The Marsh Lake Minotaur

I had some inspiration while camping that made me want to play a Minotaur again. :)

Read about the M.L.M. here!



MMMOOOOOO!!!

Boffer and Dav

Slick Moves had by All.

Kindrok, Half-Giant Fighter!

I am currently playing this character in the Free RPG day adventure Bloodsand Arena that my friend Eric is DMing. He did an awesome job, and Kindrok did awesome. I've honestly never played a two-weapon fighter before, and I have to say that it's fun, when it's balanced. I don't think I would ever make a dual wielder whose every power was based on the the fact that they have a weapon in each hand. Attacks like "cleave" are certainly fitting.

I also can't wait until the Dark Sun books come out, so I can see the mechanics for all the additional character features! As much as I complain about pregenerated characters, Kindrok has been SWEET!

Here's a doodle I did of the big guy failing an endurance check during the game.

Encounters Season 2, July 21, 2010

This week's encounter went pretty well, but we still conquered in about 60 minutes, leaving us wanting more.

There's a chance I could be DMing a game at the FLGS in the future to fill the rest of the time. I kind of want to put together a campaign based on the locations and baddies of the TV show Adventure Time.

I won't post any details yet, just in case I have from my group reading, but I will say, that I will probably start by adapting the episode called "Dungeon". Fitting, I know. :)

Dark Sun Character

Here's the full image of the character I did for gamefiend's D&D 4e website: http://at-will.omnivangelist.net/
It was a re-imagined version of this image.

Encounters Season 2, session 1: "Oh, Dang!"

I say "Oh, Dang!" because that was about how the entire encounter went. Our goal was to grab supplies from a busted up caravan and make for the hills before the silt runners could rob/kill us. In hind-sight, we probably should have done less supply grabbing and fighting and a little more running.

I played Shikirr the Thri-Kreen Battlemind, and I felt pretty prepared to handle my role as defender... until I became the first to drop below zero hit points. I lay dying on the battlefield until Castri the elf managed to drag me a few feet toward safety. By this point I had also broken my weapon already, but managed to grab a few bone spears off of fallen enemies. I luckily rolled a 20 on one of my death saves, and managed to escape with an ill-gotten 1 hit point by the end of it. Everyone else was not so lucky, though I did revive Castri somewhat while we watched Phye, Barcan and the Tiefling, whose name escapes me, Die with a capital "d".

Synopsis: 1. Dark Sun is brutal. 2. Dark Sun is awesome.

I love the setting, and I love that there was an instant scenario where I was forced into role playing, ie: Do I choose to run for it, or do I try to save my dying friends?

Our DM, Dylan, did an awesome job. It was his first time DMing at the comic book store, and he felt a little bad killing everyone, but all in all, he rocked it. I think if were to have a party vote, though, the d20 was using would be officially banned as a DM die. It was on fire.

My only hope as the group's defender is that I can hollow out some beetle or something later and adorn myself with some kind of chitinous heavy shield. The reach weapons I've been breaking/collecting so far are kind of counter-intuitive, considering most of a battlemind's marking abilities require you to be adjacent to your targets.

I would love to hear about your experience in the comments below! Did anything similar happen to your party?

Thri-Kreen Shikirr

Comments welcome!