June 2008 - Posts

Wow, what a weekend! I went out this friday and just came back few hours ago to find that Diablo III has been finally confirmed to be in development (and looking fantastic), and more info about upcoming Wrath of the Lich King WoW expansion!

Also, I've been playing with the Spore Creature Creator for a while, and I'll probably add a subsection in this blog with both the creatures I design and the selections I made from other people ones (Sporepedia has at the time of writing this post near 1.3 million creatures!!!).

I know it's not an RPG, but I feel this game deserves a space here :)

Calls for Cthulhu is a funny parody of a call-in show, highly recommended for some laughts ;)

Posted 19 June 08 by Kartones | with no comments
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Two weeks ago (yes, I've been lazy, but I'm having small vacations ;) we had another roleplaying session, and went back to WoW RPG.

We've started a campaign, continuing with our characters from the previous one. We've been "trained" to level 3 and given a +1 weapon (same type as we had before the leveling) to keep up with the difficult of the new campaign.

The mission is having to escort a caravan from Ironforge to Azshara (in Kalimdor). The merchants said there were no plans for attacks, but in case it happen we would get an extra gold bonus for the danger.

The caravan contains 6 wagons, some merchants (2-3 per wagon), and two additional bodyguards (an explorer and a rogue), hired too to protect the goods.

We departed from Ironforge, and the first day went without problems. We did shifts to always have at least 2 people guarding the encampment (a circle made with the wagons with a fire in the middle).

Everything was calm until two big bears tried to stole and eat food from one of the wagons.

We killed them before any significant damage to the caravan was done.


Location of the bear attack at night

The second day we crossed the tunnel to Wetlands, increasing our speed and changing shifts to be longer and with more people awake.

At noon, while I was sleeping, the caravan got attacked by a tribe of orcs.

We counted 9 warriors and one shaman. I got up and started dressing my armor (putting on a *** plate is not fast nor easy), while my friends started fighting the orcs.

The battle was very hard, and two of us fall asleep because of the shaman spells, but the invoked wolves of our druid saved the situation and the shaman finally fled (and escaped), all nine orc warriors dead.


Location of the Orc attack to the convoy

On the third day, we managed to arrive to Menethil Harbor, and took some rest on the local inn.

The adventure will continue...

Posted 16 June 08 by Kartones | with no comments
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And while I wait Amazon to bring me home my 4th edition rulebooks, You can check free issues from Dragon and Dungeon magazines containing the first 4 ed modules, tips and articles.

Posted 16 June 08 by Kartones | with no comments
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I've uploaded tons of icons (both from WoW and from Guild wars). They are in individual JPG files:


Guild Wars Icon Set (1400+ icons)


WoW Icon Set (3900+ icons)

This weeekend we had a different roleplaying session, we played for the first time (except for Luiso) the World of Warcraft Boardgame.

We had a great time but the first play can get thought because of the complex rules (until you get the mechanics, then is quite fast to play).


The game needs a BIG table, not counting the Burning Crusade Expansion!


It uses a lot of dice too


Monsters are classic WoW ones, and the detail level is great.


Game quests get harder as you progress

Gaming time will shorten in future plays, but for the first time we spent a full morning (4 hours) and we stopped half-way the game's 30 turns length.

I am really amazed how similar is the game to the computer MMORPG, you really feel as playing a boardgame equivalent and not "another boardgame".

If you want, the rules are in PDF format freely available for download:

Next weekend we'll continue with the WoW RPG roleplaying sessions!

Posted 03 June 08 by Kartones | with no comments