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<article class="blog-post h-entry post-text"><header><h2 class="p-name entry-title blog-post-title"><a href="posts/2009/11/28/lost-property-part-2/" class="u-url">Savage Worlds: Lost Property, Part 2</a></h2>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">T. Kurt Bond</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/2009/11/28/lost-property-part-2/" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-11-28T19:00:00-05:00" title="2009-11-28 19:00">2009-11-28 19:00</time></a></p>
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<aside class="admonition admonition-spoilers"><p class="admonition-title">Spoilers!</p>
<p>Lost Property, Triple Ace Games</p>
</aside><p>On Saturday we continued <a class="reference external" href="http://www.tripleacegames.com/">Triple Ace Games</a>'s <a class="reference external" href="http://www.tripleacegames.com/AceTales.php">Ace Tale</a>, <a class="reference external" href="http://tripleacegames.com/Downloads/AceTales/TAG_AT001.pdf">Lost
Property</a>.</p>
<section id="attending"><h2>Attending</h2>
<p>Clockwise, starting with the GM:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>T.K.B. — GM</p></li>
<li><p>E.A. — Aspen Thistledown & Sigisund Thorinsson</p></li>
<li><p>T.A. — Sir Deelan the Ignoble & Belinda Warmhearted</p></li>
<li><p>M.A. — Alfros Bladesinger</p></li>
<li><p>L.B. — Sir Leopold Drakehelm & Cassandra Lightfinger</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Unfortunately, D.B. wasn't available.</p>
<p>L.B. had been dissatisfied with the character she had been playing,
Belinda Warmhearted (a pacifist with a low Fighting skill), and
switched her for Sir Leopold Drakehelm.</p>
<p>She and E.A. both wanted to try playing two characters.</p>
</section><section id="actual-play-afternoon"><h2>Actual Play, Afternoon</h2>
<p>As they rested, they heard noises approaching from the unblocked side
of the tunnel, and prepared for battle, but it turned out to be the
remains of another group the criminal syndicate had sent to find Jeck
Lightfinger, Sigisund Thorinsson and Cassandra Lightfinger. They
gladly joined forces against the ghouls of the tunnels.</p>
<p>After resting, Aspen Thistledown was able to track her way back to
where they had left the tracks of the dragged body. Once there she
had no difficulty tracking them to the ghoul's feasting room, where
they found many bodies in the various stages of decay, including that
of Jeck Lightfinger. Unfortunately, the item they sought was not on
what little remained of the body. Search the room, they noticed that
many of the corpses showed the signs of having died from the blood
plague, which lead them to the thought that someone had broken into
the burial tunnels where the plague bodies had been interred. They
hurriedly left the ghoul tunnels and headed back to report.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>▶ Here we broke for supper.</p>
</blockquote>
</section><section id="actual-play-evening"><h2>Actual Play, Evening</h2>
<blockquote>
<p>▶ After supper we picked up again.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The criminal syndicate gave them all medallions to protect them from
the blood plague and sent them off to the plague burial tunnels. They
found that the seal on the door to the tunnels had been broken, and
someone had been coming and going. They spent some time exploring the
tunnels, and eventually came to area where another had broken into
the plague tunnels, coming from further in the mountain. They
followed this tunnel until they heard chanting from ahead. Sneaking
up, they found an ancient temple carved into the mountain, with rat men
chanting and praying.</p>
<p>The kids knew that they needed a plan, or they'd get wiped out by the
rat men, but it took them a little while to agree on one. They
decided to sneak onto one of the balconies that ran along the sides of
the temple, so that they could only be attacked through two places,
the hallway leading to the balcony from the tunnel at the back of the
temple and the stairs leading up to the balcony at the front of the
temple. They positioned their ranged fighters to target the rat man
shaman leading the chant, their melee fighters to hold the entrances,
and started off their attack with Alfros Bladesinger casting <em>fear</em> on
the area with the greatest number of rat men.</p>
<p>It was a good plan, and it worked out well for them. The <em>fear</em> spell
drove away many of the rat men, back into their tunnels deeper into
the depths. They managed to Shake the shaman, and keep him Shaken
most of the time. The melee fighters kept the other rat men off
the ranged fighters long enough for the ranged fighters to finish
off the shaman and dispose of several of the other rat men, and they
the finished off the rest as they came up the stairs and down the
hallway.</p>
<p>They searched the shaman and found the item they were looking for, so
they left to report.</p>
</section><section id="reflections"><h2>Reflections</h2>
<p>I really need to start a regular Savage Worlds campaign for the kids.</p>
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</article><article class="blog-post h-entry post-text"><header><h2 class="p-name entry-title blog-post-title"><a href="posts/2009/11/26/lost-property/" class="u-url">Savage Worlds: Lost Property</a></h2>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">T. Kurt Bond</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/2009/11/26/lost-property/" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-11-26T17:00:00-05:00" title="2009-11-26 17:00">2009-11-26 17:00</time></a></p>
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<aside class="admonition admonition-spoilers"><p class="admonition-title">Spoilers!</p>
<p>Lost Property, Triple Ace Games</p>
</aside><p>Late in the afternoon the kids wanted to play an RPG again, so I
pulled out one of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.tripleacegames.com/">Triple Ace Games</a>'s <a class="reference external" href="http://www.tripleacegames.com/AceTales.php">Ace Tales</a>, <a class="reference external" href="http://tripleacegames.com/Downloads/AceTales/TAG_AT001.pdf">Lost
Property</a>. TAG's Ace Tales are their equivalent of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.peginc.com/">PEG</a>'s <cite>One Sheet
Adventures</cite>: a short adventure in PDF that fits on the front and back
of one sheet, often with accompanying pre-generated characters.
