#303

Books

No books this week, because I got back into Baldurs Gate 3 and wasted all my evenings.

Roleplaying Games

No regular games this week, I was off visiting some friends for the weekend for an RPG weekend! A friend-of-a-friend wanted to try out D&D, so we ran three games, of which only one was D&D (naturally).

I ran two games

Firstly, the Traveller scenario “High and Dry”, in which the party are granted use of a scout ship for free, but first they need to go pick it up. Hijinks ensue. They did a pretty good job actually—only three people died and a few refugees got mauled by a feral wolf-dog—but putting that aside, the party are now big damn heroes in a town on a tiny backwater planet.

Secondly, I ran a short scenario for The One Ring based on what I will be using to introduce our regular Friday game. I’d hoped to be two sessions into that campaign by now, so I wasn’t introducing a bunch of new people to a game I’d not played before myself; but things turned out the way they did, and it was fine. I’m sure I got a bunch of rules wrong, but I kept the game flowing, and that’s what really matters.

Next week is going to be packed with action: two Arden Vul sessions (one of them is today’s session, rescheduled), and the start of The One Ring campaign.

Miscellaneous

I got back into Baldurs Gate 3 this week! This is my second time playing, as on my first attempt I got stuck at the big Ketheric Thorm / Avatar of Myrkul battle at the end of Act 2.

It turns out the game is way easier if you don’t skip all the side-quests, and so don’t arrive at the big fight with a level 5 party who all have rubbish gear.

Who’d have thought.