Dave Arneson memorial gameday

[tavis]

More pictures of the event are available on Flickr, courtesy of the awesomeness of Carlos A Smith (aka Truth Seeker @ EnWorld & CM).

[havard]

Mar 27, 2010 20:18:49 GMT -6 tavis said:

In the end, most of the party helped a group of valkyries rescue their "babies" - which turned out to be giant carnivorous frogs, as I decided that the group of 11 warriors on the third level next to a bunch of frogs were refugees from the destruction of the Temple, and the 3 frogs elsewhere on the level had been kidnapped. A player from my Red Box group dropped in to take the role of the valkyrie leader, and I suspect it was only the fact that she thus made the valkryies part of the "PC glow" that kept the party from turning on her in horror when they realized she was a batrachian-supremacist fanatic! Meanwhile, another member of the party, Count Ed Vainglor, successfully contacted Sir Fang and convinced that worthy to turn him into a vampire - this apparently having been his ambition ever since he duped his way past the purity test of the elven barricade. Good times!

I love reading about this over at different boards Tavis!

What roles do Valkyries play in your Blackmoor? Are they like from norse myths, or a human culture?

I love the name Count Ed Vainglor. Does his title come with any lands? If so, where? Thonia perhaps?

Havard

[tavis]

Your take on Blackmoor is substantially deeper than mine, Havard!

The amazons came from
a) a dice roll that determined that a room of 11 warriors were all female. (There was a 50% chance of this happening; not sure why I didn't allow for any possibility of them being mixed genders).
b) the players calling what I described as "women warriors" Amazons and me running with it

The name Count Ed Vainglor comes from the same inspiration that caused the player Ed to name another of his characters Narcissus. I am sure he would be delighted if you could tell him what lands his now-vampiric sage can return home to terrorize!