This particular one is a generic fantasy adventure that has the
players working for a criminal syndicate trying to recover an item.</p>
<p>There weren't any pregens for this particular Ace Tale, so I got the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.peginc.com/Downloads/SW_Fantasy/Pregens_Fantasy.pdf">ones</a> from PEG's <cite>Wizards & Warriors Genre Supplement</cite> and the ones
from <cite>Against the Orcs</cite> and let the players choose which they wanted.
T.B. brought along a fantasy character he had created, a noble, and
D.B. chose Sir Leopold Drakehelm, so we had two nobles working for a
criminal syndicate, so I decided that they had to be disgraced
nobles.</p>
<section id="attending"><h2>Attending</h2>
<p>Clockwise, starting with the GM:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>T.K.B. — GM</p></li>
<li><p>E.A. — Aspen Thistledown</p></li>
<li><p>T.A. — Sir Deelan the Ignoble <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="posts/2009/11/26/lost-property/#footnote-1" id="footnote-reference-1" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>1<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></li>
<li><p>M.A. — Alfros Bladesinger</p></li>
<li><p>D.B. — Sir Leopold Drakehelm (later played by T.A. after D.B. had to leave)</p></li>
<li><p>L.B. — Belinda Warmhearted</p></li>
</ul></section><section id="actual-play"><h2>Actual Play</h2>
<p>An unsanctioned thief, Jeck Lightfinger, had fled with his ill-gotten
gains into <strong>The Widow's Hold</strong>, a local haunted house. The
characters were charged with finding Jeck.</p>
<p>They entered the ill-omened house and soon found the entrance to the
tunnels below. They were soon ambushed by ghouls (in this scenario a
type of undead), but fought them off. When the last ghoul fled, Sir
Leopald</p>
<aside class="footnote-list brackets"><aside class="footnote brackets" id="footnote-1" role="doc-footnote"><span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="posts/2009/11/26/lost-property/#footnote-reference-1">1</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
<p>The character T.A. brought was a noble with the tag “The
Brave”, but since they were working for a criminal syndicate he had
to be disgraced noble and hence had the tag “The Ignoble” was more
appropriate. I assured T.A. that Sir Deelan the Ignoble was just
an ignoble alternate version of Sir Deelan the Brave, and he could
play the original character in another game.</p>
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</article><article class="blog-post h-entry post-text"><header><h2 class="p-name entry-title blog-post-title"><a href="posts/2009/11/26/turkey-day-toon-2009/" class="u-url">Turkey Day Toon</a></h2>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">T. Kurt Bond</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/2009/11/26/turkey-day-toon-2009/" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-11-26T10:00:00-05:00" title="2009-11-26 10:00">2009-11-26 10:00</time></a></p>
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<p>L.B. decided she wanted to play <a class="reference external" href="pages/roleplaying-games-played-with-the-kids/#toon">Toon</a> so much that she was willing to
be the Animator and run the game for <a class="reference external" href="categories/cat_gaming/actual-play/the-kids/">the kids</a>; She came up the
idea of a holiday-themed adventure and pre-generated characters, and I
helped her with some of the game system details. She came up with a
scenario: a premise, a list of locations, and obstacles at each.</p>
<section id="attending"><h2>Attending</h2>
<p>Clockwise starting with the Animator:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>L.B. — the Animator</p></li>
<li><p>E.A. — Rachel Rabbit</p></li>
<li><p>M.A. — Pete Pig</p></li>
<li><p>T.A. — Chris the Chicken</p></li>
<li><p>T.K.B. & D.B. — Pat the Pilgrim</p></li>
</ul></section><section id="actual-play"><h2>Actual Play</h2>
<p>E.A., M.A., and T.A. came over to play Thanksgiving morning to play
before heading next door to the holiday meal at Grandma's.</p>
<p>Not long after we started D.B. arrived, looking for his cousins, and
since we were playing, I bowed out and handed Pat the Pilgrim over to
Dan.</p>
<p>The kids all seemed to be having fun, and L.B. said she enjoyed
running the game, although she did say that playing was more fun.</p>
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</article><article class="blog-post h-entry post-text"><header><h2 class="p-name entry-title blog-post-title"><a href="posts/2009/11/19/oo2c-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/" class="u-url">oo2c on Mac OS X Snow Leopard</a></h2>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">T. Kurt Bond</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/2009/11/19/oo2c-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-11-19T12:18:03-05:00" title="2009-11-19 12:18">2009-11-19 12:18</time></a></p>
