To be perfectly honest I'm not generally a big fan of "retro" game systems because along with the nostalgia I can remember all the headaches with old school game mechanics. But having said that Dungeon Crawl Classics does a great job of using a current modern framework for their game but just dropping a lot of extraneous nonsense that bogs the game down.
For tonight's game I was playing a cleric and I had the perfect figure from Otherworld miniatures to fit the mood of the game. The figure has a retro aesthetic but is sculpted and cast to the standards we expect from our miniatures today.
Zenithar had a very bi-polar night. He made a few important rolls and came through on a couple of big occasions for the party but he also bombed quite a few easy checks and had severely incurred the displeasure of his Deity before the session was over.
Lots of fun and I think I'd really like to play again!
-Jay
Zenithar is a very hit and miss fella. He should be dead by now, but he ain't. He did survive having his soul sucked out of him.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I was getting concerned when we got close to end of the session I played in I was about to get someone else's character wrecked.
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ReplyDeleteLast session Allan (owner of Zenithar) went toe to toe with a fire giant. A lucky spell cast got him out of that. Then later he made a tough DC will save to not have his soul sucked out by a soul gem! Zenithar's days are numbered no matter who plays him.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that he's also (at least temporarily) filling the Fighter role in the party probably doesn't help
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