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Ah yes, Glimmermark session 47: my players carefully managed to investigate the city ruins in the swamp they managed to discover last time, trying to find the despoiled temple of Chthon. This involved first having to find some boats to get there.

(Mind you, they could have walked through the swamp, but as they last time encountered a large groups of ghouls they were disinclined to do so)

With a big open world in , I've found my players outlevel some of the content but still get FOMO about missing it.

What if... higher level characters hired new adventurers to go handle that stuff? Spin up another table in the same game world or shift the narrative focus to a new party now and then 🤔

Well, we cleared out the Batcave, but it was a tough one! I used almost every special ability, cleaned out both my wands, and had 2x1st and 1x2nd level spells left. We're 11th level.

Our "front line" (monk and wizard (don't ask)) went down every round after the 3rd. And I kept bringing them back up. Which was the only reason I wasn't dead too. They just soaked the damage. Every. Round. The GM is clever and doesn't pull his punches.

Unfortunately, our sorcerer is

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While on break I had a chat with my wife about tonight's game. Where the party's at, what they'll likely do next, what the NPCs are up to. I can help prep scenes in the background as we get a feel for where it's headed. Looking forward to riding the sidecar!

finished reading Domains of dread by Steve Miller

Steve Miller: Domains of dread (1997) No rating

There have been a number of different incarnations of #Ravenloft over the years. This one is pretty good as a comprehensive setting overview, although the "dark grey on black" maps were abysmal.

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Trying to rejigger our schedule across timezones and fuuuuck me. Why couldn't we have just adopted Swatch ™️ Internet Time in the 90s?

In two months we celebrate our 20th birthday - but earlier this week (the same day Carnevale ended and the new lunarsolar year began) marked the 19th anniversary of our very first performance under the banner of The Confused Greenies and i Verdi Confusi! Appropriate for the occasion, that was also staged to entertain Carnevale at our alma mater Case Western Reserve University! And over 450 performances since then!

F 19: Our featured creator is an avid gamer. Does gaming affect your creativity?

I make tabletop games for fun and I also DM a homebrew D&D campaign. So of course games affect my creativity!

For me, I think creativity derives from play, all the way back to make-believe as a child. Taking on other roles, building narratives, and creating structure for play (or games if you will) comes from the joy of childhood play. There’s a thread that stretches to now.