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Fri Nov 9 09:10:06 EST 2018
Slept from eleven to seven without waking.
Snow!
Not a lot, but a nearly continuous thin blanket.
High of forty today, with less than an half-an-inch of snow accumulation.
PTO day.
Watched the first half of Life of Brian on Netflix.
Haven't seen it in years.
Still funny, mostly, although it's clearer to me today that this is particularly the humor of privileged boys from Cambridge and Oxford.
Drove down to U-Con in Ypsilanti.
Ed's coming to the con too, and we're scheduled for a lot of the same games.
2–6 PM Blueholme, "A Tale of Two Temples", GM James Spence
Three men playing.
Too much exposition, to the extent the GM asked players to read a multi-page website.
Apart from that, a fine session of "capture the jewel thief hiding in the ancient temple of Law corrupted by a Chaos cult".
GM had some good, gross chaos monsters.
[I just realized I was supposed to play in the "A Thousand Dead Babies" instead, but U-Con mischeduled me.
Bummer.
Blueholme wasn't a bad session, but I would have rather played the NGR adventure.]
8 PM–Midnight: Dungeon Crawl Classics, "Sanctum of the Snail", GM Ian Zebarah.
Just me and Ed with the GM.
Mixed feelings about this one.
It was definitely fun.
Cool magic items, nice swords & sorcery elements.
The funnel mechanic works well, and encourages risk-taking exploration of the game.
It's didactic, in a painless way.
On the other hand, the module is a bit rail-road-y, and there's some "make a skill roll or fall to your death" platforming/jumping.
Still, fun overall, and great for a con session.
We made it out of the adventure with a couple of living characters.
Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 1/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0.5/0.5
Breakfast: carrots, banana, almonds, coffee, orange, coffee, two eggs with tomato and cheese
Lunch: hamburger, apple, tomato
Dinner: banana, tomato, chicken sandwich
137/84
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