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Dec. 31st, 2019 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherThis month at gaming group, I played Quadropolis, Space Base: The Emergence of Shy Pluto, and at least one other thing that I forgot to note down and now can't remember.
Also this month, we had the first session of a roleplaying campaign my brother is running, using the Acquisitions, Inc. expansion for D&D. None of us have played recently, so instead of jumping straight into the plot, the first couple of sessions are in-story training exercises to give us a chance to get up to speed on the mechanics and our characters, and hopefully to get our characters working together as a team.
In our first session, we completed two training exercises. The first was a basic low-stakes combat exercise (that old classic, "there's a swarm of rats in the cellar of the tavern"), and went pretty well. The second was a bit more involved, starting with fighting goblins and continuing with looting a couple of chests. The bit with the goblins went okay, but then we hit problems. All of the chests turned out to be booby-trapped, and we don't currently have anybody in the party with any useful roguish talents involving spotting traps, disarming traps, picking locks, etc. Fortunately, because it was a training exercise, the fireball trap was just a shower of golden glitter and a sign on a spring saying FIREBALL (although our cleric, left picking bits of glitter out of her fur, might actually have preferred the real thing).
Also this month, we had the first session of a roleplaying campaign my brother is running, using the Acquisitions, Inc. expansion for D&D. None of us have played recently, so instead of jumping straight into the plot, the first couple of sessions are in-story training exercises to give us a chance to get up to speed on the mechanics and our characters, and hopefully to get our characters working together as a team.
In our first session, we completed two training exercises. The first was a basic low-stakes combat exercise (that old classic, "there's a swarm of rats in the cellar of the tavern"), and went pretty well. The second was a bit more involved, starting with fighting goblins and continuing with looting a couple of chests. The bit with the goblins went okay, but then we hit problems. All of the chests turned out to be booby-trapped, and we don't currently have anybody in the party with any useful roguish talents involving spotting traps, disarming traps, picking locks, etc. Fortunately, because it was a training exercise, the fireball trap was just a shower of golden glitter and a sign on a spring saying FIREBALL (although our cleric, left picking bits of glitter out of her fur, might actually have preferred the real thing).
