Session 325 was played on 3/29/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) Continuing their exploration to the east, after finding nothing of value among the ashes of the undead pond ooze, they come to a cave warm and humid, alive…
Taking a pause from our usual game as Josh was off on vacation, Lanse offered to run Beetle Knight, an RPG based kinda on the setting of the Hollow Knight video game (of which I know very little) but basically you play bug knights on quests to solve mysteries. The report below covers all sessions from May through June. https://brookletgames.itch.io/beetle-knight-quickstart We rolled up our…
Session 324 was played on 3/22/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) Exploring the area around the tombs, but away from the spider queen, the party found some charcoal drawings and then a passage leading up… hundreds of feet up,…
Starting the month with 100 degree days certainly is a miserable way to kick things off. On the upside, the Dungeon Dwellers RPG kickstarter arrived. Nice big box of new minis to paint and rules to read! Did I actually do any of that? A little. I started reading the campaign guide. I decided to delve into the Painted Wastelands Empire of Bones first, since that arrived last month. As for the…
Session 323 part 3 was played on 3/15/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) “Don’t go down the well!” was the advice heard multiple times around Rappan… It was finally time to ignore that advice and see what was actually down…
Session 323 part 2 was played on 3/15/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) Continuing on, the party comes to a barracks chamber, with 6 beds and chests. One of them has a lightning trap, but Borumar takes care of that. Morgana…
Session 323 part 1 was played on 3/15/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) The 10’ down (to the next level?) was not far physically, but the sense of dread that pervaded the hallway at the bottom of the ladder was heavy enough…
Do I play 40K? Not anymore Do I have space orc minis? Nope Is there a single reason I should be working on a Killa Kan for a game I don't play, to go with minis I don't have? Yes, Gork and/or Mork inspired me. And with that, I grabbed an old GW paint pot, and my boxes of trash crafting supplies, and got to work. I sawed off the threads of the lid, and cut out a cardboard disk to close up the hole.…
Session 322 part 3 was played on 3/14/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) A week after the dwarves departed, the party gears up and heads off to the mausoleum. With no gargoyles in sight, the party heads in and down,…
Session 322 part 2 was played on 3/14/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) Blotto, somehow, ends up being the one to go out and meet with the dwarves as they arrive and immediately begin to erect a number of tents. Riding upon…
Summer has well and truly arrived. School is out for the kid, my FiL is here to help take care of him for the break, and temperatures are supposed to hit 100 this week. I can only hope the high temps and the potential thunderstorms keep the neighborhood artillery blasts to a minimum for the 4th of July weekend, but I doubt it. Trek Long Island was this month, and I brought the kid with me. He had…
Session 322 was played on 3/14/26 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 8 (Me) Koltic, Cleric 9 (Cindy) Aroon, Fighter 8 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 8 (NPC) Lor’Koth, Dwarf 8 (NPC) After returning from Rappan, Morgana and Koltic spend some time removing the curse that Jameth had fallen under, then began working on a ring of featherfall…
If you look back at the "cardboard starship" tag, you'll see there have been a couple of previous builds... and #3 was never updated. That's because I never finished it. I was unhappy with the foam I'd used to make it, and decided to scrap it. That was 5 years ago. Now that I'm actually playing Stargrave again, and the next official scenario requires a crashed ship with a 10x4 cargo area that the…
Session 321 was played on 2/22/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 5 Kobold meatshields (Pibble, VI, Rags, Suv, Zurn) 2 Hobgoblin meatshields (Vorkvul & Gralvar) Continuing their exploration of the Asylum next brings them to a Fey WaffleHouse staffed with redcaps. They chat a bit with some of the patrons, but avoid…
Session 320 was played on 2/15/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 5 Kobold meatshields (Pibble, VI, Rags, Suv, Zurn) 2 Hobgoblin meatshields (Vorkvul & Gralvar) Stepping into the first glen from the dungeon door, they looked around. The late afternoon sun shown down on the glade, and the party poked around, looking at…
Session 319 was played on 2/8/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 5 Kobold meatshields (Pibble, VI, Rags, Suv, Zurn) 2 Hobgoblin meatshields (Vorkvul & Gralvar) Departing the Korners, the party descends to The Reptile House and is immediately set upon by a squad of lizardmen! The fight lasts a little longer than…
Started the month with 3 days of jury duty. Largely a whole lot of waiting around to see if they could manage to find 18 jurors out of a pool of 170 potential picks. They did. The last person picked was # 126. I was #140. While I’m a little sad I didn’t get picked, the case was expected to run for 5 weeks! Over the 3 days I got to eat some good food from the city and read 5 books (see below). It…
I played, but didn't do write ups for The Great Maglev Robbery and Dramatic Exit. The TLDR version are as follows: Great Maglev Robbery - Finding the right train car went as poorly as it could have. The flying drones were more than a nuisance, and while Chelle Ren was recovered, everyone was forced to jump from the train, as the skiff was too far away to be reached due to the drones and the large…
Session 318 was played on 1/25/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 3 Kobold meatshields (iGor, Pibble, VI) Continuing their exploration of the former hobgoblin redoubt, the party finds the midden, which seems to be back in use. It smells worse than before… who knew the smell could get worse? As everyone gags, Sonra…
With the construction complete, it was time to get to painting! Because of the use of foam on it, I used my mod podge and black paint mix on all the foam before taking it outside on the first 60+ degree day we had this year and giving it a solid coat of Rust-oleum flat black. That was back in March... Fast forward to MAY, and I was getting sick of looking at it and it's black primer coat... Not…
"The little bugger bit me!" Nimble yelled, as much from pain as embarrassment. The pink little bugger in question was barely 3 feet tall, but had sunk it's teeth into Nimble's hip. The others giggled with their wide wet toothy mouths. "Don't let them get so close next time" Rathgar laughed, booting one prone and running it through with his sword. He jerked to the side just in time to avoid the…
Session 317 was played on 1/19/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 3 Kobold meatshields (iGor, Pibble, VI) Sonra, managing to keep lunch, uses the wand to cast Fireball on the troglodytes at the end of the hall, and the foul smell of troglodyte is replaced with a new, slightly less bad smell of burned troglodytes.…
I finished painting Kalanzar a long while ago now, and forgot to circle back around to show off how I did it and how it looks all finished off. You did get to see it in the Year in Minis post from back in 2023, but here's a detailed look at the process. I wanted to keep the palette somewhat limited, both for consistency across the mini, but also for my own sanity, so this was the selection of…
Session 316 was played on 1/11/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 3 Kobold meatshields (iGor, Pibble, VI) The party takes the stairs down from Kobold Korners to level 2, and are almost immediately caught by 6 giant spiders. Fire arrows prove somewhat ineffective, but molotov cocktails proved explosively effective. The…
As far as the goals for the month, this one was a bust. Didn’t get the tower painted, didn’t get in a game of Hope Eternal, didn’t get a lot of session reports written, and I’m now 4 months behind…. All of this because of the audit at work, traveling out of state for spring break and then again for a neifling’s birthday party, and inevitably coming down with a nasty cold right at the end of the…