August in Review

August saw not one, but two Basic Fantasy RPG sessions. 

When the Purple Worm Graveyard ended, we didn't have time for doling out XP or for the party to pick a new adventure.  So, our next session was going to be admin and then I prepared and ran a short, Five Room Dungeon format adventure to fill the remainder.

To my surprise, it ended up spilling over into a second session. 

It was supposed to be a simple rescue mission: find and return some missing teens from the old witches cottage. But, it went south pretty fast. The party was nearly TPK'd by animated furniture in the living room of the cottage, and that was supposed to be a relatively easy encounter.

Later, after they had dealt with the "big bad", they triggered a trap that basically had a big neon warning sign pointing to it. 

I felt badly about the furniture - they were short a party member and I forgot to adjust the size of the encounter. I felt no remorse about the trap as I telegraphed it repeatedly and the party was well aware that it was a trap even in their meta-discussion, but they just couldn't help themselves. 

I decorate my son's lunch napkins - he's in HS but he hasn't told me to stop. Anyway, this is my rendition of the party after they took out the two old women living in the cottage.

Several party members reached second level after we tallied XP. They also picked out the next location they want to visit (on my pen and paper GUI). 

In miniatures updates, alas, no paint was applied to plastic or metal.

However, I did kick off what I intended to be an ongoing, low maintenance, fantasy wargame campaign. The rules I'm using are my OHW modifications, though I may fight some small skirmishes with Age of Fantasy: Skirmish or even Sword Weirdos. 

I'll post on the campaign in a subsequent post or two.