UNBRIDLED TRUTH

Having been playing a bunch of Ironsworn lately, I decided to do a one-shot in Starforged, to remind myself a bit of the changes in that compared to the original game. Rather than going through Truths in full, I just decided to pretty much use the setting from Age of Wonders: Planetfall, so if anything seems unexplained and confusing, the best answer is probably to refer to that game's lore. Compared to Quinn's series , expect this to be lighter on roleplay and more focused

Session 0 Session 14 While I don't normally do content warnings, due to the very sensitive nature of stuff that comes up in this session, be forewarned that it has (veiled) discussions of CSA and abusive relationships. That out of the way, wow, a lot happened in this session. Sojourn seems to always give me a pile of wonderful roleplay, and wrapping up a couple of lingering vows also meant some key changes on the character sheet. This was definitely among my favorite sessio

Session 0 Session 13 Resolving that string of Weak Hits at the start was a bit of a journey, but once it all shook out onto firm ground, it did finally get to a point to proceed from in a pretty fun way. I feel like I'm getting close to attempting to fulfill the main vow that's been driving the last few sessions, which does have me nervous about it going terribly wrong, but hey, I wouldn't roll so many dice if I didn't enjoy some thrill of gambling. Makari led the way to a s

I can read between the lines. Tuesday   Muay Thai class This was a volume day, to make up for the holiday on Monday disrupting the regular flow of things. We did a few rounds of smaller drills and then putting them together into a larger one, then eventually finished up with some high volume round kicks. It was a good grinder straight off of a bit of a break. Wednesday   Muay Thai class The guest kru was back to teaching for this day, and he was also back to having us do ra

Session 0 Session 12 I have my own ways of handling extended skill check obstacles normally (theoretical long-time readers will have come across them on this blog before), but in the interest of giving Ironsworn a try as RAW as I can tolerate, I decided to use its scene challenge rules instead of my own approach. It worked out well enough this time, but honestly, aside from giving a bit of an opening for how to handle combat with alternative objectives to just straight viole

Session 0 Session 11 Another frustrating to start to this session, in terms of roll results, but things did even out some as it went on, at least. The intrigue has certainly ramped up, which is kind of wild considering this whole beast hunt sidequest started out as just the result of a weak hit on reaching my destination, but that's the Ironsworn way. Had it not been for that miss when making camp, I might have been in a position to try finishing it in this session, but con

Session 0 Session 10 This session was frustrating to play. Fun, too, but with ten rolls that came up as either weak hits or misses, half of which were 1 action score away from being a better result category, it seemed like everything I tried doing was futile. Granted, I did still make some decent progress towards the iron vow I'm focusing on despite that, and I was pleased with the dice setting me up for the conflict that I had been hoping for as the climax of this vow (bec

Between the holiday on Monday and a work trip later on, I'll have my workout pattern disrupted this coming week. Maybe that'll be a good thing overall. Monday   Muay Thai class This was a typical Monday stamina class. We did lots of round kicks, including finishing with a couple drills of repeated round kicks mixed with push ups. I felt off mentally, and I think that was reflected in making a couple of atypical mistakes from loss of focus, but I was still getting good impa

Session 0 Session 9 I'd expected this to be mostly travel montage stuff, but that miss on Undertake A Journey gave a pretty fun detailed scene. Which, yes, I understand that that's the point of the Move, but even so, it's neat that it worked out like that and finally gave Quinn a chance to lean into his Trickster asset, since that seemed like the one which has seen the least impactful use overall (aside from Awakening, but it's hardly fair to compare one he started with to o

Session 0 Session 8 Going into this, I had a few different thoughts about what I could do with the EXP that Quinn was sitting on. There are a few upgrades for his existing assets that I want, and there are also a handful of rituals that felt fitting to pick up based on the experiences with the mystic site resulting from the initial miss on fulfilling the vow to help Redmoor. I ended up deciding to roleplay out some more of Quinn's time at this settlement, and with the way t