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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Remembering the Northern Marches

Well, hello there. Long time no see.

It has been awfully quiet around here the last while. I have been settling into my new job for the last couple of months and dealing with all of the kids summertime activities. I have been coaching my daughter's softball team and my son's soccer team.

With all the stuff going on the last while my level of gaming has declined dramatically. I am still DMing my 2nd edition AD&D game using Paizo's Rise of the Runelords. However, I have been woefully deficient in updating my blog about the campaign. I have really been enjoying it.

However, one thing I miss is my old Northern Marches game. Looking back the last session I DM'ed of that campaign was a year ago now. Looking back I know I made a number of mistakes with that campaign (primarily with the treasure level) but I sure enjoyed it. While the 2E campaign is really enjoyable, B/X is my favourite version of D&D for a reason (actually a number of reasons).

Also, my attempt to get Red Box Calgary going has also stalled due to my home and work activities. I am hoping to reboot it in the fall at which time I might try to restart the Northern Marches.

3 comments:

  1. The summer's gonna be a wash, although I think i'll be getting some gaming in while i'm at the cabin.

    Hope the new job is interesting and rewarding!

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  2. Sorry to be nosey, but when you say treasure level, do you mean too much or not enough? I've started a B/X campaign and treasure level is something I'm really curious about.

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  3. Not being nosey at all.
    Too little treasure. This resulted in too slow advancement since gp = xp. It also, inadvertently resulted in too high of a mortality rate as players were unwilling to spend gold on retainers.

    I made some posts in the past about this.

    http://ode2bd.blogspot.com/2009/05/northern-marches-reaches-another.html

    and

    http://ode2bd.blogspot.com/2009/06/colour-of-money.html

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