Well, it’s been a longer sabbatical from blogging here than I expected. Goodness, what a lot of spam I had to deal with on my return….amazing the stuff people try and sell you, and the pretexts they use for selling it, eh? I am very sorry to anyone who may have posted a genuine comment but after twenty minutes of scanning through comments in moderation for genuine ones and making very little progress through the stack I decided that the only thing to do was junk the lot.
What have I been up to? Finishing my Masters’ degree has loomed large, had some exams to get through and a project and dissertation to complete. Modelling magnetohydrodynamic interfacial waves in aluminium reduction cells, if you must know. Anyway, all that’s out of the way at last.
Though my blog has fallen silent, I’ve still been keeping up the tabletop gaming goodness. When I stop doing that it will be time to switch off the life support. Gherkin’s Greyhawk has been rumbling on like an unstoppable juggernaut. I’ll post some updates on the latest goings-on over the next few weeks.
Here’s hoping that everyone has enjoyed a fruitful gaming life in my absence.
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June 19th, 2010 at 10:22 am
Hey Chris,
Long time no see!
I had totally forgotten about this site till Dave mentioned it in his reply to my ‘whatever happend to D&D’ e-mail.
I think its been 2-3 years since I did any kind of Pen and Paper roleplay, man do I miss it!
I dusted off my 3.5 source books the other day, maybe its time to come out of retirement, convert that bad boy Snake and play again.
What do you think, still got time to convert old Snake to a 3.5? I promise not to throw my toys out the pram this time (well most of them).
June 19th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Hi Grahame,
Good to hear from you! (Luckily I spotted your comment amongst the spam…..). As Dave said he’s been joining in the Weds night sessions through Skype. Believe it or not, we are still running the Monmurg sub-campaign that Dave initiated with the attack on Gradsul harbour, must have been about 4 years ago real time? Things are getting close to a conclusion now, most of the active PCs are currently in the thick of battle at Westkeep (I’m running the battle as an adventure, I will be writing a blog post on that here shortly).
I’ll dust off those Snake conversion notes I made and email you sometime soon! I will also sort out a login for you on the forum and wiki.
June 20th, 2010 at 6:45 am
Thanks Chris,
Its amazing that its 4 years on and your still running that part of the campaign! Gary mentioned that
‘Ugrat is still working for Snake (theoretically
however we haven’t caught up with that story since we converted to D&D 3.5 (this means that he’s probably helping Snake end the world for all I know 
.’
I have just finished reading over the Quest for the Hanging Glacier, seems like the mission was a success
.
June 20th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Well, there are a few things that conspired to drag the Monmurg storyline out. For starters, there was the low-level stuff that I was running with the Patriots of Ulek / Caves of Chaos party which we spent a while on (that was our first taste of 3.5e, not sure if you were around when we were converting those guys, I think that was around the time you left us). Then the ‘Rescuers’ storyline with the higher level characters needed finishing off – they got stranded in the Abyss and spent a while extricating themselves, which was when we did the conversion to 3.5 for the higher level characters.
After that we had new players join and there was a general desire to have some lower-level characters work their way up a few levels doing some Monmurg-related stuff (but the Caves of Chaos party were too unconnected to the main campaign so we couldn’t sensibly use them) so I ran a diplomatic mission in Loftwick which turned into an ‘uncover the evil cult that’s stirring up trouble for Keoland’ type thing – which was a mini-campaign in its own right.
Meanwhile there was the spying mission to Monmurg to resolve, and a few other little sub-plots and side quests. And also, on alternate weeks, JD has been running a completely unrelated adventure – ‘Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil’ – which is where the Caves of Chaos party have ended up.
Glad you managed to catch up on the ‘Quest for the Hanging Glacier’. That party have been ‘on hold’ since the end of that adventure but I plan to return to continue their adventures after Monmurg concludes.
By the way, Lorraine Marcher is back in play, as an NPC. She’s with the party at Westkeep.
June 20th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Oh, and on top of all that, we were running a GURPS campaign for a while as well.
June 21st, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Interesting that you mention Lorraine, I have been reading through our old PBM stuff on her only a few days ago! I bet you wil never guess who’s character sheet I found the other day….
Samson Marcher! thats right Lorraine’s brother. on the character sheet it has him down as recovering in the temple of Pelor in Restendford! Stranger still it appears he also wants to be a paladin!
Anyone one remember these guys:
Mumm-ra (Lizard Fighter)
Janis the Healer (Human Druid)
June 21st, 2010 at 3:12 pm
So that’s where Samson Marcher went to! He and Sunaeco have matching tatoos you know. (A Sahuagin being impaled on a spear). I doubt if he would still be in Restenford, unless he decided to hire on as a temple guard there.
I certainly do remember Mumm-Ra, he was another of Sunaeco’s buddies. Can’t say I remember Janis the Healer though.
June 21st, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Yep, it has tattoo written down on the character sheet
If I remember correctly wasn’t Emily running Mumm-Ra (how long ago was that?)
Janis was Daves character from way back when Steve Hurley was running a campaign, I can’t remeber exactly what it was but there were giants, lots of giants!
Thats where I got my halfling guardian from.
June 22nd, 2010 at 4:17 am
Yes, Mumm-Ra was Emily’s character.
Did your halfling guardian character play in the original Temple of Elemental Evil? I seem to remember something about that. Do you still have his character sheet?
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 am
I think so, was the Temple of Elemental Evil one of the G modues? I seem to remeber G3 being mentioned around that time.
I have his sheet somewhere, around I’m pretty sure I do
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:26 am
Um, no, ToEE wasn’t one of the G’s (it’s actually T1-4), but there is a shrine to the Elder Elemental God in one of the G modules. Maybe that’s where the reference came from.
June 24th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Grahame, I have sent you the promised email on Snake.