gizmomathboy wrote:

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gary/gygax

You're giving away my secrets! ILLUSIONS, Michael!

gizmomathboy wrote:

I have some extra tickets to get rid of. I'll hold onto them until Friday and turning them back in this Saturday Feb 13.

I have:

1 Kinstrife Chainmail, Thursday 6pm

1 Beyond the Ice Fall, Thursday 2pm

1 Sea Wolf's Daughter, Friday 8pm

All that is left now is 1 Kinstrife ticket.
 

Forgot to add this to Handy's give away list.

-- Fri. 2-6 pm: Swords & Wizardry: Death for Taxes

Yeah, I'll do the same for my one ticket of Kinstrife.

DMPrata wrote:

I'll take A Long Walk Home if you still have it, Handy. Does anyone want a ticket for Secrets under Stonebrook (C&C) in the same time slot?

Dave, I'll check and see if Em had a chance to return that one.

Handy Haversack wrote:

Caught her just in time! It's all yours.

Cool! Thanks. Now I'll try to return Secrets under Stonebrook back to the pool before tomorrow morning. I'd rather play AS&SH than C&C any day of the week.

That's awesome, Handy. I love it when a plan comes together.

Making progress on my preparation for Gary Con, thankfully, including the two most important components:

- Fully redrawn, renumbered and touched up maps, including over 80 numbered locations on the island and its dungeon levels. You will not be able to explore the entire location in a four hour session, but I'll be providing some clues and map fragment handouts that should enable the group to select some entertaining, achievable short-term goals. Kudos to Welleran for giving me this idea - it worked well in his megadungeon-based convention games.

- Created 20 pregens, including 8 fighters (two fighters, two barbarians, two berzerkers, one ranger, one warlock), 4 magicians (a magician, necromancer, cryomancer, pyromancer), 4 clerics (two clerics, one druid, one shaman) and 4 thieves (one thief, legerdemainist, scout and bard). They all have some cool magical items that should make things interesting. You're level 7-8 out of 12 possible, so you will have accumulated some good stuff (magical swords, rings, wands, scrolls, laser pistols - maybe even a flame thrower!). Again, anyone who wants to bring their own PC should PM me and I'll work with you beforehand.

Still have to finish some odds/ends, but looking good overall. I really hate having to prepare on site - sucks to be in your room getting stuff ready when you could be catching up with folks. See everyone soon!

Chainsaw wrote:

Making progress on my preparation for Gary Con, thankfully, including the two most important components:

- Fully redrawn, renumbered and touched up maps, including over 80 numbered locations on the island and its dungeon levels. You will not be able to explore the entire location in a four hour session, but I'll be providing some clues and map fragment handouts that should enable the group to select some entertaining, achievable short-term goals. Kudos to Welleran for giving me this idea - it worked well in his megadungeon-based convention games.

- Created 20 pregens, including 8 fighters (two fighters, two barbarians, two berzerkers, one ranger, one warlock), 4 magicians (a magician, necromancer, cryomancer, pyromancer), 4 clerics (two clerics, one druid, one shaman) and 4 thieves (one thief, legerdemainist, scout and bard). They all have some cool magical items that should make things interesting. You're level 7-8 out of 12 possible, so you will have accumulated some good stuff (magical swords, rings, wands, scrolls, laser pistols - maybe even a flame thrower!). Again, anyone who wants to bring their own PC should PM me and I'll work with you beforehand.

Still have to finish some odds/ends, but looking good overall. I really hate having to prepare on site - sucks to be in your room getting stuff ready when you could be catching up with folks. See everyone soon!

Sounds great!  I play-tested the two new adventures I'm running and my home group got about half way finished in 3.5 hours.  I think the guys at home game / play at "campaign pace" meaning the rate of adventure moves much more slowly.  I removed a couple areas completely and they still didn't finish.  I feel as though the players at GC will be much more goal oriented.  I'm leaving the adventures a little thick with the ability to thin on the fly.

Morgan
 

Chainsaw wrote:

Handy Haversack wrote:

What method did you use to pregenerate the pregens?

The old fashioned way, with beer, dice, a pencil and paper. I thought about using one of the great automated programs that people have built, but I knew working through the pregens by hand would force me to review a lot of rules and abilities and things. Plus, I wanted to assign a bunch of specific items so that choosing between the characters might pose some dilemma for the group. Do you want that legerdemainist who has thief abilities and a few good spells? Or the straight up thief who has Slippers of Spider Climbing? Do you want the magician with a diverse mix of spells and a Wand of Paralysis, but AC 9? Or the pyromancer with a ton of firepower and a Ring of Protection that grants him AC 0? Do you want the barbarian with a Sun Blade - or the berzerker with a Great Axe of Decapitation? Of course, the straight up fighter has a Laser Pistol, which ain't too shabby either. That sort of thing. Now that I have the base sheets built, I'll make four copies at Kinko's and be ready to rock and roll.

mabon5127 wrote:

Sounds great!  I play-tested the two new adventures I'm running and my home group got about half way finished in 3.5 hours.  I think the guys at home game / play at "campaign pace" meaning the rate of adventure moves much more slowly.  I removed a couple areas completely and they still didn't finish.  I feel as though the players at GC will be much more goal oriented.  I'm leaving the adventures a little thick with the ability to thin on the fly.

I had a terrific time in your game a few years ago and really regret missing it this year. I'm sure it will be fun! Also, totally agree on playtesting. Thankfully capitalbill humored me through a couple of playtests of my material, helping me figure out where to improve it. I'm hoping for a ton of feedback from Gary Con as well. Should be good!
 

Capitalbill seems to be the kind of guy that could give useful feedback.  I have one guy in the play-test that runs as well and I value his opinion but he isn't critical enough so I try to assess by laughing and attention level which was pretty good. See you in about a week.