Knights & Knaves Alehouse

I'm the middle, that's Mike and Elizabeth Stewart in the front. Mike is the author of the Victorious steampunk add-on for Siege Engine by Troll Lord Games. NTRPG Con 2017

The Black Blade Booth with OSRIC and the new Holmes' book.

The K&KA Social ....

K&KA Social, another view ...

I'll post a detailed write-up of the games I played in soon, especially the K&KA Social for those who couldn't attend. I'm not sure how it was for the players, but it was easily the high point of the Con for me, and perhaps the most fun I've had in D&D ever. I think I spent half the game with my face hidden behind my DM folder, trying to hide the smirks and laughter!

I'll also post my rules for surviving chainsaw's Foolsgrave dungeon.

BACKGROUND

Only a fraction of this year's players were present at last year's K&KA Social, and due to the large and loud nature of the group, some of the subtleties of what happened were probably lost in the chaos.

At the 2016 NTRPGCon, before the K&KA Social, I ran a 1E game Dungeon of Dracula (the players included chainsaw and austinjimm). Chainsaw played Alucard, an anti-cleric bent on taking over Dracula's domain, and during the adventure, started recruiting an undead army, and with his group, was able to slay Dracula.

Oh, did I mention that during the adventure, Alucard willingly took the mark of the beast upon his hand and head?

Chainsaw also played Alucard at the K&KA Social the next night run by EOTB, where no one trusted him. Chainsaw's Alucard developed a feud with the Lawful fighter run by Tetramorph (which is funny considering what would happen at this year's social). Tetramorph was dedicated to removing and destroying the marks of the beast on Alucard, in a noble but flawed effort to redeem Alucard, but fails. Eventually, one of the goals of the party becomes seeing to the demise of Alucard. At the end of EOTB's adventure, Alucard meets an untimely and gruesome end, to the cheers of the rest of the group.

Since Alucard had the mark of the beast, I thought he should come back from the dead and seek revenge against the K&KA players one year later at the 2017 Social. Only this time, he would disguise himself as just another player, when in reality he would be Alucard the lich in disguise, and sabotage the group, revealing himself at the end for the final showdown.

Since Jimm played in both events last year, and since we were both up for running something at this year's K&KA Social, Jimm and I teamed up to create this year's The Mystic Cup of Gygax/Alucard's Revenge adventure, a composite of the two magic mazes we had been working on.

I contacted chainsaw, who was of course all too eager to agree to stabbing the party in the back as the traitorous Alucard. Jimm and I gave chainsaw some information before the game, just enough to help him steer the group into death and carnage and help them go down the wrong paths, to whittle down the party before the big confrontation.

(to be continued...)

Steve wrote:Since Jimm played in both events last year, and since we were both up for running something at this year's K&KA Social, Jimm and I teamed up to create this year's The Mystic Cup of Gygax/Alucard's Revenge adventure, a composite of the two magic mazes we had been working on.

Here's a picture of the module and game box we distributed to the players at the end. If Steve says it's OK, I'll post a PDF of the entire adventure.

EDIT: ...And here's the link: http://knights-n-knaves.com/thescribeso ... -opt-a.pdf

It was an awesome con this year.

Thanks Grodog & Tacojohn for letting me hawk my modules from the Black Blade booth!

Thanks Steve R. and Chainsaw for making the K&KA social awesome!

I took my camera everywhere, but rarely remembered to take any pictures. Here are the few that I did take.

Chainsaw's Thurs. Foolsgrave game, just before the social.


For some reason everyone in the last picture is looking at Nathan's food.


The registration booth. Doug is hanging out with Chainsaw's good buddy, Frank Mentzer, in the BG.


The Hyperborea booth, manned by Ghul.


Bill Webb with Steve Marsh (and Mrs. Marsh?).


And here are 2 character sheets from the OD&D games I played in. The first is from Steve's "To Hades and Back." The second is from the HMS Apollyon.

Steve wrote:I contacted chainsaw, who was of course all too eager to agree to stabbing the party in the back as the traitorous Alucard. Jimm and I gave chainsaw some information before the game, just enough to help him steer the group into death and carnage and help them go down the wrong paths, to whittle down the party before the big confrontation.

Oh that sounds awesome! (Really need to make it to Texas next year...)

Donovan certainly has the poker face for that job! I've only seen him drop his deadpan expression once while refereeing.

And thanks again to everybody posting photos. My weekend was shit, so it was a welcome break to come back here and see people having a great time!

Man, sounds like the two of you put together an awesome social. Hats off! Wish I could have been there.

It was a fantastic game, but I will hold my comments until after Steve finishes the after action report...

More pics...

austinjimm running OE


Ghul running AS&SH


Welleran running 1E


tacojohn running 1E


tacojohn running 1E, welleran's bro giving the K&KA salute


austinjimm running the kids game


Jason Hobbs running DCC


Bill Barsh running 1E


grodog and tacojohn at the Black Blade booth

My roommate, John A., just sent me this picture of the Kids' Game.

Guy Fullerton wrote:Donovan certainly has the poker face for that job! I've only seen him drop his deadpan expression once while refereeing.

chainsaw in disguise


chainsaw's true form revealed!

Jeff wrote:Thanks for a great Social. Had lots of fun and certainly hoping my PC can come back next year with the Sword of Mitra! ... Alucard will die next time!

After Flambeaux, with his Staff of Archmage with 196 charges, you and your Sword of Mitra were my next targets after Welleran and his Sword of Wishes. Lucky for you punks the gods were on your side... but it can't last forever! I'll be back!