Knights & Knaves Alehouse

Ended up starting the young'un on KotB since I couldn't find my copy of B1. got through the keep exploration, hiring men-at-arms, collecting NPCs to accompany her M-U, and made it to the ravine and into the goblin caves before it was time to stop, after considering the entrances to the kobold and eastern orc lairs (with the heads). Luckily she turned east instead of west in the goblin lair.

We'll pick it back up on our next episode of the sheltering-in-place life.

Would a digital copy of B1 suffice?

I'm gearing up for another stab at google hangouts. If this doesn't work, I'm suggesting discord, since it has video, but I'll have to search the discord site to find the email/password recovery process. I signed up years ago when DF chat went tets up for a bit, and can't "lock in" my user-name because my email addy is already taken. (Well, by ME. Duh.)

I'm hoping that the player(s) will want to play 0e/Holmes, rather than 5e. I want to give a few things a try. Table-top & camera (TTC) will work, but it looks like I have a lot of scribbling on poster-board in order to do it, but I won't use minis since all my PC minis are over at my players' house.

If TTC won't work, I'll have to create digital maps. I have a huge library of Dyson Logos' dungeon maps saved, and it looks like sending maps & pics through hangouts works pretty good, so no worries there. I can customize maps as handouts in minutes, and did the majority of mapping this way for B1. I simply copy/pasted sections of the map and added letters, numbers, symbols, etc for PCs & monsters to throw up on the big screen behind where I sit. I hate GIMP, so I used a MSPaint clone for linux (called KolourPaint) that was fast, easy, and didn't screw up the minute details.

I’ve got a PDF of B1, but didn’t want to go buy printer ink or go back and forth from the computer while DMing. It’s all good - it’s fun to sit down with someone who’s never gone through B2

Today's game (low level campaign with a local B/X-based system): the characters found a *ludicrous* treasure haul in a throwaway random encounter. While strolling through a glade on the edge of the city, they fought and defeated five 1 HD brigands. One of the players decided to check their belongings for spare cash since they have a fairly lousy individual treasure type, and I ended up rolling that 3% for 1d4 jewelry on one of them.

After some more rolling on the value determination tables (straight from OD&D), they walked away with 19,000 gold pieces worth of loot, which is obscene even for OD&D derivatives. It was all open rolls on the virtual table, too.

Melan wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:15 pm

Today's game (low level campaign with a local B/X-based system): the characters found a *ludicrous* treasure haul in a throwaway random encounter. While strolling through a glade on the edge of the city, they fought and defeated five 1 HD brigands. One of the players decided to check their belongings for spare cash since they have a fairly lousy individual treasure type, and I ended up rolling that 3% for 1d4 jewelry on one of them.

After some more rolling on the value determination tables (straight from OD&D), they walked away with 19,000 gold pieces worth of loot, which is obscene even for OD&D derivatives. It was all open rolls on the virtual table, too.

The dice don’t lie!

Activate the Ludicrous Speed dice!

Someone else might be looking for those brigands and now be on the trail of the PCs!

They were wise enough to give away two matching 8000 gp items to Doriano, the suspiciously youthful and good-looking wizard, for some very useful information, so they may get away with it... but my thoughts exactly. They got their XP fair and square, of course.

Sounds like a blast!

Slept in, worked a crossword, and watched Demolition Man with the family yesterday.

Cantored the Palm Sunday Divine Liturgy today. I'm part of our parish's skeleton crew. It's going to be a very busy Great & Holy Week for us, but very weird since we're singing in an otherwise empty church.

Spending the afternoon helping a buddy with his stats homework.

Some friends with more experience invited me to test out Roll20 with them this evening. I'm looking forward to that.

I'd rather be gaming, as would my buddy, but duty calls. Hoping to squeeze a cigar in today, too, but the weather's looking a bit dodgy so I may not get that in.

Not a bad weekend. I watched all of The Witcher on Netflix and the really weird movie Colossal. My Saturday AS&SH game was postponed a week but I did get to finish Kevin Kelly’s running of Tomb of Horrors game (I and many others died at the very end...my first time ever playing that one). Also had a great virtual happy hour with my in-laws after spending much of today painting minis. Life is rough but I’d also say life is good. Now I’m winding down with a pipe and some bourbon on my deck in some lovely weather.

Finished Dragon Warrior (NES) last week and make some good progress on Dragon Warrior II (NES). Part sequel's definitely harder than the original. Well, maybe not harder, but more of a grind.

Chainsaw wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:49 am

Finished Dragon Warrior (NES) last week and make some good progress on Dragon Warrior II (NES). Part sequel's definitely harder than the original. Well, maybe not harder, but more of a grind.

If you are into ROM hacking, a buddy has created a randomizer for it:

https://github.com/mcgrew/dwrandomizer

That is about the extent of my knowledge about it.

There is also some tournament based around that.

This morning:
- USPS run to ship Greyhawk seminar prizes and a Black Blade order for Rich
- grocery run afterward
- lunch after decontamination shower

This afternoon:
- work on PC for online game tonight with Jay Scott and several other Greyhawk fans: I'll be running some sort of crazed grugach fighter/druid who longs to shapeshift into owlbears, perytons, bulettes, and other "mad scientist" monsters
- work on Wichita Greyhawk campaign prongs: 1) local game going virtual, 2) picking up the GaryCon virtual pickup game
- sort out Goodman Games stock for reship back to their warehouse

Tonight: game on!

Tomorrow:
- Easter egg hunt at Nana & Gran-Dad's with the boys in the morning (front yard only, not much visiting)
- order takeout at our favorite sushi place for lunch
- virtual family get-together for Easter after lunch

Allan.

Quaran-gaming with my brother today. Did some Dungeon and Mystic Wood. I really like the latter...it’s fun and has good replay value.

Our group (2nd level) got wiped out by giant wasps in HOD. The only survivor (an evil MU named Sidiqi) closed the door and ran back to town. We rolled up new PCs and are heading back out....

Singing Divine Liturgy for Great and Holy Saturday tonight & Pascha tomorrow so our parish can stream the services.

Planning to have an Easter meal with the immediate family tomorrow afternoon.