I haven't done one of these in a while. Time to get back into the habit. Today in my Swords and Wizardry game. The Kompanions of Kalador continued their exploration of the under-city of Nightside. A brief aside to get you caught up... Last session they took a little vacation from the travails of ruling a burgeoning …
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Super Short Game Report #3
Just two players. That's OK. The wizard is recovering. Stilgar the Chaos monk and Rexor the Demon Bug Man fly on their remaining trained roc accompanied by 100 of their cavalryman to take possession of the fort of the Porters of Gideon. Tarix has beaten them there. The Bud Knight and an invisible stalker have …
Super Short Game Report…IN SPAAAAAACE!
This week I had the rare treat of getting to play. One of the players in my weekly Swords and Wizardry game is a skilled sculptor. He ran a successful kickstarter for some modular terrain/dungeon tiles inspired by HR Giger's designs for Alien. Sunday's game was playing Mothership using his terrain tiles. We recorded the session so …
Super Short Game Report #2
We finished the last session with the players being ambushed in the fortress of an erstwhile ally and friend Laski the mage and Porters of Gideon (a group of knights from Knowledge Illuminates by Tim Shorts) The party bravely runs away, get back to where they parked their rocs and fly home. The party speculates about how …
Super Short Game Report #1
Celebrated a complete year of campaigning in Swords &Wizardry game. We've played roughly, 40-45 sessions. Beer, cider and ribs were consumed. Party leaves previous week's location having freed an efreet that had been imprisoned by some Githzerai in exchange for assistance in killing said Githzerai. Very little was looted due to the use of …
Tactics and Strategems
An excerpt from Me and My Kompanions: The Memoir of a Mercenary by Kaladar of New Kaladonia It does not behoove the kommander of a small force to seek battle against a powerful foe on an even, some would daresay honorable, field. Nay, you should most certainly always search out the unfair advantage when seeking to do …
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