I know it's been a while since I posted anything. Sorry about that. I haven't felt like there was much to write, actually. To catch the readers up to speed, we never fixed the Redshirts rules issues. The core of the game has potential, but I think that there's just way too much work involved there to get it into a state that I'm happy with, and for too little return.
And then we played a bunch of board games. And then there was a tank game that I came up with rules for, which was pretty fun, but that won't go anywhere because I don't have money for prototyping. And Munchkin. Munchkin, in case you didn't know, is brilliant. And alcohol. Lots of copious amounts of alcohol.
So then it was last week, and in the middle of our weekly Munchkin game we decided to do a D&D game next, provided that I wasn't the DM, as I just have too much going on in my life right now to run a campaign. Marty volunteered to be the DM, and the crowd grew excited and hushed itself in anticipation of what was to come. Then we decided to theme the game, because regular old D&D just isn't enough. We would be anti-magic religious zealots. So the only allowed player classes were Cleric, Paladin and Monk. And we would be using the D&D 5th Edition rules, also known as D&D Next. The only problem with that is those particular rules aren't out yet. So we're using the playtest rules, at least until such time as the official rules are released.
And then it was this week, and we went to Jonny's house, and drank much booze, and created characters. I chose to play a Paladin, Jonny went with a Cleric, and Nathan created a Monk. I kind of figured that Nathan would choose a Monk, as he was an Adept in our last Shadowrun game (years ago), and it's pretty much the same thing. And at the end of the creation process, which consisted of a lot of page-turning and "where's the rules for this thing and that thing?" questions because none of us had actually looked at the 5E rules before last night, we had Nathan as Tuck the yodeling Shao-Lin Friar, myself as Fitzroy "Take Me To Your Witches" Barbarossa, a bookworm who discovered the joys of the Way of the Maul and became a crusading Paladin, and the study in contradictions himself, Jonny as Thair the Thug Priest, servant of the sock-puppet god Glycon, who chose Life as his spell domain, and is loaded up on Heals. Because he's a thug who refuses to be typecast. He's helpy like that.
And then we played. But that's another post.
