I usually don’t game gush too much, but we had a great session this morning. I’m hoping that when I and others get excited about the games we play, it prompts others to get started running and playing more games.
So….. I tried to be a kind GM, but Dungeon World refused. After a few truly awful rolls, one of which was a max damage roll from a monster, our first adventurer from the Vaara Campaign went to the black gate. An offer was made to Princess Cormorant, by death itself, to betray her new alliance with her former enemy, the Fae Witch Feldred. The princess chose honor in death, rather than guilt in life, and went beyond the black gate to dine with human and fae alike, existing in harmony at last.
R.I.P Cormorant of Toufleaux. May you achieve your compendium class in the great beyond.
j0rdi Jørund Kambestad Lie Jeremy Strandberg James Etheridge
Thanks for making the prep and stuff I do worth every second. Always looking forward to next session!
If handled correctly, the Black Gate can be such a satisfying scene. I’m glad you guys are having fun!
If handled correctly, the Black Gate can be such a satisfying scene. I’m glad you guys are having fun!
Yeah, Daniel made Death’s Bargain absolutely gutwrenching. Pitting Cormorant’s obligation to her people against her personal ethics, and making it tempting to compromise the latter since the life she’d be taking would’ve been that of an enemy. Pitch-perfect example of what a Black Gate scene should look like, and one of the coolest moments I’ve ever played through. So many kudos!
Yeah, Daniel made Death’s Bargain absolutely gutwrenching. Pitting Cormorant’s obligation to her people against her personal ethics, and making it tempting to compromise the latter since the life she’d be taking would’ve been that of an enemy. Pitch-perfect example of what a Black Gate scene should look like, and one of the coolest moments I’ve ever played through. So many kudos!
James Etheridge Thanks! I am humbled. We’ve got a good group, which I appreciate so much.
I should also note there were two “requests” at the table that their character be damaged as established by the fiction…. You all really understand and accept the heart of the game.
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James Etheridge Thanks! I am humbled. We’ve got a good group, which I appreciate so much.
I should also note there were two “requests” at the table that their character be damaged as established by the fiction…. You all really understand and accept the heart of the game.
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I have good memories of my only session of Dungeon World that got me to the black gate after a string of misses and bad decisions by my fanatical PC, he got to meet his God and was basically told maybe to ease off on the zealotry, he though his God was a too soft so wouldn’t back down. I think his frustrated God may have called him ‘a dick’ but that may have just been in my head.
I have good memories of my only session of Dungeon World that got me to the black gate after a string of misses and bad decisions by my fanatical PC, he got to meet his God and was basically told maybe to ease off on the zealotry, he though his God was a too soft so wouldn’t back down. I think his frustrated God may have called him ‘a dick’ but that may have just been in my head.