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The Campaign: Crypt

March 1, 2019 by Tim

Well that was fun. See you in another year, “The Campaign.”

No no, I’m kidding.

…At least I hope I’m kidding. I stretch myself too thin. Oh well! Next up on the horizon… perhaps Starcaster!


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foducool
foducool
5 years ago

see? this is exactly why we can’t have nice things

DannyboyO1
DannyboyO1
5 years ago

You know… every time I’ve taken 50 suits of horrifyingly used leather armor to the shops in an RPG… I… gawds. No wonder the town guard is always watching you like a hawk. We’re all clearly either graverobbers or looting battlefields… or serial killers. I mean, I totally understand why we’re getting paid for the armor. Even if the shopkeep can’t really use them, you’re showing up with armor that didn’t save its last owner, and asking for coin. But who would be buying them? Next year’s bandits? You’d think they’d steal them. Are they getting cut up for bags?… Read more »

mandoschMUh
mandoschMUh
5 years ago
Reply to  DannyboyO1

After Two Worlds and Gothic I used to quick save before trying to enter a house or take something when looking around a house…I slaughtered a whole city once in TW coz the guards saw me lockpicking that door…was much fun at first, but then I was sad that the dead merchands strangely didn’t have any wares anymore :’D

Very cool story end, Tim! Looking forward to the next bit of the Campagin!

Kaelin
Kaelin
5 years ago
Reply to  mandoschMUh

Oh god. someone else who remembers that gothic was a thing. SQUEEE.

is playing through gothic 2 again for the first time in forever. God forgot how fun and annoying it can be.

Still get satisfaction about killing that twit in the jail. Shoot him with an arrow, and watch the guards try to murder him for some reason. YAY AI 😀

Scortch
Scortch
5 years ago
Reply to  Kaelin

Man I love the first two Gothics. I would love for them to do another one in that vein, or someone to make a game similar in feel.

NNextremNN
NNextremNN
5 years ago
Reply to  Scortch

Have you tried Elex? It’s from the same developer has a bit SciFi vibe but can be played as melee or mage.

Reso
Reso
5 years ago

I laughed so hard that I cried a little.

Awesome little storyline.

EllionD
EllionD
5 years ago

And that’s why starter gear in MMOs is often unsellable.

Lauren
Lauren
5 years ago

Starcaster! \o/

Daniel Sørensen
Daniel Sørensen
5 years ago

Hey Tim.
Do you intent to finish the storyline between Ethan and Emily before we get another issue of Analog and D-Pad, or have you something else cooked up?
And don’t overwork yourself on these three major stories, you have going on. Everything in due time 🙂

raven0ak
raven0ak
5 years ago

but ethan/emily is part of analog&dpad, unless you mean start superhero part of analog&dpad instead of going civilian storyline

raven0ak
raven0ak
5 years ago
Reply to  raven0ak

oh and emily is still suspected to be mastermind villain that analog&dpad reoccurring fight against

Ivar Klee
Ivar Klee
5 years ago

Reminds me of an old WEG Star Wars campaign I ran. Guys looted the bodies despite my objections, showed up with tons of stormtrooper armor and weapons to sell on Coreilla…

It didn’t end well, and a few hundred dead Stormtroopers later they were fleeing the planet as Darth Vader showed up in his star destroyer. This was set before ANH back when there were only three movies… Man I just made myself feel old.

Anyone here even remember West End Games?

Gamer
Gamer
5 years ago
Reply to  Ivar Klee

Yep. Death by D6 before Shadowrun was a thing. 🙂

ariane
ariane
5 years ago

I love the turn of Hedgon mourning the head-gone “not-batman” – well done, Tim!

tiamatt
tiamatt
5 years ago

When the DM gives a inch the players always find some crazy way to take a mile, and then some.

Mark Havener
Mark Havener
5 years ago

Umm… That’s “interplanetary”… But then, aren’t all meteors “interplanetary”? It seems a bit redundant. And pedantic. 😉

Robert Loughrey
Robert Loughrey
5 years ago
Reply to  Tim

It’s going to come from the Plane of DM Irritability.

Mark Havener
Mark Havener
5 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Great. Now you’ve given me a repeating image of Hervé Villechaize running to to the top of the bell tower, ringing the bell and pointing to the sky: “De Plane! De Plane!”

AnimalRacer
AnimalRacer
5 years ago

Back in the late 70s at a Major Midwestern University there was a large D&D group that met every Saturday night. The group had been going on for quite some time, so there were some ridiculously powerful characters. Their actions kept getting more and more exotic until the DM finally had enough. The party walked into a village and discovered that there was a holy artifact in the town square. The object was metallic and egg shaped with an odd looking box structure on the bottom. They began to investigate the object. At villages many miles away, the residents heard… Read more »

Skyblade
Skyblade
5 years ago
Reply to  Tim

But then how could we report them to you? They don’t trouble me too much.
BTW, just got one from Amazon groceries. Not sure how to supply the link like that.

Jerry
Jerry
5 years ago

I just can’t believe her bow missed every nostril! She needs to aim a little higher so her bow can shine like it should.

Deluxe
Deluxe
5 years ago

True.

FITCamaro
FITCamaro
5 years ago

I was kind of hoping for the meteor and next time we see “The Campaign” we’re just on a new line of storytelling completely.

CHARLES
CHARLES
5 years ago

Oh yea I remember WEG. I used to have their “Paranoia” RPG. As well as their version of X wing vs Tie Fighter called Star Warriors. It was always fun to run a game of Star Warriors with some friends and recreate some of the setups from LucasArts X Wing or Tie fighter.

Demoneq
Demoneq
5 years ago

I wonder about one think – how come the GM also has a Player Character, doesn’t he know the full story in advance? (unless there’s some details about how he doesn’t, and I forgot it?)

Demoneq
Demoneq
5 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Good point, sorry, I might have phrased it better – the GM knows things like who the antagonists of the story are, what are their goals and motivations, and so on. I suppose in your typical D&D-ish adventure of “explore the dungeon, slay the princess and save the treasure” it’s less important (other than knowing the layout, what monsters and traps are there, etc.), but I think it would be much more tricky in say, scheming and plotting politcal game like Vampire: the Masquerade. (BTW, does the website have an option of creating a permanent account for comments, or allowing… Read more »

Dagroth
Dagroth
5 years ago
Reply to  Demoneq

Nevermind about the account, made a better perception roll and figured that one out. 😉

Dagroth
Dagroth
5 years ago
Reply to  Tim

Yeah, that makes sense.

Is that why Player 3 plays a cleric, who seems to be a support role in the setting they use?

SilverShadow4
SilverShadow4
5 years ago
Reply to  Dagroth

That is the most likely reason. Also, the DM can never be certain about how things will go that depend on the dice either. It all comes down to their ability to resist metagaming. I like to think I’m pretty good at it, but I’ve also not been forced to play a DMpc. Our current DM is unfortunate because our party has a tendancy to pick up strays. As soon as he finds an excuse to have them leave the party, we inevitably find another one that we just pick up. Two sessions ago we got a second DMPC in… Read more »

IvarKlee
IvarKlee
5 years ago

Finally broke down and registered

Roamer
Roamer
5 years ago

Question: WHY IS THE BOW NO LONGER TARGETING THE NOSTRILS?!?!?!?!?!?