Archive for September, 2004

Circus folk: nomads, you know. Smell like cabbage. Small hands.

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

We went to a circus! Okay, so we were investigating something and were poking around a bit, but we also got time to watch a show and even bluffed our way behind the scenes, letting us sniff around inside to see if we could spot anything amiss. It was all jolly good [...]

From the Archives: Gnome vs. Ankheg

Monday, September 27th, 2004

I was playing Wise Greebo the Cleric, whom I have mentioned before, and was camping with the rest of my party overnight out in the wilderness. When I was sleeping happily, probably dreaming of being at one with Garl Glittergold, an Ankheg or two attacked. Everyone was woken by whoever happened to be [...]

Have You Been Drinking, Sir?

Friday, September 24th, 2004

Stopping at a village for the night, on our travels to a town, our Mage, he of the great Intelligence, looks for an Inn. He pops in to one and asks, ‘Do you serve alcohol?’
It takes a keen intellect to think of these things.

D20 vs. D4

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Our Fighter failed his crucial saving throw against Mummy Rot again, rolling a natural 1. Meeting a Harpy later on, on our travels, gave him another chance to fail some saving throws, as he rolled below 4 for both his own saving throw and that for his mount against the Harpy’s Charming singing. [...]

Temporal Anomaly

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

The party woke up in the morning with the Fighter gaining one point back to his Con from the mysterious disease (as we know nothing in-game about Mummies and Mummy Rot), only to fail his Saving Throw, rolling a natural 1, to lose 3 Con and 3 Cha. Oops. As such, we decide [...]

From the Archives: Gnome to Stone

Monday, September 20th, 2004

Writing of high Wisdom characters inevitably reminds me my Gnome Cleric, Greebo (character sheet), as a Cleric’s main ability score is Wisdom, for spellcasting, and so are normally the wisest members of a party. In particular, I am reminded of the time when Greebo the Wise happened upon a block of stones set in [...]