And so we reach the end of the RPGaDay questions. It’s been a fun little blogging experience.

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28. Scariest game you’ve played?

Probably the convention game I mentioned in a previous entry, the CoC scenario Forget Me Not. Not that it was really scary, but it was creepy, and like an ear worm stayed with me for a while. I don’t really want to give spoilers about it, lets just say there is body horror involved. 

29. Most memorable encounter?

In Attronarch’s Wilderlands campaign, during session 28, we were playing through Matthew Finch’s adventure, The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom. We were descending into a river filled cave system occupied with evil pod men. We came into a chamber filled with mutated ents, evil trees of some sort. This was the moment that our party, who had been playing together for many weeks, were joined by some new players. The way we dealt with the trees; by forming up as a unit; by steadily marching back whilst loosing arrows; by controlling the battle field; by isolating the monsters from each other into pinch points; everything about how we fought together was *chefs kiss* simpatico.  Whoever says that combat is a fail state in the OSR simply doesn’t know how to play the game well enough. That’s my hot take. Combat is not a fail state if you know how to control a battle, how to work as a team, and give yourself all available advantage. 

30. Obscure RPG you’ve played?

A friend once ran a game called lasers and feelings. I don’t know if it has a a following, I’d certainly never heard of it. I wasn’t a fan. You simply use one d6 to resolve everything. You have two stats, lasers, I.e. your physical skills, and feelings, I.e. your social skills. Having high properties in one, means you have lower skills in the other. All checks are just made on a d6 against one of the two appropriate stats. It’s not really a game. 

31. Favourite RPG of all time?

Right now it house ruled B/X D&D. But I am reading AD&D a lot at the moment and tempestuously battling urges to switch my campaign to Gary’s Game.