Save vs. Total Party Kill

I am sure many of have fallen into the same spiral Elmcat describes in Death of a Hobby.

I’m back from Victoria!

I just got back from Ottawa for work.

My friends and I have almost wrapped up our first Blood Bowl league.

I am sad to learn about the passing of John Blanche.

Last summer Games Workshop released the 3rd edition of Horus Heresy.

It is our patriotic duty to buy Canadian Mothership modules.

I find it hilarious that there are two OSR blogging webrings you can join if you are so inclined.

Once again the keying of dungeons is the topic of day.

Is Luke Gearing too powerful?

The original DCC RPG zine is back, bigger than ever.

I’ve migrated this site from Jekyll to Hugo, something I’ve wanted to do for ages, but haven’t been assed to do till now.

My friend moved to New York City for work.

Clayton has done an amazing job organizing the Bloggies this year.

An interesting post from Clayton discusses what he calls Dominant Mechanics: “Dominant Mechanics are rules that cannot co-exist in a system without monopolizing play and overriding other rules.”

Press the Beast shared a criticism I enjoyed of some parts of the OSR, and the obsession with products as the output of the hobby.

The man that brought you Fuck You Design brings you a rant about fancy-ass zines: “Am I language policing here?

I spent a little bit of time over the last two days getting ready to play Mythic Bastionland.

I have written about keying dungeons in the past, when discussing Dwimmermount, and when talking about Deep Carbon Observatory.

Long time readers may recall I had started an Arthurian Dark Souls sort of setting I never finished called Misericorde.

The past year ended up being the biggest year of blogging on this site.

I have wanted to buy a copy of Crown of Salt for ages.

Back in 2024 I decided to track all of my purchasing and painting of minis.

Whenever I say Warcry is the best game Games Workshop has made, someone always chirps up to reply that I am wrong, that title belongs to Blood Bowl.

This isn’t the focus of your article, but it feels really good to see someone saying that their longest campaign lasted 23 sessions over roughly a year and a half.

Masters of Carcosa is the longest campaign I have run.

And so we come to the end.

This session was all about trying to make friends.

More slaver killing antics, as the party heads north to investigate rumours of slaver activity.

Another session with no treasure, which was starting to become a point of tension with the players.

The players decide to head East, further into the territory friendly with the Jale Slavers.

The previous session the players rolled a 1 on the Hazard Die when travelling back to town.

I forgot the man himself Daniel Dean also made an appearance during this campaign.

Some important discoveries this session.

The players had their home base in Invak, and had a strong relationship with the merchant town to the south, Jahar.

As you’ll see in the comments, I had been reading Blood Meridian, and the book and its mood started seeping into the game.

This session the players explored the rest of the Space Alien outpost.

My Carcosa-style recap of this session was as follows: The Bone Man sorcerer, The Dominant Reflection (AC 16, MV 90’, HD 4, Chaotic) has taken over the abandoned Space Alien outpost, along with a sizeable group of Bone Men cultists.

This is the first session Chris P joined the fight.

I remember this session really well, because it was another weird one.

The players had found a Space Alien compass in an earlier session and decided to see where it would lead them.

Sam Pearson is the person behind two of Games Workshop’s greatest games: Warcry & Spearhead.

… the leader of Invak would pay for the heads of Jale Slavers, and so the game because all about hunting the slavers and chopping of their heads.

I came close to going the whole year without playing a single game of Mordheim, but a visiting gamer from Vancouver put the call out to see if anyone in our Mordheim league was free to play while he was in town.

The caverns the party explore this session were another way I had imagined to get the party out of the region they were in.

The party finally visits the merchant town to the South, Brown Man village of Jahar.

The session began with exploration and learning more about the world.

Almost a full month since our last game!

The party had been told rumours that there were healers to the south that could heal Gus’s character of his terrible mutations.

My first session of Masters of Carcosa only included 2 players, Gus and Eric.