Happy Monday, tabletoppers!
What games did you get up to in the last ~7 days? Feel free to share any stories, anecdotes, thoughts, and opinions about your game sessions. And don’t forget to discuss others’ games too, of course!
Bonus question of the week: What game do you introduce/recommend to almost everyone?
I’ve had a bit of a low gaming week, only played
D&D 5e (1x 4p): We’re taking a bit of a break from our main campaign that’s been running for 5 or 6 years, and one of the players is DMing a few sessions of something from the Wild Beyond the Witchlight book. We’re enjoying the very strange Witchlight Carnaval! I play a Fairy druid, and as I discovered as we started playing, my character has ADHD. I’m really enjoying the silliness of the setting, and the DM is fantastic at doing silly voices which fits so well!
Bonus question of the week: one game I recommend to almost anyone is The Crew. Cooperative games are enjoyed by almost anyone, the rules are so simple to explain and fit pretty much everyone’s attention span, games are short but you can play it for hours too, and depending on experience and skill you can dramatically adjust the difficulty. And it’s cheap and small and easy to bring places. Great game all round!
one of the players is DMing a few sessions of something from the Wild Beyond the Witchlight book.
I loved playing through Wild Beyond the Witchlight! It’s such a clear departure from most of the modules that Wizards puts out.
Ran my first session of Pirate Borg! Opened the session with naval combat to get everyone used to the rules. Really enjoying the naval combat rules and my players were happy with the new system. Excited for the next session where we will be running the in book adventure! In true OSR/NSR fashion someone died in the first session which there were plenty of laughs around the table.
Outside of ttrpgs I finally received my copy of Dustrunner. A solo only board game that fits in a mint tin. Had several plays of it already and quickly becoming my new favorite out of my other mint tin games. If anyone considers solo board gaming a try, Dustrunner is an excellent start.
My week was pretty limited. I was extremely busy IRL last week, but I did find time for a few things.
Magic: the Gathering: Thursday saw me at my LGS doing a bit of Magic. The games went okay, but I’ve come to expect very little in the way of enjoyable/interesting fights so I may not be going back for a while. Someone pulled out a Kingmaker deck right at the end too, so there was basically no reason for other people to play. sigh
D&D 5E: The four of us (1 DM 3 players) actually managed to get together to play some of our Dragonlance campaign, which went very well! We’d split the party in the previous session, which involved my main character hiring a couple people (the other players) to track down the Dragon Army and go with him, whilst my side character is leading the other two to Mount Nevermind to go save her sister. We played out the Dragon Army-tracking this week, and ran into a town situated on the back of a skeletal dragon. Now we have some answers on how their leadership works, and can prepare for a second invasion of Kalaman. I tend to play more NPC-style characters, so I was loving it! It helps that I’m the only one besides the DM who likes roleplaying, which means I tend to take a more active role in shaping the story then the other two players.
Mini Wargaming: I painted up a bunch of army dudes for Bolt Action, on commission, and they came out great. Can’t wait to do the rest of the guys; it’s only a small platoon of 25 plus an armored half-track, but even still I haven’t been able to paint in a while due to college so I’ll take what I can get. I’ve never had to do camo before, so I’m experimenting with new techniques.
Wushu: Finally, Wushu. This is a two-player version, but we went all-out on the terrible Ramen Oni and his Noodly Apendages™! He attacked us with his cultist-ninjas at the tea-house we were staying at and escaped with the magical flower from an ancient tree there. Hijinks ensued when we followed him to his hidden temple, where we were nearly sucked into the Ramen Realm and had to tear out his “heart.” He made us promise to save his family, then collapsed into a pile of noodles. Very enjoyable, no DM needed, would recommend.
Bonus Question: I have been desperately searching for a copy of Betrayal Legacy. All of the haunts in Betrayal are fun and pretty easy to understand, but the game still grows as you play.
Just D&D for me! One of our players has been very busy lately, but their schedule finally cleared up. We got to play 2 weeks in a row!
I had a really fun encounter as a Warlock. I was trying to sneak out of an area while invisible and flying. Unfortunately the imps patrolling the city were able to see me and took chase. I didn’t want to cause a big commotion, so I targeted one of them with polymorph and turned it into a gelatinous cube. Instantly caught all the others and was able to escape!
My group are currently fighting the BBEG in our PF2e Agents of Edgewatch Campaign. We’ve taken our characters from level 1-20 (a few deaths or departures along the way) It’s been about 2-2.5 years that we’ve been running the game, so it’s a bit sad to see it ending, but also exciting that we’ve made it this far.
Mild spoilers are marked below, nothing major plotwise. My character is currently the party member that wields the maguffin. Its a
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level 25 artifact that can cast a 10th level Dominate spell unlimited number of times/day, with a DC 49 Will save. Downside is that my character is the only one who can wield it safely, due to not having the Good alignment (I’m a LN Rogue focused on Dual Weapon Warrior, so using the super magic artifact is an interesting change).
Shenanigans have been had.
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During a single fight, there was one boss monster and 4 demons. I ended up permanently dominating 3 of the demons, and had them carry my other party members around, lifting them up near the flying boss, so the melee fighters could smack him.
