I’ve been tagged by Melmoth to write ‘Five Reasons Why I Blog’. I’ll assume this is ‘Five Reasons Why I Blog About Gaming’, although it probably won’t change my answers.
First, I like to write. I enjoy language, despite being terrible at learning anything outside of English, and am continually amazed and intrigued by [...]
Leaving a dungeon is generally easier than entering it, mostly because adventuring parties tend to kill or destroy everything on the way in and leave by the same path. Our daring escape was no different. We wander through empty corridors and rooms, dodge the occasional trap with ease, and open doors locked by [...]
We are still in the room with a caged demonic entity. It seems like we’ve been here for days, but as the monster looks like it wants to eat our spleens and the woman we’ve come here to rescue is lying unconscious in the same cage we find ourselves in something of a dilemma. [...]
The monster in the cage does not speak a language common to us.
‘Can you cast Tongues on me?’
‘No, it’s personal.’
‘Oh, please? I didn’t mean to use your face soap to wash my buttocks.’
‘No, I don’t mean I don’t like you, ‘personal’ is the range of the spell.’
Defeating the naga, we find our way to an exit from the twisty passages. Fortunately, this exit leads to a room that contains the kidnapped woman we’ve been looking for. Not quite so fortunately, she is unconscious and in a cage that also contains a huge demonic-looking monster with a monstrous weapon. [...]
We find ourselves in a mazy of twisty little passages, all alike. Metrius, our increasingly-difficult-to-describe Dwarf Paladin/Warrior/Barbarian/Mounted Warrior (I’ll just call him a Paladin), has a sure-fire way to get through these things: always turn left. Thinking about it, this seems uncannily like his normal way of adventuring, which is to take the [...]