Chicago Gameday - The Aftermath!!!!

Man that was fun!

Wow, what a day! My face still hurts from laughing so hard!
The viking game, what can I say.
Rowport, you play one mean dwarf! Crushed by an 80" tall 5 ton bear, and lives to tell about it! Then later has a tree ent fall on him, and survives it again. If thats not tough, then I don't know what is. Then later he sacrafices himself to stop the evil my character had wrought. Good gaming!

Matty, I bow to your gamesmanship! Hard enough playing a spellcaster with no spells, but not backing down when my possessed character threatened you was an all balls move.
I still don't know why you and Curt just didnt off me later after me and Tom were done trying to kill each other, I beleave Mark put it best later when we were discussing the game. You both should have just slid me and the dwarf into the swamp and never looked back. :D
Then when your the last man standing, you listened to me and cast ray of enfeeblement. Should have just smacked the demon with your staff, but thats how it goes!

Curt as always you are the man, never a rash move from you. Played your character to the hilt, and still seemed to somehow maintain party cohesion. Talked me out of making tom permenantly dead, and im guessing somehow talked Matty out of taking me out when I was weak from fighting tom. Then later when the demon and I were about to destroy you all, you had the balls to charge me. Then you rolled a crit and took me out, to bad the demon was right behind me. You almost survived!

My second game was with Know the Toe, Trev, Suzi Yi and Joe From Texas. We were a bunch of rogues out on the town looking for the perfect heist. I began fast talking, and somehow everyone fell for it. Later the other players told me they thought that Mark had given me info pryor to the game to help select the place we would pop. The place I told them I had cased was a gold smelter, owned by a gnome and run by her family. I told them that the guards in the tower above the place were slackers that liked to play cards more than actually do their jobs.
They took all this on faith and proceeded to make plans with me to make the heist, the place I had chosen couldnt be more wrong. The guards above the place on the keep walls were more than dilligent, and there were far more than just two of them. It was actually the keeps garrison, and to call them slackers.....
But hey it was all in my characters makeup to be such a liar, and I had hopes that at least some of us would get away with some gold. Well instead we screwed it up real good, Suzi stabbed the counter clerk in the throat and the rest of us milled around trying to get past the back door to the smelting area. As an effort to keep the general public from figuring out what we were doin, we spiked the door shut to the outside. The gnomes locked the iron bound door to the backroom, and then barred the front door basically locking us into the room we were in until the guards came. When they unbarred the door and the guards waited for us to come out, they got a bit of a suprise. Know the toe came out at a dead run and used his boots of springing and striding to jump over two rows of armed guards, unfortunatley he landed on a passing horse towing a cart. But then he was up and racing down the street, until a wizard almost blasted him with a lightning bolt and a cleric then held him. Suzi had turned invisable, and had almost made it out of town before the same cleric also using true site held her as well. Joe flew out of the door using a magic item or some such, and was free as the proverbial bird. Trev used the tried and true method of run like a mofo, and actually got away. My character surrendered and then bribed his way out of trouble, leaving Suzi and Know the toe to be flayed alive for their crimes. I think however that the other players learned a valuable lesson, never trust a guy with a bad italian accent.
Awesome qoutes from that game included:

Roberto bobby bob the italian wonder- Your a gonna dressa up as a priest and bluff ayou way into the back room to get a better look atta the place? It wont a work, I would never a buy you as a priest.
Joe- But I am a priest.
Roberto to Suzi- Youa broughta priest inna my house? Whatsa matter wit you?!

Roberto- We shoulda just bust in and kill everyone, move alika whirla wind of a death.
Grego- Whats with you and stabbing and burning everyone?
Roberto- why you somea kinda philastine, burning and stabbing isa gooda plan.

Later after Suzi has stabbed the gnome clerk in the throat and we have realized were not getting out of the room were in any time soon.
Roberto- I think you mighta gotta little excited, we shoulda kept him alive and used him to geta da password.
Suzi- You said to stab everyone and burn the place down.
Roberto- I was akidding, whata you some kinda psycho?

So basically my game day consisted of getting the first party killed and the second arrested, Cant wait to game with you guys again next time! Guys, guys?

Oh and just to let everyone know, if you havent had Mark Clover as a DM you havent played yet. Check out his adventures at Creative mountain games, youll be glad you did!
 

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Re: Man that was fun!

ejja_1 said:
Wow, what a day! My face still hurts from laughing so hard!

...I began fast talking, and somehow everyone fell for it. Later the other players told me they thought that Mark had given me info pryor to the game to help select the place we would pop. The place I told them I had cased was a gold smelter, owned by a gnome and run by her family. I told them that the guards in the tower above the place were slackers that liked to play cards more than actually do their jobs.
They took all this on faith and proceeded to make plans with me to make the heist, the place I had chosen couldnt be more wrong...

I thought that you HAD talked about stuff with Mark to get us slackers moving--you conniving bastard! :D It is always an absolute pleasure to game with you--you're an amazing roleplayer who not only talks in character, but also thinks in character. I only wish I could game with you more often!

