Legend of the Five Rings

Not a great lot to talk about. First session, character creation and bedding in playing our various clan roles.

We have a Phoenix Shujenja, a Lion Bushi, Dragon Monk and for myself, a Bayushi Scorpion.

We have all the clan books we need and all the players.

One of our group helped the session by serving rice crackers and sake - long may that continue. How the hell the Japanese ever managed to fight drunk on sake is beyond me!

Rolemaster - Thats Roll Master to You

Well the penultimate session of Rolemaster has been completed, and everything is back on track.

Having met a brutal wall of violence in the previous session they decided to walk away from the Freeport 2nd part and pursue something to amuse themselves. With a cleric losing her faith I had help from a fellow player in getting the party back on track, but in the meantime I still had to deal with getting them finished with Freeport.

I told them that there is a 3rd part, and that Im putting it on hold after the 2nd part to give another GM a shot (L5R 3rd Edition), and will return once that has been finished.

I did give them a break, but with a proviso of which they have no clue about.....................

Rolemaster vs The Party

After having beaten the party up from pillar to post for the last 8 weeks, they are finally approaching 2nd level, and are having second thoughts about entering any form of violent combat for fear of critical hits.

So

Rolemaster 1
The Party 0

I have actually been really mean to them, but given them a break once (when the dice result was too severe), but they have suffered some very severe breaks of their own.

RPG Quote of the Day

If the players don't amuse the GM, then the GM will amuse himself at their expense.

--Dave Arneson

Rolemaster <> StarFleet Commander

We didnt play Rolemaster on Sunday. Usual Summer holiday interruptions. 1 player at a Kung Fu summer camp and the other woke up nursing a hangover from hell.

2 players and a DM is a bit too hard to handle, so we had the choice to cancel or try something new. One of our group is a keen wargamer and boardgamer, and at short notice whipped out StarFleet Commander, a slightly simplified version of Star Fleet Battles and had a ton of fun all the same.

w00hoo (86.152.93.183)

13th Aug, 2007 14:58 (local)

Hmm, no that two player feeling, we're in the same boat with our fortnightly game in Tonbridge. About to give UKRoleplayers another hit with an 'any players' request. I've been running the Serenity with two players for it's length apart from the odd 'guest appearance' and it's do-able but not great, makes a lot more work for everyone and I prefer gaming not to feel like work too much! It'll not be enough for the Buffy game when the Serenity finishes though...

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lawbag (62.69.73.216)

13th Aug, 2007 16:34 (local)

I ran a Werewolf campaign for 8 players. Got the short end of the straw whilst running it during the summer months and in 4 sessions, I ran the campaign I had 4 different pairs of players. Keeping the story continuity going was a nightmare, and the end of game scenario was attended by two players who were clueless as to the events happening around them.

I ran a Victorian Age Werewolf story, and it was a mixture of Sherlock Holmes, Mage and Call of Cthulhu.

Serenity works only with multiple players, anything less than 4 and you are really struggling.

The golden rule is, the less players you have, the quicker you burn through the material.

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lawbag (62.69.73.216)

13th Aug, 2007 16:35 (local)

On a separate note, not really a Buffy fan, but I do understand the game has some interesting gaming concepts.

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Rolemaster Continues

I am really enjoying running my Rolemaster campaign. A straight up mixture of classic high and low fantasy, borrowing heavily from 1st, 2nd and 3rd edition (A)DND modules. I chose RM as it is a system I know and love, and enjoy the thrill of random combat, especially its legendary critical tables. But I choose the DND modules as it represents classic Dragons and Dungeon type adventures, neither of which ICE (publishers of RM) managed to encompass.

I have the Freeport trilogy well under way as I enjoy town based adventures, but as a short interlude we are going to be playing the Warlock or Firetop Mountain DND3.5 conversion by Myriador Games.

Once that is over, they will return to Freeport for the 2nd and subsequent parts, and I have an itch then to take them through either the Drow War Trilogy or the Temple of Elemental Evil. I believe Im up for running both with ease as I have a good group, albeit only 4 players, but no one has yet to have played in any of these adventures so far.

I wont be writing an actual play of the events as (a) it doesnt really matter what we do I doubt many people will be interested and (b) I dont think the events of the game are worthy of a write up. I tend to reserve write-ups to games I create out of my head and those developed by the players.

So I Started Gaming Again...

No this isnt a smoking story, but a great feeling akin to smoking, in that our group is back together again. After last weeks character generation session, this week we began our first full on session, which despite reading the adventure, turned into one long ad-lib session.

Its Rolemaster, but running classic ADND, DND and 3rd Edition DND adventures for that dungeon crawling, dragon-slaying feeling. After a couple of dodgy moments I feel in control and back in the swing of things again.

As always, now the adventure is underway, let the rule-reading begin.