(A truncated view of the first, highlands, table the expedition traveled through.)Rats. It's been a long time since I've posted and now I am so behind!!!
So, here's a quicky to get me going again. Next will be posting the rest of the lead-in to our Game Day back on April 4th. Just waiting for photos from Poppa John since I got so involved that I only took a few. (Though some of them are pretty special!) Then I hope to go back to Tim the Elder's Battle of Barnet ("Stuck in this Puddle of Goo") game and post some photos and pics (since it's doubtful that'll I'll get around to posting all the rest of the lead up to it) and his Game Song.
We did have a great time with the Dino Hunt/Lost World Expedition Game! And talk about staying in character . . . At one point I was afraid that BB and Fondles were going to resort to duelling ~ over who "called" the dino that they were both shooting at!
I think I did make a fundamental mistake early on though. We're using a home brew set of rules based on the Fun little Big Game Hunt set, with some character add-ons from Rugged Adventures. Basically it's move then another action, which may be another move (resulting in a run), shot or other action. John asked if he could shoot twice and do nothing else. I said yes ~ hey, it made sense at the time (and I was a little worried that everybody would get eaten, despite the Cliff Hanger Rule)!
Yep, it was a mistake. Definitely lowered the difficulty factor. Add in the medicianl plants that were discovered and everybody survived, pretty much intact.
But they did all have Fun. And all of the terrain was used !!! And that was all TtE's fault! Early on he had suggested running an expedition game where we traveled the length of my six foot table, turned around went back to the end, and then did it again! So . . .
Yeah, I got a little excited and ended up spending most of my free evenings and weekend for a month making jungle terrain!
I really wanted them to have a sense of moving through different types of terrain, from the highlands to the river vallery and then into the lost jungle. I think I pulled it. Sure I had to cycle lots of the plants from table to table, but each one had very unique features. And I did customize the encounters for each table. (With a possibility of finding Chuck Steak or his remains on the very last table . . .)
Which is all part of why I haven't been posting regularly. I knew I couldn't resist posting photos of the cool terrain and I didn't want Tim the E to have a clue about what I was up to!
Now that they've played I'm hoping to get caught up and get some photos of the terrain posted and finish off the game's lead up chatter. And yeah, TtE really came through with his figures, yet more dinos, and a killer stockade and gate to keep us all safe from the nasties with long pointy teeths that lurked on the other side!!!