Oh and just to let everyone know, if you havent had Mark Clover as a DM you havent played yet. Check out his adventures at Creative mountain games, youll be glad you did!

I cannot possibly agree more. This man is my bloody GMing idol!
 

Another great time.

In the morning I had the pleasure of playing in one of Jason's (Trev) games. He was running Whispering Winwood by CMG. Jason did a great job as usual, using his acting background to provide different voices and personalities for the NPCs and giving a lot of flavor to the adventure. Man I hate bears. Thanks Jason!

Mark's game was dominated by the shananigans of ejja_1. ejja_1 came up with a full story about how he was casing this joint for a month and said it was an easy target. He even included my character in the casing. I thought this was stuff Mark had told him so I just nodded and went with it. As he mentioned above we made a complete hack job of the burgal. As we discussed over drinks, it was just like all of the TV shows and Movies where at the first sign of trouble in a botched heist, someone loses their head and has to go and start killing and it all goes down hill from there. A truely enjoyble game.
 

KnowTheToe said:
Another great time.

In the morning I had the pleasure of playing in one of Jason's (Trev) games. He was running Whispering Winwood by CMG. Jason did a great job as usual, using his acting background to provide different voices and personalities for the NPCs and giving a lot of flavor to the adventure. Man I hate bears. Thanks Jason!


Really? I'm rather starting to like bears... :D

You're giving me undeserved praise if you ask me, but hey, I love compliments, so thank you very much. I very often worry that I'm a boring DM... so anyone in my games... please tell me if I am! :) I love gamedays. I may be moving several hundred miles further south in the fall, but I'll be damned if I stop coming to these gamedays!

Again.. thanks to everyone for that cake. I love you all!
 

Thanks for the kind words, folks! I had a fantastic time, as I always do when getting the chance to game. Special thanks to Curt and Matty for running a great event. :)

The Vikings struggled against a series of very difficult encounters and nearly prevailed in the end. But for a handful of hit points which marked the last resources of the possessed Swamp Giant, the day would have been won by the fearsome Norse explorers. I was quite impressed by their prowess toe-to-toe with the Huge Dire Bear and inventiveness in the final encounter. Their ability to stave off their own destruction right up to the end in the face of evil both within and without the party was truly the stuff of great sagas!

In the second slot, much fun was had despite the perpetual spiral toward failure for the band of rogues. The fast talking William (AKA Baab) talked himself into so many corners I was sure that the rest of the group would see through his bluster. I'm a DM who doesn't mind allowing a group of players to fashion their own noose, so I had little to do with the unfortunate events that laid them low. No matter how many things they discovered that simply didn't mesh with Baab's description of his recon of their target, the group pressed on with their ill-fated mission. The biggest jaw-dropper was when things started to go wrong and the "plan" was unraveling, Leda decided that instead of the party turning tail with a black eye and fighting another day the best course of action would be killing an innocent clerk in cold blood. It was, nevertheless, a terrific time! :)

Both games I ran were marked by some of the best roleplaying that I've seen in a long time. There was virtually no meta-gaming and all of the characters were interesting and well-defined. I hope you will all stop by my new message board and help me christian them with your tales from the games. :)
 

Yo!

I just wanted to drop a quick note to say that I had a great time this weekend. Everyone was very cool, and I had a great time playing D20. It is too bad the Wonder Twins didn’t get a chance to pistol whip or knee cap more people. I guess there is next year.

I unfortunately had to run out before the second session so I didn’t get a chance to meet more people.

Do you only do this once a year? It would be great if it happened more often. I always enjoy meeting new gamers from different parts of the city.

btw if anyone wants do to a write up summery w/pics I'd be more then happy to post it over at Chicago-Gamers.com
 


Shadow_Chicago_Gamer - glad you could make it out. We do it three times a year. As Curt mentioned, maybe November for the next one. Next time he and I talk, I'm going to see how late October is for the store - I'm starting to like an even four month spacing between the Gamedays.

Later,
Matt
 

I would like to thank everybody who played in my modern game. It was a lot of fun and I do believe that I will try to run another one.

The point where the player rolled a five and beat the bad guy is only because he fumbled. I don't think I've ever seen dice rolling that bad in my life, because of that I 'm thinking of giving my players a new d20 before the game starts.:D

afternoon game Synnibar.

Matt, Matt, Matt... you have expanded my knowledge of the unknown and for that I HATE YOU!!:D just kidding.
being the third death in the first two minutes of gameplay kinda defeated the whole 2.5 character creation process, oh wait a minute I think I got it now. the character creation process IS the game and killing them just gives us something to do after we're done making them.

I think the game carried over to my drive on sun. about 2 hours into our return trip the jeep I was driving died. no sputtering or nothing, just lost all power and refused to start, I looked around but didn't see any grizzlies with wings and red eyes, but I think they were hiding.;)

Thank you everybody for a real fun time.


Chuck da mutant in Synnibar - I guess I forgot to turn on the bio syntha metal armour before punchng the grizzly with wings. (at least I was the first player killed by one of the creatures and not by another player)
 

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