I’m running a campaign based in Waterdeep (Dungeons and Dragons – Forgotten Realms) where-in the characters are thieves or damn close to (bards and priests of Mask, god of thieves) and it is shaping up to be fun, fun, fun.

The characters can go on thieving ‘missions’ above ground, wander randomly and get into trouble in the city or hit Undermountain and dungeon delve. There is a lot of fun and a lot of old school D&D action here with modern sensebilities. Here is the start I projected…

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Start

As a group you’ve been running around together in Waterdeep for a little over a year. Meeting through various ways you discovered…like minded principles and have taking to working together as a group or in teams to achieve your goals where possible. As the months progressed, especially during the lean times of winter the gang really had to lean on one another. There were threats of eviction here or the brief capture by the Watch for one of you at one point, things were looking grim.

But then a big score, a crafty dockside warehouse hit and a good deal with a local fence netted the group a good deal of money and a few interesting items. The future looks bright and thoughts of setting up a team ‘sanctuary’ of sorts starts to sound like a good idea. After the brief earthquake that shakes the city a few of you have some other ideas as well.

It’s time to move, spring is flowering and the caravans are rolling. The time for thievery is now; how far you want to take it is your choice.

It is quotes like the one bellow that keep me reading Warren Ellis.

“No, no, we need umpty million quid to look for fucking great holes, why on earth would we want to cure cancer, the common cold or Frenchness?”

So, I’ve been developing my alternate persona/future halloween costume of Los Manos. I’ve finally found a luchador mask I like and ordered it. Now I am going to have to go get fitted for a three piece suit. After that I’m going to have to buy some dress leather gloves (I am Los Manos after all) and some shoes to go with the suit.

But oooooh baby, when I get all that together I am going to look AWESOME!

This has got to be one of the funniest things I have seen on the internets in a long time.

I finally got around to framing and hanging my monsters and I think they turned out rather spiffy.

Yeeeee haaaaw! I am Slim Pickens riding the A-bomb! It’s game night 6! (Now with pictures!)

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Game night 6 was a crowded affair. We had a new face (wha’sup Ed), the KC crew and the locals, Team Cthulhu is growing mighty. There was enough sandwich and snack stuff on hand to feed a small army (in light of the heat, etc. the sandwich bar seemed to be the way to go). Libations were prepared and the game area made ready.

The KC crew, the host and I had to watch the train wreck which was the SciFi channel movie ‘Inferno’ before we could start. It was almost hypnotic in its’ badness. Once that was over, as usual we decided to open up with a round or two of Munchkin to get into the mindset.

When you use all the expansions you have a ridiculous amount of cards.

We played two rounds both won by this guy.

The straight up gangsta known as the M.I.T.C.H.

For a change up we decided to spend the rest of the night role play gaming instead of doing the board/card thing. (We’re just going to have to flat out say "this is a HorrorClix only night" to make HorrorClix happen.) With Craig running Year of the Zombie using the D20 Modern rule set.We’ve played this before and I have to say I really like what the YotZ folks are up to. D20 modern is a decent system as well I think and suits the game.

We drew random characters from a pile.

And discovered we were all special forces guys being sent on a mission into the Central American jungles to bag a terrorist leader and rescue some hostages. Helicopter sounds and Predator references followed. I was one of the co-leaders of the group (Cory was the main guy) and the groups’ doctor. After being shot down about a half a mile from where our dust off area was supposed to be we had to do some re-thinking about how we were going to approach the enemy stronghold and meet our mission objectives.

Fortunately we had some electronic intel and photos that helped us with some hard decisions.

Our host/tormentor made the action fast and furious when we hit the camp.

And I managed to take the leader down in the tunnels beneath the compound with a shot to the weapon hand (and a natural 20 roll, WOOT!). About this time the zombies showed up and things got REALLY tricky, terrorists on one side and the undead on the other.

About this time some of the crew needed to take off and we had to break the action. Did we find the hostages, will the undead devour us all, can we squeeze even more people into a basement? Check back for the next…

Game Night!

We had a lightning storm last night and counting backwards for things I need to replace or have.

DSL modem.

Router with wireless access point

Ethernet card on my shuttle

Ethernet card on my Thermaltake

Possibly my Xbox 360 (need to take it to a friends house to test it)

two netgear switches

ethernet card on a computer I was building for my friend.

So far, first thing I replaced the DSL modem and (obviously) I am back on line on my grunt IBM thinkpad (this thing could survive armageddon). I will replace everything else ad hoc…sigh.

Soooooooooooo……

Game night is a week off. I want to push for HorrorClix and Pirates! Mostly because I don’t play Clix enough and I’ve never played Pirates! in spite of spending a chunk of change on the game. I’m sure there will be a few rounds of Munchkin, our host got all exited by the western edition that is coming out and I am going to snag the Call of Cowthulhu.

I was thinking steaks for the day but the wind has changed and I am thinking home made chili dogs with ball park franks. I dunno, stupid hot chili and 100+ degree temperatures make sense to me in some sort of masochistic sense.

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OK the internet thing. My old buddy (and former Sprint minion like myself) Grodog, directed a guy to me. I’ve since emailed and offered invites to Team Cthulhu events as well as other role playing discussion. It is weird randomness like this that makes me love the interweb.

I got and watched Babylon 5: The Lost Tales yesterday.

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Anyway, it was great to see B5 live again. I have to say though, both episodes were a bit on the short side and I felt the second act was stronger than the first. Seeing the station in new CGI was a treat, as were the smallish ship combats, etc.

The extras were great and the tributes to Richard Biggs and Andreas Katsulas were nicely done. I challenge anyone NOT to stare in horror at Tracy Scoggins’ neck every time she speaks though. I swear it was like something from a Giger painting.

Just wanted to remind everyone that even though the summer is still winding down, there is still enough time left to ROCK OUT!