Joe Gamer

I have a few more thoughts on 4e, but this is mainly for those who are interested in playing in my campaign.  I am toying with a few ideas here and there, so I thought I would express them here.  It’s mostly about what I want to do if/when I DM 4e again as to make it more interesting for me and the players.

1) Continue where we left off: We were running through the first official Wizards modules.  I could keep going through them, but I’m unsure of the quality of the next one.  It seems very unique, but it’s just a big dungeon crawl.  I have the tools to make it more than just that (they have suggestions in the book) but if I run it verbatim its nothing but fighting.  Not as terrible as it sounds, there’s some pretty cool scenes, but just a warning.

2) Eberron: I know a few of us like the Eberron setting and I could run a bit through it.  I have a published campaign available that starts things going, but I can expound upon it or just use the books… either way, just suggesting.

3) Original setting: I can go out on a limb to make some crap up.  Not sure if I could be any good at it, since I haven’t done it before, but if I did it right it would be a lot of fun.

I’m thinking of restarting because of all the new stuff that’s out.  I’d suggest Dark Sun, but it won’t come out til August and I have already promised to run it when available.  However, with Martial Power 2 coming out tomorrow, there are Martial Practices available that I’m interested in seeing used (essentially Rituals for martial characters… stuff like Forge Armor, Forge Weapon, Alter Ego, Master Artisan, or Perfect Forgery that replaces the profession and craft skills).  If we continue, I will still give the option of reorganizing each character if you guys want so you can work with some of the newer things (Saul, Aria and Yuriel can trade a feat for Arcane Familiar, Pylia can swap out her class feature for a Beast Companion, etc).

Just let me know on here and I’ll toy with some ideas!

© 2010, Jeff Hollingsworth. All rights reserved.

When I got home tonight the little one was watching Mulan which makes me very happy. I love it when she watches stories with strong female characters, especially in a fantasy setting. Obviously ancient China isn’t exactly a fantasy setting but when you add dragons and spirits its close enough. Add on top the love between the father and daughter and you might be able to see why I hope she watches this over and over again.

During the course of the movie my little girl had a few questions. Here were the two I wanted to share that I thought fully illustrates just how geeky I can be:
Q) (After Mulan has taken a vicious sword strike she falls in pain.) What’s wrong with her?
A) She just took 1d8 + 12 damage to the chest.
Q) (Upon seeing the BBG’s hand break the surface of the snow after the avalanche.) What’s that?
A) The bad guy. You know it’s hard to keep a high level barbarian down.

Now I must go as The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother is playing and is taking up a good bit of my attention now. That is a whole other genre of entertainment to get my daughter hooked on though perhaps in a few more years when she can really start to appreciate the genius of Gene Wilder.

© 2010, Joseph Little. All rights reserved.

For those of you in my “A Hero Restored” campaign, I wish a Merry Christmas with the gift of free magic items. Please spend 25,000 gp on any magic items from the DMG that the party desires.

How you distribute is up to you.

© 2009, Joseph Little. All rights reserved.

Hello everyone and welcome to the odyssey that will be the gaming habits of one Tiny King Jeff.  I am your Royal Shortness, Jeff, also know as Jeff Hollingsworth.  I promise I’ll try to make this as painless as possible.  I’m 22 years old, married to the most wonderful woman in the world, a Christian (because that’s important to me), and a dedicated gamer.  I don’t have as much experience as JoeGamer or LynnGamer, but I’ve got passion and that’s got to count for something right?  Right?  …right?

Anyhow, I play a good amount of video games as well as D&D and Warhammer.  I’m a huge fan of the sometimes bashed D&D 4th Edition so there will be a few posts here and there about new developments on that realm and why I care so much.  So here’s to what I hope becomes a beautiful friendship!

© 2009, Jeff Hollingsworth. All rights reserved.

Just one look around our house and you can clearly see that we are collectors. Most of our collections are game related. It’s either minis, cards, or games. Just recently we’ve discovered that we even like the Bella Sara miniatures. On a recent trip to the store, we found something all of us seem to enjoy equally.

They are called Go-Gos or Crazy Bones as it says on the package. From the Magic Box website, Gogos are described as game pieces. There isn’t an official game per say that you play with Gogos, but there are plenty of user submitted games.

There are over 80 gogos. JoeGamer plans to decorate his desk with his while mine will adorn my desk at home. The Little Gamer plays with hers in the pool and in the tub mostly.

Since we love both games and collectibles, gogos are a huge hit.

© 2009, Lynn Little. All rights reserved.