Tag: Dungeons and Dragons
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Wynmeth is voted off the Island! Elemental Evil–D&D Encounters S20 S4
Another great week of D&D Encounters at Comic Quest started with Chase taunting us from Hawaii
Luckily we had something with which to whip our tears from our eyes
Then I tried to take a Pano photo inside the room
which I always seem to have a hard time getting started
and seems to stop and just take a regular picture cause I am doing something wrong
and then when I get it does not really look as awesome as I had hoped.
Our table did look fantastic
I had some great Gamescience dice to make up for the recently stolen D20
Here are the theives dice–not the high number of unmatching D6’s–which is likely the sign of a deeper problem…is there a specific word for Dice Kleptomania
In any event, the other players all have these awesome Dice towers, so I made one from a Pringles container
I tore the bottom off of another tube to make an angled plane that would kick the die out
It worked greatJack and then tried to design a logo for the Bull Rushers. Here is his design–which is pretty great
My design is Bull Horns on Getty Lee, which I think is a winning combination even if I did not capture it very well
The adventure was fantastic–with Six Very different PCs and players.
Our Trojan Horse wagon adventure to capture the bandits worked very well
but in the end, my PC–the great Deep Gnome Bard Sage Wynmeth was voted off the island Survivor Style…Great fun. -
Chasing Birds, Alarums, & DM Planning on a Perfect Wednesday.
I started the day with some Home School Homework.
And then Cody & I headed over to the DM Lunch
Cody ran around trying to take pictures of birds–a very difficult task.
He captured this one just before take off!
the Princes of the Apocolypse Elemental Evil book is out–mostly an adventure book–which I may not purchase–the second release in a row from WotC that I have not paid for–I did not get Rise of Tiamet either.I do not know what the word Alarums and Excursions means. D&D is still teaching me new words! So cool to be exposed to military terms that I would not find anywhere else in my world.
We had four of the six DM’s show up. They are doing an amazing job working together as a team, sharing ideas and everything–it is the best I have ever seen. Nathan, the SO, is also doing a great job of table management.
Currently, at Comic Quest, I am seeing some amazingly great D&D Organized play. -
Elemental Evil–D&D Encounters S20 S2
Another week of D&D Encounters at Comic Quest. This week, because of truck issues, Andy & I carpooled down with Brian & I shot this time lapse photography of the trip mostly to make East Coast Gamers jealous.
This week was First Week of Season 20 of D&D Encounters! We are playing Princes of the Apocolypse which is part of the Elemental Evil story line.
Energy at the shop is off the charts! People are totally stoked to be there:
And there are lots of people showing up–this session has ~5 tables running [two are outside! welcome to CA]. Two tables of Princes of the Apocalypse, Two tables of Rise of Tiamet, and one table of Adventure League–this week they ran the Defiance in Phlan.
Inside, Jack was in strong form with his Svirfneblin Bard
Chase had a Elf Ranger
Rockhide & Chalula were also at our table & were completely awesome
Greg had a Half-Orc BARDaraian–it was a barbarian with an entertainer background that he tried to pass off as a Bard.
I had a Svirfneblin Sage–Brian is playing at Spencer’s Rise of Tiamet table.
The shop was packed!
Jack continues to use the worlds ugliest dice–and a very hideous mini as well
Chase has an amazing dice rolling box–of course, he Storked his Survivor roll off against Greg!
Jack and I had a great Japanese Tourist trip and enjoyed the ride home in Chase’s car
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Rolling in Adventure League
One of the most common comments I get when I do Character Creation is:Are you guys not playing the the Adventures League? You’re rolling for stats. The Adventures League only supports Point Buy or Standard Array.
Which is 100% accurate–and I do not disagree.
The characters we are randomly creating in my character creation videos will need to be modified to be Adventure League legal, and all D&D Encounters characters must be Adventure League legal.
When the AL was first announced with the Epics, Expeditions, and Encounters legs I was totally excited–organizing the Organized Play structure around the way in which public play actually happens seemed like a totally brilliant idea. New players could start at weekly Encounters, move to “convention-style” play in Expeditions, and occasionally kick off new rules in Epic style games.
Simple. Elegant. Awesome.
The Expeditions players needed to ensure that all of the characters used in Organized Play were balanced and thus they had to create character creation guides.
AL Character Creation guides are regularly revised to ensure things stay balaned with Expeditions. These guides then had to be used in Encounters. Thus no rolling dice for character creation in Encounters.
An unforeseen consequence of the Adventure League structure, but completely acceptable to ensure that the Expeditions games are ‘fair’.
I would guess that Epics will largely be exempt from the Adventure League guides since the vision for Epics seems to be one off adventures. I assume that these will ideally include new rules, pregen characters, and the like–things we have always seen included with Event Driven games, but only time will tell.
So back to the original question, I am playing D&D Encounters, which is a part of the Adventure League. I will clean up my character using the Point Buy system now that I have a ‘working sketch’ of what I think Waynemeth the Male Svirfneblin Sage’s stats should be…
David Given Schwarm 