Hardly Weakly

As my last post was the first of the month and the twenty second is not seven days later, this is hardly a weekly blog. However, there are a few bits and pieces to show for it.

Back on the fifth, I decided it would be a good idea to get a few friends together and try to play the famously, dorky game of Dungeons and Dragons. Then this past Saturday, four friends came over and we spent the afternoon delving into our first game of D&D 4th Edition. Now to play D&D you need players and a Dungeon Master; A Dungeon Master is someone who describes the setting and events happening in the game world and gives the players oppurtunity for adventure. So rather than using an adventure that was already made and planned out, in the time between the 5th and the 22nd I did a little brainstorming and writing to end up with a little 3 page introductory adventure for the players.

The quickest summary of the story so far is that these 5 adventurers met on the road when 2 were attacked by wolves. After they defeated the wolves, they made their way to the nearest town. Then they decided to help a man cure his son of some magical illness. The did so by bringing the boy to their only link in the mystery... a dungeon! They killed zombies and rock monsters and then cured the boy. They also found a map of other secret locations in the woods, so who knows where they'll go next.

It was definitely a fun experience, running the game as well as doing all the prep work for the game world. I can definitely say I was unprepared with the level of description everything needed. I made a map of the dungeon, a little sketch of the boy they helped and the map they found at the end of the dungeon.

Two pictures of the map the characters found...

And my DM map of the dungeon the characters explored...

Also to prepare for a large table top game, we needed a large table top! So by using the base of an existing desk, a large piece of cut board, and some finishing trim, we made a nice big table and future workspace.

Now to get the paint out of the basement, the brushes out of the draw and get around to painting on my giant table.