Various things

G'day!

Well, the Giants of Legend spoilers are happily coming my way - at least I think they're happy - and my D&D campaign is going along well.

Meanwhile, Gary Gygax is inciting some uproar in the D&D/d20 community with his recent interview on Silven Crossroads. Oh well, it's a story I've seen before. Doesn't stop me from being interested in it, of course!

That made me want to look up some history of gaming, and that led me to this article: To Boldly Go which discusses the history of Board Games and the different variants thereof. Since I've played many of those games (or are at least familiar with them), it interested me. It's also really well written, so you might want to give it a look.

I haven't played D&D Miniatures for 12 days! There was a Magic tournament at my FLGS last Friday, and I was busy at work beforehand so no D&D Miniatures play was possible. I did buy one Archfiends booster and received my second Vampire Aristocrat. That has implications for my D&D RPG play.

The Magic tournament was the first I'd seen of the new Fifth Dawn cards. Unfortunately, the store had no Mirrodin packs so we were reduced to a DS/FD/FD booster draft. I did as badly as I've ever done in one of those drafts. I don't know FD well, and I miss not having a Mirrodin pack.

D&D on Sunday was more successful. The PCs have returned from the Astral Plane, and they've come to a small city named Cofston. (I made the name up on the spot, and I think it shows). I'm moving more towards a role-playing bent, so I invented NPCs who knew the PCs from their past. This allows me to focus on D'arcy and Lukas more than usual - normally Cassie takes up most of my attention.

D'arcy has the lion's share of this particular adventure. He has a friend in the Thieves' Guild and the guild is in trouble. It has a vampire killing all of its personnel. (Or worse, converting them to Vampire Spawn!)

That why I was happy to get another Vampire Aristocrat miniature, by the way.

Vampire Rogues have extremly high stealth skills, so I've had the vampire keep turning up and trying to get D'arcy to join him. Meanwhile, because of other deaths, D'arcy's now the Guildmaster. This is fun.

Julian (who played Blake the Paladin) is leaving for the U.S. today, so I'm down to three players. Hopefully he enjoyed the last session with us: I threw them against various Vampire Spawn and some Carytid Columns, as well as having quite a deal of role-playing.

I only managed to play one boardgame on Sunday, though: San Marco, which we like quite a bit. (I managed to win through some underhanded methods. Heh).

So, choir practice tonight, and I'll see if any more spoilers are around for tomorrow morning.