BlazingTornado Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 This is a few levels away but I have a hook for the party to go deal with some frost giant up north. Are there any decent frost giant lair maps aside from the glacial rift of Against The Giants out there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuldGrump Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 Hmmm, for purchase as PDFs - Rogue Genius - One Night Stand: Ice Cave of the Frost Giant Slavers Heroic Maps - Geomorph: The Frost Tombs Heroic Maps - Frost Ruins Heroic Maps - Tomb of the Frost Giant King Heroic Maps - Tomb of the Frost Giant Queen Fantastic Maps - The Ice Temple E-Adventure Tiles - The Ice Cave (and many others) Lots of cool (Cool, get it! get it!) map tiles intended for Warhammer Quest - at Warhammer Quest Chronicles (The Norsca tiles, in particular.) Warhammer Quest sites in general are great sources for boards and tiles - here's one in French. I am amazed how many of these sites are still around - some of them were originally on GeoCities. If you had a lot more time, I would highly recommend the 3D sets from World Works games - Basically a Panel & Girder set made from PDFs - lots of prep work, but goes together quickly, once the prep work is done. The Auld Grump - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazingTornado Posted August 28, 2017 Share Posted August 28, 2017 All interesting stuff. The Slavers one looks interesting but I wish I could see the full map, even if at low-res. There is surprisingly few Frost Giant-related maps, at least from my Google searches. Even Storm King's Thunder has little to offer, Frost Giant-wise. There's one off-coast island village, frozen over, with four intact dwellings (two lodges, a shipmaking/repairing hut and a temple)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaganMegan Posted August 29, 2017 Share Posted August 29, 2017 Maybe use maps of Viking camps, blown up large? Hill forts and motte and bailey? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jokemeister Posted August 30, 2017 Share Posted August 30, 2017 On 8/27/2017 at 11:07 PM, TheAuldGrump said: I spent last weekend running games for eight plus hours of the day - I wanted to put aside some time to do couple like things with my good lady wife. Turns out, we both kind of suck at it! (Which was strangely comforting, in a way.) None of the movies playing held any interest for either of us, which destroyed Plan A right away. So, took her to the new kabab place, and then a local gastropub that had live music - I swear to Gogamagog, Megan and I do a better show than that! So, yesterday, I threw maturity to the winds, and took her to Funtown/Splashtown - an amusement park and water park. Worked much better than trying to be all grown up about it. The Auld Grump Being "grown up" is overrated. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuldGrump Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 Good game tonight - and one of the PCs is thinking about donning Blackjack's garb . Mind you, she is also a Shadowdancer, not a vigilante.... But I will allow her to recreate her character as a vigilante, in place of the Rogue she began as. Do you think that people will notice that Blackjack goes from being a middle aged male human to a young female elf? Now, I really, really need to sleep.... The Auld Grump - the party is fleeing Old Korvosa... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sundseth Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 3 minutes ago, TheAuldGrump said: Do you think that people will notice that Reveal hidden contents Blackjack goes from being a middle aged male human to a young female elf? Now, I really, really need to sleep.... The Auld Grump - the party is fleeing Old Korvosa... Nah, it's a secret identity thing. They're kind of mystical, I think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlazingTornado Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 I ended up doing the "surrogate father's sacrifice to revive the cleric" thing. His funeral's tomorrow. I also ended up redesigning a lot of the 7th level encounter with that evil cult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuldGrump Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 On 9/1/2017 at 11:23 PM, Doug Sundseth said: Nah, it's a secret identity thing. They're kind of mystical, I think. It reminds me of that episode of Jack of All Trades where the female lead dresses up as the Daring Dragoon, and nobody notices the difference. (It is no secret - I like Amelia more than Jack.) Jack of All Trades was a terrible, terrible show - I wish there were more episodes... lots of really, really stupid fun. (Thank you Megan - until you bought the DVDs, I had never even heard of this show.) The Auld Grump - with a theme song worth singing along with.