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Chris the Human

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  • Birthday 02/12/1983

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    Tbilisi, Georgia
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    Travel, D&D, Skyrim, Neverwinter, LOTRO, DDO, TTRPG design

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  1. Room for one more in that one if you fancy a free session zero.
  2. Wahey! Which one was it? I've got ten on the boil at the moment. I do offer a free session zero if ever you're keen to jump in and test the waters. My Aussie group is generally pretty cool: married couple and a laid back Queenslander make up half of my evening slots. They're playing in my Rime of the Frostmaiden and Ghosts of Saltmarsh, with two of them also being in our podcast. Two of them are even playing in my upcoming Pathfinder game as well. If ever you're keen to just jump into our Discord and have a chat, I reckon you'd find it a pretty good group How are you liking it? My group just opted to call it quits after their third or fourth TPK. It's a fantastically atmospheric module, but it really fell apart with the group constantly getting themselves killed doing reckless/stupid stuff. We're rebooting next week in a Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign that promises to be a lot less brooding and lethal.
  3. Not all at once haha. Sessions are capped at six players, but there is a player pool of 22 (each with 1-5 characters) that can go out on any given mission.
  4. It is one I haven't had a chance to play around with yet, sadly! ----- I just launched a West Marches game a few weeks ago. Started with five players doing a single one-shot into the wilderness. Now I've got 22 players, running 3-4 sessions of adventures a week, and loving it. Something really fun about a player-driven, open world rather than the rails of a campaign.
  5. CR is busted too. Almost TPKed one of my ToA parties with a 'hard' random encounter (their only encounter of the day) when two ankylosaurus zombies and two girallon zombies almost massacred them. Wizard got critically hit for 37 damage while down to 9 hit points for an instant-kill, two others were unconscious, and I had to have an NPC intervene to avoid a complete disaster.
  6. I don't know how I feel about rugby league and rugby union sharing a thread, but just wanted to comment on how ass backwards the British Super League is. Kick out an international franchise with growth potential and big home crowds prior to promotion, let in another club from a mining town. Got to be the worst run professional sports league going.
  7. Binged the first three episodes of season five of The Expanse today. That show really has gone from strength to strength, especially these past few Amazon seasons.
  8. It has definitely made my year much more bearable, both financially and to help with the isolation. My wife and I came here as part of our honeymoon and got stranded, and while we've made a few friends, multiple lockdowns and our tight budget have meant staying in is a necessary evil. Having a D&D game 6 out of 7 days helps with that.
  9. Once the players defeat Auril, there's a bunch of stuff about a half-buried Netherese city. There are essentially three primary antagonists: a duergar trying to build a dragon, Auril, and this creepy city. It's all rather freeform, which is a bit weird when it is sold as a big battle against Auril.
  10. Just saw this part. Frostmaiden is very cool, but horribly structured. Its sandbox style isn't really conducive to players actually finding or connectin with the central narrative, which means a lot more DM work. It's also hindered by the fact the apparent main villain is somebody you deal with in chapter five of a seven chapter book, which causes a bit of a weird transition in the middle.
  11. What's the premise? I ran a super involved, low fantasy, high-RP game set in an East Asian setting last year that ran for eighteen months. It was a blast and a really nice change from swords & sorcery, but damned if it wasn't a lot of work to run.
  12. It is! I believe you still get every content release for free, including the controversial recent one (War of the Three Peaks) that was a mini-expansion that cost money, where before they have been free for subscribers. But lifetime membership is still definitely a thing. Shit, I'd pay good money for a lifetime account haha
  13. Yeah, it takes up a lot of my time, but I've got plenty of it with us now in lockdown again). Running: Three Tomb of Annihilation (two weekly and one fortnightly) Two Curse of Strahd Two Rime of the Frostmaiden One Night Below/homebrew One homebrew/Keep on the Borderlands One West Marches One Rappan Athuk I've been getting plenty of practice prepping stuff on the fly and a lot of encounters can easily be repurposed and reflavored for different campaigns, but I'd say I spend 2 hours a week prepping for each game, four hours running them, and another 30-45 minutes per game doing a session summary. It definitely isn't as lucrative as my old gig, but I'm running enough games that it at least feels like the time spent is worth the payoff. ------ How are you liking Dragon Heist? It's the only 5e adventure I've not read yet.
  14. They do a really good job of being (largely) faithful to the books. The depth of the lore and the quality of the writing is really good, and it's fun to follow along just behind the Fellowship as they travel to Mordor. The narrative has actually gone beyond the books now, with the One Ring being destroyed two years ago and Aragorn & Arwen's wedding being a big event midway through the year. We're now helping the dwarves reclaim Gundabad in the upcoming expansion.
  15. Typical hobbits, always sneaking and hiding. With the recent purchase of Daybreak Games and the rumoured graphical improvements, it's a much needed boost for the game. It still turns a tidy profit despite its relatively low profile, so it's good to see it getting a bit of love.
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