Comments on: GaryCon

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:23:02 +0000

By the way, if I didn’t do it before, I’d like to welcome to the blog James!

Those charts alone were worth the price I paid for that book when I was 12…. I probably learned more of that game using those charts (and the Monster stat table in the appendix) than playing modules like the Village of Homlet.

By: Epic Level Grognard

Epic Level Grognard — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:10:16 +0000

Hmmm…one tournament perhaps?

I have been running the kids through the new ‘DD’ series from WotC. We are just transitioning from DD1 to DD2, on the way down to the UnderEarth, and the lesser caverns are a perfect old school interlude. I’ll try to update the campaign journal soon!

By: James McMurray

James McMurray — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:28:30 +0000

ChattyDM: “Sweet and very Old School… I played whole solo campaigns with the Generator and the Monster tables…”

Ditto!

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:55:22 +0000

Vive Gary indeed…

I’ve never played nor read through the Lost Caverns… There sure were a lot of new creatures and a huge dungeon in that thing!

How long did those Tournament modules take to play through?

By: Epic Level Grognard

Epic Level Grognard — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:11:32 +0000

I had an opportune moment in our campaign to do add a little GaryCon to the campaign. The party is hot on the trail of some tomb raiders working on behalf of the evil mastermind. They just went down a hole and entered the lesser caverns portion of the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth. Great fun, they played it wonderfully, enlisting the pech to help them past a clay golem and a gibbering mouther that I placed in the stream.

Vive le Gygax!

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:44:51 +0000

Sweet and very Old School… I played whole solo campaigns with the Generator and the Monster tables…

By: James McMurray

James McMurray — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:00:09 +0000

I’m spending my evenings this week rolling up one of each possible combination of AD&D 1e class and race and will be running them through a randomly generated dungeon using the tables in the back of the DMG. If a player’s character dies, grab another from the pile and jump in when they go back to town.

By: Graham|ve4grm

Graham|ve4grm — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:02:30 +0000

Awesome work, Phil.

I’m definitely wanting to do this once I have kids.

And with my fiancee being a gamer as well, I think they’ll probably have the gamer gene.

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:55:53 +0000

Following ELG’s lead I set up a little D&D lite game with my 6 year old son (playing a Knight called Sir Nico) and my 4 year old daughter playing a Barbarian Princess.

We played for one hour, the usual quest of helping Ms. Storowner get rid of the monsters in her cellar.

Both kids got to invent one power for their character. Sir Nico was able to chop up monsters really fast (2 attacks per round) up to 4 times a day. Laurela was able to charge and hit a monster ‘real hard’ (+2 atk, +2 damage) also 4 times a day.

They had to cooperate to open a door, they fought a Medium Spider and 3 Dire rats and had to flee from a bad Ogre guarding an underground River pass.

All in all, a great experience!

Gary Con was a Success!

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Pathfinder 6 - Of death and helmets : criticalanklebites.com — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:30:11 +0000

[...] And we ended off there, to start into Book 2 next game. This Sunday, we will begin, on Garycon. [...]