September Review

Well September seems to have flown by and now we're in one of my favorite months of the year (because Halloween!). So, what did I do, gaming-wise, in September?

Not much. 

Miniatures / Wargaming 

Not a whole lot of anything happened with regards to miniature gaming - I did no painting of any real consequence, and the only game I played was One Hour Skirmish Wargames modified for the grim, dark, future.

Role-Playing Games 

I did run a session of Basic Fantasy RPG - and with just three players available, they decided to send their secondary characters out on an adventure. 

The adventure itself was based on The Delian Tomb adventure, which apparently is a well-known (online at least) introductory adventure, but I've been out of the online RPG space for a few years now, so it was new to me. It's essentially a 5-Room Dungeon model, although I don't believe that was the intent. 

Because the party has a goblin-focused mission coming up, I swapped out the goblins and bugbear in the original design for what I think are the BFRPG equivalent to duergar in D&D. I also reduced their numbers, since they are somewhat hardier than goblins.

It wasn't enough I guess? The evil dwarves handily defeated the party and it ended in a TPK.

Undaunted, the players sent in the third-stringers (new names written on the second-string character sheets in two cases at least), who managed to defeat the dwarves. They also found the hidden treasure and wiped out the resistance there too, before looting the tomb as all good adventurers do regardless of alignment.

My plan from the beginning was to allow and encourage the players to swap their characters in and out as they please, depending on the adventure and what the other players are sending out (you don't need three necromancers in the same party EVERY adventure, for example). Now that some of the backups have had some play time and one even has a magic item, I think the players may be more apt to mix and match.

Upcoming 

I don't have any plans to run BFRPG in October, but one of the players has floated the idea of running a session for the Family Fall Festival, and would like me to facilitate the rules and stats and such. I'm happy to do it, so I guess if anything I'll be assistant GM-ing at the very least (and I'll be able to roll up a character which is always fun).

If there is interest from the players, of course, I will run a game for them. 

As for miniatures, that I have plans to paint is certainly true, but whether I will or not - who knows? 

The same can be said for getting a game on the table, but it is fall, and it is football season, and it seems *very* likely that I will play some Blitz Bowl at the very least. 

Parting Shot

As blogging is a visual medium, I should include some kind of picture. So here is a photo from the end of September - there's a walk/run/bike path near my apartment and there are sculptures along it. 

Maybe it's just me, but the other day I was struck by how much this one brings to mind a Quar Napoleon.