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marsden_online) wrote2008-01-29 08:55 pm
marsden_online) wrote2008-01-29 08:55 pm
More substantive* update
*may be subjective
Classless game ran well on Sunday I thought. Only ended up killing one PC out of a likely TPK due, ironically, to a failed save on the last standing PC's part. I used two spells I have never before used as a DM - Death Knell and Charm Person (the latter in combat even).
The former is a spell that it alway seems unfair or mean to use, as it tends to kill outright a PC who might otherwise stabilise in what could be seen as a deliberate action on the part of the DM (much like coup-de-gras on a PC - it's not usually good for the game). The latter is just really hard to apply in game unless you have the right players for it. Both can take away some feeling of control over your own character.
The party ended up leaving with most of the complex unexplored, so I shall have to come up with something else for next session. CF forces a break, so I have a couple of weeks.
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Moved offices at work. Now sharing with the boss, new team members sharing the office where I was. The new setup is a little more cramped as they couldn't make the (very well designed) desk I was using fit in the new space. However it does lend itself to focusing on work for longer stretches rather than checking LJ/email/Facebook/Gchat every 20 minutes.
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Mother is out of hospital, cyst analysis came back negative for cancer, hopefully she can now take it easy and recover.
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Visited Grandma today, who is failing, a long, slow, slide.
Classless game ran well on Sunday I thought. Only ended up killing one PC out of a likely TPK due, ironically, to a failed save on the last standing PC's part. I used two spells I have never before used as a DM - Death Knell and Charm Person (the latter in combat even).
The former is a spell that it alway seems unfair or mean to use, as it tends to kill outright a PC who might otherwise stabilise in what could be seen as a deliberate action on the part of the DM (much like coup-de-gras on a PC - it's not usually good for the game). The latter is just really hard to apply in game unless you have the right players for it. Both can take away some feeling of control over your own character.
The party ended up leaving with most of the complex unexplored, so I shall have to come up with something else for next session. CF forces a break, so I have a couple of weeks.
~~~
Moved offices at work. Now sharing with the boss, new team members sharing the office where I was. The new setup is a little more cramped as they couldn't make the (very well designed) desk I was using fit in the new space. However it does lend itself to focusing on work for longer stretches rather than checking LJ/email/Facebook/Gchat every 20 minutes.
~~~
Mother is out of hospital, cyst analysis came back negative for cancer, hopefully she can now take it easy and recover.
~~~
Visited Grandma today, who is failing, a long, slow, slide.
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