Detroit Gameday II: Dec 4th AFTERMATH!!!

[Stockdale]

That little ole monk's belt didn't pose that great a problem in game. I thought, all things being equal, that as powerful as that PC was, he made up for the parties' lack of fighter-types and the parties' total suceptablity to fear-effects (your PC excluded).

As the DM, I absolutely loved the diversity of the PC races and classes that showed up for Bloodlines. It made that senario that much more enjoyable. Next time, I'll pace myself better. To my ultimate dismay, we did not finish the story - we had some three encounters remaining when we broke up.

 

[Campbell]

Stockdale and Quickbeam's games were both a blast to play in.

In Stockdale's game my relatively ineffectual Barbarian / Cleric of Kord kept running away from fights, despite a pretty decent Will save score. There were some pretty tense fights in which I rushed in, took damage, and waited for Quickbeam's character to deal damage.

In Quickbeam's game I was a fair bit luckier. The fight against the hands was a incredibly creepy, despite the ease with which we defeated them. Having our gunslinger, shoot a hand off of the head of the bodyguard was really fun, as was getting to use Cleave to good effect. The encounter against the good doctor was also particularly fun, espicially in reguards to the uir-ein attack and wasting almost my whole load of Action Points to help take down the flesh golem the doctor had called in. The investigation in this one was really fun. It would have been interesting to take this game down a number of tangeants we thought of taking it down.

 

[Desdichado]

And I hear the Hoffman Institute has a wonderful retirement plan for those left to babbling idiocy.

Which reminds me; another nomination for "Quote of the Day" has to be binkus -- "I guess I can erase Dr. from my character's name," after being drained to 0 Intelligence...

 

[Quickbeam]

I want to take a moment to join in the giving of thanks.

Thanks to Josh and Troy (shadowlight) for arranging this event. I will be happy to help you out next time around.

Thanks to John (Stockdale) for running a very solid morning session which everyone seemed to enjoy. And thanks for not killing my PC as payback for twisting your arm into filling the DM's chair for our game .

Finally, thanks to the players in my afternoon d20 Modern game. Although I had a great time running the session, I must apologize for the umpteenth time that I was unable to stay through the final two encounters I'd planned. It appears that my wife's and youngest son's stomach flu caught up with me Saturday evening and I just couldn't physically hold it off any longer. Hopefully you all enjoyed the game, and maybe somewhere down the line we can give things another run.

 

[Quickbeam]

Which reminds me; another nomination for "Quote of the Day" has to be binkus -- "I guess I can erase Dr. from my character's name," after being drained to 0 Intelligence...

That comment gets my vote for quote of the day. I overheard it from an adjacent table and started laughing...as only Cthulhu fans and GM's can .

 

[Quickbeam]

Stockdale:
I'm glad you were cool with my equipment boo-boo, although you more than made me pay for it by sending the Bone Devil after the Oathsworn .

Campbell:
It is rather sad that your barbarian/cleric found it so difficult to stand toe to toe with some of our foes due to the fear effects, but your Strong Hero/Shadow Slayer kicked some serious tail in the afternoon game. And I would agree that you hit on two of the day's highlights for me as well. Having the Gunslinger shoot an animated disembodied hand off the Tough Hero's face was fantastic! And even better as the DM, was having the morgue director toss various chemicals and substances off the shelves at your party...which led to the urine attack. Truthfully it would have been some other substance being that it was a morgue, but the descriptor was too good to passup .

broghammerj:
Great meeting you! I cannot convey adequately as an observer how painful it was to watch every single important d20 roll go badly for you in the morning session. I am thoroughly convinced the new dice you purchased are cursed, and in your shoes I would have returned them no matter how crazy it might make me appear to the untrained eye. I know what I saw and I believe you are correct in implying their effects may have tainted your existing dice. I suggest an exorcism or public destruction of at least one die with all others present to witness the event, if you choose not to return the set. Dice aside, I'm glad you enjoyed the day and look forward to seeing you again.

 

[Desdichado]

Hey, I wouldn't mind getting behind that dice destruction. D&D doesn't have enough ritualistic behavior for me.

 

[broghammerj]

Stockdale:

he made up for the parties' lack of fighter-types and the parties' total suceptablity to fear-effects (your PC excluded).

You mean the "party" or my character? Thanks for taking the politically correct high road. I see this a veiled statement regarding my "nonfighter type" rogue and his incapacitation from fear. Oh well, at least there was some entertainment. Next time I'll play Laird the man servant as I do believe he has better will saves.

Quickbeam/Jdyal:

I suggest an exorcism or public destruction of at least one die with all others present to witness the event, if you choose not to return the set.

Hey, I wouldn't mind getting behind that dice destruction. D&D doesn't have enough ritualistic behavior for me.

Well I didn't return the dice for a number of reasons. First, I wanted to graciously support Pandemonium games for providing us a location for Gameday. Second, I couldn't possibly allow them to propagate out there in the world. Although they are starting to weigh heavy and becoming burdensome on my soul, this is something I must do to save the rest of humanity. Besides, I've got plans for them if they don't come around including the following:

1. Systematic launching out of my shotgun.
2. Smashing the smallest first until the D20 nows what's good for it.
3. Burying them in the first Detroit snowfall and not getting them out until spring thaw. Banishment into the Jiff jar of dice holding can be a sinister thing.

 

[Remathilis]

Actually, I prefer the baptism ritual: bathe the dice once in each of the three liquids: flat Dr. Pepper, Cheap Beer, and Cold Coffee, each representing the three stages of a gamers life.

 

[Campbell]

JDyal: If you still want to discuss my homebrew with me, my email address is errantprophet at gmail dot com.