Another Geekfest Over.

Yet another Geekfest over, another great weekend getting together to play some old time D&D and some Magic.

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Roll 17 and 20 on d20

During one session in the D&D module I needed to roll 2 15+ on 2 d20's. One of the players yells out "roll a 17 and 20 Dog!" So I did.

 

 Here are the 2 d20's with a 17 and 20.

 

 

 

So, can some stat's person work out the odds of me rolling these 2 numbers.

 

1) We know a combination of 15,16,17,18,19,20 and 15,16,17,18,19,20 are going to be called because these are what I need to roll. So how many different combinations of these two sets of numbers are there?

 

2) The two dice being rolled are d20's with the numbers 1,2,3...18,19,20 and 1,2,3...18,19,20. and what are the odds of the two dice rolling a 17 and 20?

 





 

 



Last Day Magic Game

On the last day we got in one more 5 player magic game. I finally got to use my card that brings out 13 Zombie tokens, I also had a card out that gave the, +1/+1. So there were 13 3/3 tapped Zombies. My oppenent killed me in one turn.

Chainmail Battle

Using the Chainmail rules for a mass battle was a big change from gaming with Games Workshop Warhammer Fantasy Battle system. With Chainmail the rules are much less rigid where GW has a rule  for almost every possible situation. The Chainmail rules are actually quite fun. The only issue I have is the combat resolution system. The outcome takes a little too long to decide and slows down the game. It was fun to wargame in 10mm as well. The whole army, terrain, and rules fit in a shoe box.

 

 

 

Turn one. The O&G started the game 9" on the table.

Then initiative was rolled. The O&G won.

                                                                                                       

 

Turn 2 and 3. The Orcs are pressing hard for the treasure by the tents.

Another change I could make is when a hero meets a monster, they can go into a "challenge" and only those two characters can fight, as in "man to man". This would also speed up the game. It was hard to watch one of the player characters get tied down in combat with a giant frog.

 

 

 

 

The Orcs are getting closer, but yes that is heavy cavalry coming onto the table.

 

 

 

Another pic of the battle.

 

 

 

Turn 5. The Orcs are holding the tents and treasure, but yes that is the hill tribe coming into view with their own giant.

 

 

 

At this point the Orcs are still holding the tents, but I believe they were finally chased off...

 

I  defiantly would like to try this again, using the same armies and scenario. I will stream line the combat resolution and using heroes/anti-heros. It was really fun to just wargame.

CBC D&D Article from the '80s

Here is an article from the CBC I stumbled upon. There is one line from one of the kids. He say's something like "if adults want to understand the game and what their children are doing, try playing the game" still rings true.  Here is the link. Also check out the related content about LARP'ing.

D&D Starter Box

 Box cover of the D&D starter set. Pretty typical box, this cover reminds me of the D&D Basic set from 1983.

 

 

Here is the 1983 cover.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the inside. You get 5 pre-made characters, and 1 blank character page. The starter rule book, covering: How to play, Combat, Adventuring, and Spell casting. The module covers how to  play, magic items, and monsters.

 

This starter box is great if you want to get gaming right away. If you just want the basic rules, the rules that you can download from Wizards of the Coast are great.

 

You also get some great looking dice.

 

 





 



D&D Rules

 

Down loaded and printed off the new D&D 5th edition rules. These are just the basic rules for character creation, combat, spells and general game play. These "new" rules look refreshing with a lot of queues from Advanced D&D. The only issue I have is the spells listed in the back have no names. When I sent the rules to the printer the spell names did not print. Not only in the list but when spells are mentioned in the rules the names didn't show up there either.

 

I am looking forward to Geekfest and using these new rules. I have been playing D&D for years, recently only once a year at Geekfest. Yet I still look forward to making new characters and going adventuring!

 

Here is the LINK for the rules