RPG game night with Dwarven Forge set!

Hey Geekshelfers!  The Pixar lads had another great roleplaying session last night after work.  We all chipped in recently to buy several boxes of the Dwarven Forge playset to enhance our roleplaying sessions and we finally  used it for the first time last night.  It was a BLAST!

Here are a couple of pics of the playsets all laid out shortly after being purchased! 

Photo courtesy of Jtop

 ....and another:

Phtoto courtesy of Jtop

The pieces are all very sturdy and well made, as well as having a beautiful paint job applied to it.  When you see your minis walking through the set, it really does make it that much more immersive.

As for the game, Everett's been running a Dragon Age campaign that saw our characters (an elf, a dwarf, and a human) investigating a band of cultists who have been kidnapping and killing children.

Everett sets up the lair..

Our characters rescued a family in need and after following more clues, tracked down the cultists to this final location!

the layout of the cultist hideout!

We cut down several cultists and head upstairs only to discover the ringleader of it all: the seductive Lady Brianna!

the last cultist goes down!

Lady Brianna entranced the elf but the characters were eventually able to break free of her charms and cut her down!

Lady Brianna defeated! 

Overall, the session proved to be quite fun and we'll definitely be using the Dwarven Forge sets again!

Happy Gaming!

And so it begins!

Recently been immersing myself in the Dark Heresy core rulebook.  There's ALOT of information to digest here including weapons, worlds, powers, history, etc. in this here tome but I'm determined to get this played by early next year.  

The emperor protects!

Valora

Hey Bloggers, here's a sketch i did of Valora, the elven cleric I'm playing in our weekly Dungeons & Dragons 4e campaign.  At the moment, I'm playing her as an icy, level-headed priestess / warrior that has the stature of command, deeply religious, but at the same time doesn't mince words and VERY deadly with her mace.

Valora, the elven cleric

As many of you know, I usually get together with a few guys here once a week after work for a weekly boardgame/RPG night and I have to say, its a great way to get together, throw ideas around, have some laughs and just let off some creative steam over a few beers.

This past week saw our characters going into a cavern where we encountered a band of goblins (one of which Valora killed with her trusty Mace for 12 hit points).  Our party also ran into a few gigantic rats which we easily disposed of and a Dragon that sent us on a mission to kill a certain mysterious fellow within the dark caverns (more on this next week)!

One of the more challenging battles happened when we walked into a room looking for the mysterious stranger only to happen upon a room full of these living statues that we had to fight on a chess-patterned floor.  If you moved onto the wrong square ,  ZAP! you'd get an electric shock and have to take 5hp worth of damage.    The battle was drawn out but we were able to defeat everyone in the room, partially thanks to Valora's healing ability.

After realizing late last week that Valora needed a long range weapon, I was finally able to pick up a bow and arrow from one of the dead goblins in this session.  I was pretty thankful for that since I usually love playing long-range rogues and Valora's HP are not really suited to close quarters combat for too long anyway.

I always pictured Valora being played by Tilda Swinton. She looks like she could kick some ass, huh?!

Even though the first few sessions saw a few players ragging on the 4th edition rules, and World Of Warcraft comparisons being slung around mockingly, I'm really impressed with the new D&D redbox adventure so far.  With a great GM like Everett,  it does its job of throwing you right into a fun adventure that ramps up slowly but with enough excitement to make you want to continue on.  It's a great way to introduce D&D to the uninitiated yet stay true to what made it popular in the first place.  Can't ask for more than that, right?

Anyway, stay tuned for more updates soon!  Happy Gaming everyone!

Last night after work.....

Me and the boys hunkered down for our weekly game night.  Everett wanted to get back to basics so he started running a new D&D campaign with the recently released Starter Set.

My character is an Elven Cleric named Valora.   She's got loads of magical healing abilities and an INSANE mace that ended up taking down a couple of baddies even though I was rolling shitty half the time.

We left off going into a cave and nearly getting wiped out by a couple of goblins and a drake which we ended up locking in a room.

You know that dragon is a badass cuz it only has ONE horn on it's head.  Can't even be bothered with two.

stay tuned for our further adventures...