agree that I don't want to give up a nice dinner event. But we could try to wrap up on time or early on Sunday to do the dinner. Or are you proposing that we do Friday and Saturday dinners as usual and then just head home after the game on Sunday?

April sounds like a good time for the larger con. However, we should probably remember that it is close to finals for the college kids.

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This is a primary consideration. That's why we're trying to shoot for the 2nd or 3rd week of April rather than the 1st or 2nd week of May.

Also, please let me know if you need an extra hand. Now that I am a delegate I can probably get some WOTC support for the game days/ con and I can do more than just run the yahoo group. So if you and Neal need anything, then I am available.

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This has some interesting possibilities. When you get a chance, e-mail me privately. asmoore (at) earthlink (dot) net