WorldWide GaryCon This Weekend!
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freyar
Extradimensional Explorer
Unusually for me, I'm running two games this weekend. My wife & I played today, in a campaign that we're only just picking up again after about 7 months off. I ran my first dragon fight today -- a souped up version of the dragon fight in Forge of Fury. It was also my wife's first dragon fight as a player. ![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Seemed fitting, somehow. Tomorrow, I'm running another group in what has mostly been an urban campaign so far but will hopefully end up with a short dungeon crawl. I think I'll leave the traps in.
Seemed fitting, somehow. Tomorrow, I'm running another group in what has mostly been an urban campaign so far but will hopefully end up with a short dungeon crawl. I think I'll leave the traps in.Varianor Abroad
Explorer
My group preferred to stick with 3E. So we ran through a 3E adventure instead.
2 PCs dead (1 human wizard, 1 half-orc fighter)
1 PC down to 0 wisdom and half dead (elven rogue)
1 PC who went to -2, but got healed. The dwarf cleric, down to a 7 Wisdom.
1 PC alive and pretty much unscathed (wizard)
We started at 3 in the afternoon. It took four hours to get to the door of the dungeon! We wrapped up at 3 AM! (I haven't played that late in a long, long time.) We drank a toast in his honor to start with some gin and the words "Game on!" There were wilderness encounters, town encounters, random tables (including, bizarrely enough at one player request, the streetwalker table), potion miscibility, and an empty chair for Gary Gygax along with a pile of the books that he wrote. We set the adventure in Greyhawk, and my 25 year old gazetteer maps were still in good shape! It was old school gaming at its finest (in a shiny new format). The final encounter was a dragon of course. I couldn't pull off a TPK. I came close though, and that's good enough for the spirit of the game.
Thank you again, E. Gary Gygax for all the great gaming.
2 PCs dead (1 human wizard, 1 half-orc fighter)
1 PC down to 0 wisdom and half dead (elven rogue)
1 PC who went to -2, but got healed. The dwarf cleric, down to a 7 Wisdom.
1 PC alive and pretty much unscathed (wizard)
We started at 3 in the afternoon. It took four hours to get to the door of the dungeon! We wrapped up at 3 AM! (I haven't played that late in a long, long time.) We drank a toast in his honor to start with some gin and the words "Game on!" There were wilderness encounters, town encounters, random tables (including, bizarrely enough at one player request, the streetwalker table), potion miscibility, and an empty chair for Gary Gygax along with a pile of the books that he wrote. We set the adventure in Greyhawk, and my 25 year old gazetteer maps were still in good shape! It was old school gaming at its finest (in a shiny new format). The final encounter was a dragon of course. I couldn't pull off a TPK. I came close though, and that's good enough for the spirit of the game.
Thank you again, E. Gary Gygax for all the great gaming.
Silver Moon
Adventurer
We had an empty chair at our table tonight and had considerable Out-of-game conversations about him and the various tributes paid to him. We all were pleased that SNL didn't toss in any jokes during Weekend Update about his passing.
Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
Well I don't have a regular group at the moment (but I'm planning to run some 4e games in the summer) but I managed to get a friend over to test-drive the 4e rules with a (very) short battle against some kobolds.
The ranger was the star of the show, downing two kobold skirmishers in one round with a Daily and an Action Point, but it was a fun little session.
To Gary!
The ranger was the star of the show, downing two kobold skirmishers in one round with a Daily and an Action Point, but it was a fun little session.
To Gary!
shilsen
Adventurer
I ran my two Eberron games this weekend.
In the Saturday game, the PCs got to fight gnolls wielding Bohemian Earspoons.
And on Sunday the PCs ran up against a CR 20 black dragon named Xagygyrag (read that backwards), who was handing their asses to them when they came up with something which gave him a reason to leave. But he'll be back, and they're planning to get completely buffed and take him on. So next session my PCs are possibly going to get TPKed by Gary Gygax.
In the Saturday game, the PCs got to fight gnolls wielding Bohemian Earspoons.
And on Sunday the PCs ran up against a CR 20 black dragon named Xagygyrag (read that backwards), who was handing their asses to them when they came up with something which gave him a reason to leave. But he'll be back, and they're planning to get completely buffed and take him on. So next session my PCs are possibly going to get TPKed by Gary Gygax.
Donovan Morningfire
First Post
Though we had made the call long before Mr. Gygax's passing, we had opted to give the 4e rules a test run using the Scalegloom sample characters.
The GM dedicated our session "to the memory of E. Gary Gygax, Patron Saint of Gaming," and when making a (perceived) critical roll, would utter "I beseech the, oh Saint Gygax, bless this roll of your acolyte"... and then proceed to blow the roll
(and he was playing the cleric to boot)
This was topped when the lady playing the Warlock, before rolling for her daily on the head kobold, looked upwards and said, "Hey Gary, would you mind giving me a bit of nudge?" She rolled a 20, much to the cleric's consternation and our laughter.
Mind you, we got TPK'd by the black dragon, but it was a fun night. Even if it wasn't 1e, I think it was in the spirit of the man and what he helped create.
The GM dedicated our session "to the memory of E. Gary Gygax, Patron Saint of Gaming," and when making a (perceived) critical roll, would utter "I beseech the, oh Saint Gygax, bless this roll of your acolyte"... and then proceed to blow the roll
(and he was playing the cleric to boot)This was topped when the lady playing the Warlock, before rolling for her daily on the head kobold, looked upwards and said, "Hey Gary, would you mind giving me a bit of nudge?" She rolled a 20, much to the cleric's consternation and our laughter.
Mind you, we got TPK'd by the black dragon, but it was a fun night. Even if it wasn't 1e, I think it was in the spirit of the man and what he helped create.
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