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<p>It looks like I got <a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooc">oo2c</a> to build and work under Mac OS X Snow
Leopard, with some stupid hacks, at least enough for my purposes. I
don't claim that this is suitable for production work.</p>
<p>Here's the <span class="program">configure</span> invocation I used:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">CFLAGS='-no-cpp-precomp -fnested-functions -I/opt/local/include' \
LDFLAGS='-L/opt/local/lib' \
./configure --prefix=/sw/versions/m64/oo2c/2.1.11 --disable-libs</pre>
<p>Here's the <a class="reference external" href="oo2c-macosx-snow-leopard.patch">patch</a>.</p>
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</article><article class="blog-post h-entry post-text"><header><h2 class="p-name entry-title blog-post-title"><a href="posts/2009/11/13/sherwood-smith/" class="u-url">Recent Reading: Sherwood Smith</a></h2>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">T. Kurt Bond</span></p>
<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/2009/11/13/sherwood-smith/" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2009-11-13T00:00:00-05:00" title="2009-11-13 00:00">2009-11-13 00:00</time></a></p>
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<li><p><cite>The King's Shield</cite>, by Sherwood Smith</p></li>
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</article><article class="blog-post h-entry post-text"><header><h2 class="p-name entry-title blog-post-title"><a href="posts/2009/11/10/s001-4e-2009-11-10/" class="u-url">4e, Session #1: Goblins and Villagers</a></h2>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">T. Kurt Bond</span></p>
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<section id="e-session-1-goblins-and-villagers"><h2>4e, Session #1: Goblins and Villagers</h2>
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<dt>version<span class="colon">:</span>
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<p>This is an <a class="reference external" href="http://www.actualplay.com/">actual play</a> report from our 4e <em>Dungeons and Dragons</em>
campaign. These actual play reports are available in <a class="reference external" href="categories/cat_gaming/actual-play/wvhtf/4e/">html</a> from
T.K.B.'s blog.</p>
<section id="attending"><h3>Attending</h3>
<p>Clockwise round the table, starting with the DM at 12 o'clock:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>M.A.F. as DM</p></li>
<li><p>P.D.F. playing Kelvish, the arrogant Eladrin wizard, and acting as scribe.</p></li>
<li><p>T.K.B. playing Grimnir, the reckless dwarf fighter.</p></li>
<li><p>B.MC. playing Wrathgar, the dragonborn paladin.</p></li>
<li><p>C.A.H. playing Angore, the indispensable human <strong>[¿is that right?]</strong> cleric.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>J.H. was unable to attend, alas.</p>
</section><section id="introduction"><h3>Introduction</h3>
<p>Since J.H. was unable to attend, and our regular campaign was at a
point where all the characters needed to be there, we switched and
played an alternate game, starting with the adventure from the 4e <a class="reference external" href="http://wizards.com/dnd/Product.aspx?x=dnd/products/dndacc/217120000">D&D
Roleplaying Game Starter Set</a>.</p>
</section><section id="actual-play-1"><h3>Actual Play</h3>
<p>Encounter 1: killed 2 goblins: 2 black blades. 10 cp, 40 gp. Found
map of village (Harken) with Cliff's Brewery circled.</p>
<p>Encounter 2: killed 2 fire beetles and several goblins, spent most of
our time in a cloud, wedged the door shut, and fled.</p>
<p>Interlude: Got the villagers all set up in the rundown stockade, ready
for the goblin assault. Bad guys left during the night.</p>
<p>Encounter 3: Loot the ancient evil tomb! Jar of healing potions, 5
doses. Long sword +1, evil. Studded, ceremonial high priest of demon.</p>
</section><section id="aftermath"><h3>Aftermath</h3>
<p>In after game discussion we decided that, although most of the
concerns we'd had about 4e were valid, we still had fun, and would
look forward to continuing this as a campaign when our regular 3.5 D&D
campaign couldn't run.</p>
<p>We each got <strong>+800 XP</strong>.</p>
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<p>We're playing Christopher Brackett's One Page Dungeon <cite>The Gray
Goblin Warrens</cite>, from the blog <a class="reference external" href="http://rustmonsteratemysword.blogspot.com/2009/06/care-for-another-magic-mushroom-theyre.html">A Rust Monster Ate My Sword</a>,
which can be found as part of <a class="reference external" href="http://chattydm.net/pdfs/OPDC2009.pdf">The One Page Dungeon Codex 2009</a>.
