This is from the Tunnels & Trolls game I played on Friday afternoon. The GM is on the left and the other four players were a family. The young lad across the way was enjoying his first ever RPG. It was a lighthearted game and a lot of fun.
This picture is the group in my OD&D game on Saturday. We played through a slightly modified version of the Haunted Keep from Dragonsfoot. The guy on the right in the blue shirt was suppose to be DMing a 3.5 game that was cancelled so I waved him over and he decided to sit in. The gentleman next to him is K-Slacker and is in my Northern Marches campaign. It was the first OD&D experienced for all of the players. The session ended with four of the players dead and one charmed with about 15 minutes left if the allotted time. Everyone seemed to have fun.
I was scheduled to run another old school game this morning but Calgary awoke to
I went over to the hotel where convention was being held and you could tell that between it being the morning of the last day and the weather it was noticeably quieter. I spoke with the guy in charge of roleplaying games and he told me that attendance during the first morning session was down over 50%. He mentioned that my table was sold out but after waiting for a half-hour past the starting time no-one had showed up.
One thing I noticed, and I might have been extra sensitive to this since I was the only guy running old D&D, most of the talk I heard at tables running 3.5 or 4E was about which square to move to.
I had a good time in the Haunted Keep. Krank the Konjurer should have abandoned his allies and used his Phantasmal Forces spell to conceal his retreat during the final combat. If only he was Chaotic!
ReplyDeleteYou know... I think you could relocate the Haunted Keep to the North Marches now that it's been the scene of slaughter for PCs. Would help with the whole 'persistent campaign' thing.
ReplyDeleteActually, ditto for the caverns from the Sinister Secret of Whiterock. The North Marches can absorb interesting dungeons that were used as one-shots and previously unconnected to any campaign...
>>The North Marches can absorb interesting dungeons that were used as one-shots and previously unconnected to any campaign...<<
ReplyDeleteDon't worry. There are a bunch of published adventures that I have placed in the Northern Marches. After all, I am lazy.
Sounds like you had a good time...even though mother nature, and your time slot, conspired against you on the last day.
ReplyDeleteI run my LL game the same way. I've got tons of published (mostly FightOn and Knock Spell) adventures sprinkled throughout my wilderness. I find that having unrelated dungeons all over the place is fun, in that it's always a challenge to figure out how they're going to stumble across the clue to the next setting.