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuldGrump Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 The kids game is on hold for the next month or so - the kids want to wait until they can all play again. They like being an unruly mob of a dozen ne'er do wells.... And Sam has gotten to display her multiple tails, she may well end up being the party's infiltration expert. It is so much fun watching the dynamics of the group - and how different it is in the pirates game than it was for Beyond the Borderlands. The role of party leader shifts from scene to scene, encounter to encounter. Sometimes Iain, sometimes Dain, sometimes Sam, sometimes Andy - all depending on what is going on. But Dain is easily the most piratical of the group. (Latest addition to his portfolio - he gets a tic when contemplating treasure... the kid is a born ham! ) I... am thinking about having a Hallowe'en party this year, with a pirate theme. And having the kids for the first half of the party. I haven't run a Hallowe'en party in years. The Auld Grump 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaganMegan Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 5 hours ago, TheAuldGrump said: The kids game is on hold for the next month or so - the kids want to wait until they can all play again. They like being an unruly mob of a dozen ne'er do wells.... And Sam has gotten to display her multiple tails, she may well end up being the party's infiltration expert. It is so much fun watching the dynamics of the group - and how different it is in the pirates game than it was for Beyond the Borderlands. The role of party leader shifts from scene to scene, encounter to encounter. Sometimes Iain, sometimes Dain, sometimes Sam, sometimes Andy - all depending on what is going on. But Dain is easily the most piratical of the group. (Latest addition to his portfolio - he gets a tic when contemplating treasure... the kid is a born ham! ) I... am thinking about having a Hallowe'en party this year, with a pirate theme. And having the kids for the first half of the party. I haven't run a Hallowe'en party in years. The Auld Grump Ask the parents if they would be up for a live game. Get the grownups to play NPCs for the early party, and PCs for the late party. Maybe even as parts of the same scenario! Pretty good odds you can talk at least half of us into it. And the parents seemed to enjoy your demonstration game. So we could have a BIG party, we can tell them we are Hosting A Murder to help them understand. Wow, now I want to do this! This is going to be FUN! See you in a few. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nunae Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 I envy you all. We haven't played all August and we'll resume at Sept 16th, so still 2 weeks to go. First the law student had her German equivalent of a bar exam, and now I have two more weeks to go with my final project. It's weird not playing for so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sundseth Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 1 hour ago, Nunae said: I envy you all. We haven't played all August and we'll resume at Sept 16th, so still 2 weeks to go. First the law student had her German equivalent of a bar exam, and now I have two more weeks to go with my final project. It's weird not playing for so long. Yeah, we lost out on August entirely and the first date in September as well. For us, it was a combination of eclipse, GenCon, Pennsic, surgery, a cruise .... We run three different campaigns with somewhat different casts and different GMs and we couldn't get any of them to work for more than a month. Looking forward to this upcoming Friday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sundseth Posted September 4, 2017 Share Posted September 4, 2017 9 hours ago, TheAuldGrump said: Jack of All Trades was a terrible, terrible show - I wish there were more episodes... lots of really, really stupid fun. (Thank you Megan - until you bought the DVDs, I had never even heard of this show.) This is the first I've heard of it. (And yes, it looks really bad, but not necessarily in a bad way. ) I got to see Bruce Campbell at an Origins in the '90s. He was there for some game or other related to a role he had done and ended up MCing the Origins Awards that year. His introduction for Darwin Bromley's induction into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame was embarrassingly bad (though entertaining in a very Bruce Campbell sort of way). Fortunately, Darwin missed the intro and was so overjoyed to be inducted that it wasn't an issue. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaganMegan Posted September 5, 2017 Share Posted September 5, 2017 On 09/03/2017 at 9:50 PM, Doug Sundseth said: This is the first I've heard of it. (And yes, it looks really bad, but not necessarily in a bad way. ) I got to see Bruce Campbell at an Origins in the '90s. He was there for some game or other related to a role he had done and ended up MCing the Origins Awards that year. His introduction for Darwin Bromley's induction into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame was embarrassingly bad (though entertaining in a very Bruce Campbell sort of way). Fortunately, Darwin missed the intro and was so overjoyed to be inducted that it wasn't an issue. Bruce Campbell used to come into the Border's Books I was working at, now and again. About two or three times a year. The last time because he was promoting a book. All other times because he wanted something to read. You could never predict what. This is in Maine, and I know that Grump also knows him, so I am guessing he has people in these parts? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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