If you haven't played that you might want to skip this entry.</p>
</aside><section id="attending"><h2>Attending</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>T.K.B., the Labyrinth Lord</p></li>
<li><p>M.A., playing Niall, a cleric</p></li>
<li><p>L.B., playing Caramel, a halfling</p></li>
<li><p>T.A., playing Angrim, and Elf</p></li>
</ul></section><section id="overview"><h2>Overview</h2>
<p>This was another short session, and since one of the regular players
was missing (E.A.) I decided to run something other than B2.</p>
</section><section id="attempt-1"><h2>Attempt #1</h2>
<p>S, SE branch, to room <strong>S</strong>, attacked by Living Statues. Eventually
fled, jumping and pulling Caramel up, and back to town.</p>
</section><section id="attempt-2"><h2>Attempt #2</h2>
<p>S, W to S, to <strong>G</strong>, when attacked retreated to passage, then ran
through to SW branch, killed 2 goblins, then killed the 2 goblins from
other side who came up behind. <strong>Loot</strong>: 14 cp, 9 cp, 12 cp, 4 maces,
2 crossbows, 4 scale armor.</p>
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<aside class="admonition admonition-spoilers"><p class="admonition-title">Spoilers!</p>
<p>We're playing <em>Tomb of the Iron God</em>, so if you haven't
played that you might want to skip this entry.</p>
</aside><p>We had a little bit of time to play, but not all our usual players
were available, so we rolled up <cite>Swords & Wizardry</cite> characters, and
started down into the <strong>Tomb of the Iron God</strong>.</p>
<section id="attending"><h2>Attending</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>T.K.B., the Dungeon Master</p></li>
<li><p>M.B., playing (with T.K.B.'s help)
- Red Gorm, a human fighter</p></li>
<li><p>M.A., playing
- Bub, a male human cleric, soon surnamed the Naked for skinny dipping
- Cedric, a male human fighter</p></li>
<li><p>T.A., playing
- Nameless, a male human magic-user
- Wolfgar, a male human fighter</p></li>
<li><p>E.A., playing
- Errin' (as in erring), a female human fighter with a 3 INT
- Bob-Jo, a female human magic user</p></li>
</ul></section><section id="bathing-and-blood"><h2>Bathing and Blood</h2>
<p>E.A. had fun playing an immensely strong character with no sense at
all, clearing the steps down to the first level with ease, but taking
no care to avoid her comrades when flinging the boulders up out of the
stairs.</p>
<p>They were suitably creeped by out the goblin head in the entrance room,
but eventually moved on through the door to the left, and entered the
first room. There M.A. decided he was going to bathe in the fountain,
and stripped down to nothing and splashed about. The splashing and
the resultant argument attracted the attention of a couple of striges
resting in a large crack up near the ceiling, and before it was over
Bub was jumping around in combat naked and and Nameless was down to 1
hit point.</p>
<p>After that Bub got back into his clothes and armor.</p>
<p>And that was all we had time for that afternoon. Everybody seemed to
have fun.</p>
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<p><cite>Where Serpents Sleep</cite>, by C. S. Harris, copyright 2008 by The Two
Talers; Obsidian/New American Library/Penguin Group (USA)
Inc./Penguin Books Ltd.; November 2008; ISBN 987-0-451-22512-2.</p>
<p>A <em>Sebastian St. Cyr</em> mystery. The others are: <cite>What Angels Fear</cite>,
<cite>When Gods Die</cite>, and <cite>Why Mermaids Sing</cite>. (I think I've missed that
latter. Have to find it.)</p>
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Ltd.; November 2005; ISBN 0-451-21669-5.</p></li>
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