David Given Schwarm

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Tag: Expeditions

  • Actual Play Elemental Evil–D&D Encounters S20 S8

  • End of Season – DM Planning Session

    I rode my bike over to UCI for this weeks meet and greet. It felt great to be out of the house, I have been super silly sick for a long time it feels like. 

    The discussion was very similar to last week–we did focus on Chloe’s amazing note taking:


    And Spenser’s style.


    Diversity of DM is really going to be on of our themes this season–we have four very unique DM’s lined up to play which I am hoping will create a very special experience for our players.

    We did talk more about what each table will run — one Rise of Tiamet & three Elemental Evil we are thinking. The idea to start the season with an Expeditions table was also thrown around again, but finding the DM for that table remains a struggle.

    Really looking foreword to next season! 

  • 1st Annual Golden State Gaming Expo @ Comic Quest


    Ignoring the fact that you cannot have a First Annual Event, this Game Day at Comic Quest was a blast! 

    Kelly did a super great job setting it up, it was well attended, and there were a lot of smiles.



    I got there around 5:00 PM, could not figure out how to make Pano work on my iPhone, and did not win anything in the raffle.



    Inside there were a bunch of tables playing super cool games–lots of Indie stuff was being played which was really nice to see!


    I set up outside under the tarps–only in Southern California can we play outside, at night, in November!



    I ran the Defiance of Phlan adventures which are fantastic to run in these kinds of “Quick Con” situations–easy to bounce players in, action is fast, and the rules are not that important.


    I had about 8 players throughout the night & I think everyone had a pretty good time!


    I only had one Crit & the table DEMANDED we use the Pathfinder iCrit iPhone App, which may be my RPG Product of the Year!