the other matt's rpg blog

  Session Notes (08/18/22 - 11/12/22) I’ve been busy but I haven’t been typing up my session notes! Dungeons & Dragons (5th edition) Almost every Wednesday since school started, the tabletop gaming club has met to play Dungeons and Dragons.  We’ve had a steady number of students each week.  One student has been running horde of the dragon queen for a dedicated group, whereas I’ve been running an open table game for the students that are more infrequent.  The game has been a rollercoaster, and I’m getting madder and madder at D&D for being D&D hah (I’m so tired of it!  I was tired of it 4 years ago!).  But there have been some highlights.  The best one for example being when the deck of many things was introduced and two players both drew “the sun” which raised them to 9th level immediately.  It was an exciting time and everyone was high fiving, which is basically the best possible outcome in a D&D game. UVG+TROIKA! My group of onli...

Session Notes (08/17/22) Game : D&D 5e Module : n/a Players : 4 I sponsor the D&D club at school and the kids play 5e.  We just started and we’ve got about 8 players and only one kid that can DM, so I take four  of them and try to keep the premise simple: it’s D&D! I built up a small sandbox / open table concept using the city guidelines from the alexandrian’s blog . Characters : Vi, plasmoid druid Valcrius, tiefling sorcerer Theodore, harongon sorcerer Astor, goliath barbarian Session : The characters arrived in Ottgar, and after briefly describing themselves, ended up at the Smoked Salmon, a waterlogged house for wayward adventurers.  They picked up a job from the notice board, and took a gondola up river to a neighborhood of wealthy citizens known as “The Whaleback”.  Here they found the house of the Wizard Geld, who hadn’t been heard from in quite some time.  Their job was to find out what happened to him. I’m going to just briefly gloss over the...