BEHOLD! (Part 2): My Otherworld Hobgoblins

Here are my Otherworld Hobgoblins.

Tomorrow I'll have some Undead and PCs.

BEHOLD!: My Otherworld Kobolds!

Here's my Otherworld Kobold Warband. You should be able to click twice for close-ups.

Stay tuned in the next couple days for Hobgoblins and Undead!

Enjoy.

New (Old) Red Box Character Sheets (Yeah, I know it's 4E)

Looks like some retro character sheets have been prepared to go along with the launch of the new (old) Red Box.

Yes, I know 4e is heinous in every way but the character sheets and portraits are cool.

http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd/drrep/2010August

Recap: My Gencon Labyrinth Lord Game

As you know I attended Gencon this year. This was my second Gencon and since I've been DMing for most of my D&D life I thought I'd try to run a game.

I created a senario last year called The Burial Crypt of the Bandit Queen running Labyrinth Lord. I played the senario twice prior to Gencon. The first group were "successful" but the game was a bloodbath. Of the 8 PCs and hirelings who entered the final battle only 3 PCs survived. You can read the details of that adventure in my previous posts. The second group timed out before we could finish the entire senario.

I tweaked the adventure only slightly by adding additional traps, one room, and changed another. These made the adventure more interesting.

The table consisted of 5 players including my buddy I grew up playing D&D with in public school. That was the first time we played together in probably 25 years. So it was special game in that regard. The rest of the group were a great bunch of guys, including the author of Saturday Night Sandbox. A couple had played together and they all had a great sense of humor. My friend and I had just come from a Reich of the Dead game with a bunch of pricks (they lost [EDIT: rules-lawyers who sucked the fun out of the game), so it was really nice just to sit back, play, and have fun with a group of guys with exactly the same gaming interests and sensibilities.

There were a couple interesting developments in this game. The first is that the party found a secret door in the first room and chose to go through it rather than head down an open hallway where there had been signs of activity. The second, was that random monsters kept cropping up: giant rats in the well room, bandits behind the party, etc.

At the chasm bridge, the party tried to send a human across until I reminded them that he couldn't see. The then unwisely decided to send Kerthanis the elven wizard with AC8 instead of the dwarf in platemail. Half-way across, poor Kerthanis was attacked by stirges and died...face-down on the rope-bridge :)

The final battle was a difficult one, The Bandit Queen was a special monster - a spell-casting ghoul - who called her 8 skeletal minions to defend her when the party entered. Again, this was a challenge, but by that time both the fighters found platemail, healing potions, and a longsword +1, +2 vs. Undead, so it's not like I was too harsh, Mhuahahaha.

The rolls just did not go the PCs way, time and time again they missed needing only one more hit to drop the Bandit Queen, and so the adventure resulted in a TPK after 2 hours. Huzzah!

Overall, I had a lot of fun. I hope they did too.

What a great group of guys to game with. They were awesome.

Enjoy the pictures:

My Gencon Recap in Pictures

At this exact moment I have more pictures from Gencon than I do time to blog about them individually.

I also caught a cold at the convention and feel rather crappy.

So, here's Gencon 2010 in pictures:

THE MAIN GATE THURSDAY MORNING:


THE 2010 RED BOX




COLONIAL BATTLEFLEET: KINGONS ON THE NEUTRAL ZONE!!!


KLINGONS: IT WAS A GOOD DAY TO DIE!!!


REICH OF THE DEAD


KROID ASSCLOWN GOES FOR THE FULL-FRONTAL ASSAULT...AND DIES


MY BUDDY AND I CLOSE THE DEAL ON THE AMERICAN GIs


SOME GOBLIN KING THINGY


MY LABYRINTH LORD GAME: I'M DMing (A specific post on this when healthy)


A FANTASY GLADIATOR GAME: MY BUDDY IN COMBAT WITH A GOBLIN


VICTORY AS MY CHARACTER (SPARTACLES) SEALS THE DEAL AND ENDS THE GAME


WINGS OF WAR FURBALL EVENT: SADLY MY BUDDY GRABBED THE SOPWITH CAMEL. I'M IN THE GERMAN TWO-SEATER


THE WOW FURBALL HAD 29 PLAYERS!!! CRAZY STUFF.

Off to Gencon

I'm off to gencon first thing tomorrow.

I'll post a recap with pictures when I return.

Cheers.