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With our 4th gaming session completed (Carrion Crown YouTube Playlist), the group is making rapid progress thru the storyline – at least rapid compared to prior campaigns. Crunching the numbers, our previous campaigns averaged about 12 sessions of 5 hours per Chapter, for the 6 chapter storyline. For Rise of the Runelords, that comes out to roughly 360 hours of game time, or about 3 years of calendar time. For our Age of Ashes campaign, we tended to keep to the same basic pace. For the Carrion Crown, with a number of more recent game policies and changes, we have…
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Updated link for the next session of our Carrion Crown live play streaming, scheduled for this Sunday at 2 PM EST. The group is starting their exploration of the Harrowstone Prison, having determined that there is quite a bit of threat in the location. With information granted from the ghost of Vesorianna, the dead wife of the old warden, they now have a direction to take, to remove the haunts and threats to the local area. To catch up, be sure to review any of the prior sessions in the playlist
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Been recently inspired and interested in the possibility of a Call of Cthulhu based rpg game. Admittedly, not sure where I would fit it in on the currently packed schedule, so it would likely be later this year (after football season), and in truth I have never actually run that game system. However, I have always had the impression of it being a very solid option, and very strong in horror and occult gaming. The ability to use the system in any time period is also particularly of interest. Right now, my focus is on the 7th edition of the…
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Ages ago, we used to play World of Warcraft extensively, and were initially guild members and then eventually guild leaders (RIP Stargazers and Juggernauts). This occupied many years, many expansions, and untold hours of effort. However, as time moved on, the friends we met drifted off, and the content lost its shine and interest. Warcraft is still a big game, but we gave up on it shortly after the kids arrived, though we do occasionally revisit here an there. However, there is a new game coming out (supposedly September 28, 2021, though it has been delayed a few times) that…
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Shifting away from the gaming news to more of a home improvement topic, to show off some of the garage workshop improvements we have been working on. This also doubles as my location for the resin 3d printer, so it is sort of relevant. As is typical, when we moved in, the garage became a common dumping ground for all the miscellaneous items – boxes, tools, spare parts, etc gathered in the space. The plan had always been to set half of the garage as a workspace, and initially I made some progress with a work table, but then stalled…
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The final book of our Carrion Crown prop collection is a bit of a mystery to the group. It is presented as a locked tome, bound in leather, and in good condition – unlike most of the rest of the items. On the cover, is a single golden scarab, but no other notes or indicators. For the prop, my prop master collected a lot of specific, custom material – I am not going to go into detail here, since my group may be reading. But the content is general is similar in scope to that of the other props. What…
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With the recent Labor Day holiday in the US, I had the chance to revisit a favorite game with my son and play some more Armada. In truth, it was originally planned to be a game or two of X-Wing 2, but during assembly we discovered that several of the key pieces have gone missing. So we defaulted to Armada instead. My son opted to go back to the Empire again, fielding a basic force of Imperial Star Destroyer, Interdictor Star Destroyer, and Gladiator Star Destroyer, along with a large swarm of TIE fighters and bombers, and a single VT-49…
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The next in our line of props for our Carrion Crown campaign is the book entitled Serving Your Hunger – intended as a religious book and reference for the cult of Urgathoa. Functionally, a diety of cannibals, this was the one which the prop master likely spent the most effort to flesh out. The book itself is described as bound with metal plates – in our case we did thick card stock, colored to resemble rusty metal. The pages were stained roughly with coffee, leaving a lingering scent, and then the overall collection was stitched together by hand. Several of…
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