Game session 19 of the Age of Worms campaign is in the books. The party continued down into the deepest corridors of the caves of Bhaal to find Grallak Kur and his minions. The party fought for some time, with Valgen succumbing to cause fear and Brutus to hold person. Fortunately, both effects ended fairly quickly. The group succeeded in capturing Grallak and interrogating him; however, they had trouble finding useful questions to pose. Valgen inhaled some hallucinogenic mushroom vapors and had a bizarre vision about Bane, Bhaal, Myrkul and the Age of Worms.
Eventually, the party drew tired of interrogating Grallak and listening to him telling them the Overgod will rise if they kill him. So, they killed him. The group then left the caves and returned to the large pool room with the elevator, only to find the elevator smashed, and a six-armed, ogre-sized monstrosity splintering the last bits of the only exit.
This creature wheeled on the party and tore into them. It seemed to feed on magic and surged with unholy energy, making its wounds heal instantly and arrow and blade flow from its hide like water. The party’s newly discovered dwarven rage cleric nearly met death at the claws of the colossus, but a quick-thinking Valgen dragged him to safety. Lyrin found that fire did nothing to the beast, and Cam’s arrows proved a minor irritation. However, the combined pressure from the entire party wore down the monster’s stamina, and it eventually exploded in a burst of gore when finally chopped down.
The party made plans to scale the chains of the elevator to the mines above and escape back into the safety of Daggerford.
After some conversations about the Descent: Journeys In the Dark board game, I found that several people had not heard about the HeroQuest game from Milton Bradley that came out several years back. Here is one of the best “fan” pages of the old game, for those interested.
I was at the new Supercenter Wal-Mart last night, and they had the Master Set of HeroScape on sale for $28.49. So, I picked up my 4th set. They are regularly priced $39.99, so that’s a 29% discount.
They also had the series 5 figures for $7.49.
I stumbled upon a very cool site that I meant to post about. Check out Avatar Art.
WizKids has recently released a new variation on their popular HeroClix game. It is filled with horror icons of all types. I’ll have to pick some packs up some time. See the official website.
Fantasy Flight Games has released a new “board” game that looks really intriguing. It is very similar in concept to the old Heroquest game. Take a look at Descent and its expansion sets. It is astounding in its expense, but it comes with a large number of models, so I’m sure production costs were staggering as well.
Bruce at Hirst Arts has completed two molds in the caverns line. They allow for the building of floor tiles and accessories. Visit the site here.
I stumbled upon a very cool concept art web site today, called ConceptArt.org. I recognize some of the artwork for Wizards of the Coast and Paizo products. Just thought I’d share.
Eden Studios recently announced that they and FOX have mutually agreed to not renew the license for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel role-playing games. Both use the Unisystem game system (same as All Flesh Must Be Eaten). Eden will continue to support their existing products, but new releases are not forthcoming.
Next month sees the release of Eden Studios’ latest All Flesh Must Be Eaten product, Argh! Thar Be Zombies. Fairly obviously, it combines two genres, pirates and the living dead. It should be interesting. I plan on getting it myself, but I’m curious if anyone thinks it sounds like something fun to play?