Last week I attended a local convention here in Jacksonville, FL called RapierCon.  This is my second year attending and I’ve enjoyed both years.
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This week my Monday face-to-face group finished up our dip into Keep on the Shadowfell.  We didn’t finish the module, not by a long-shot.  In fact, we finished up the sidetreks first and then ended the night with only the Keep left.  Want to hear about it?  Read on…
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Rich, Mick and Judd are back for more inspired discussion drawn from rpg blog posts and news bits. Wanna know what we talked about? Well, listen to the show, willya? And if you want show notes, then jump down past the ‘read the rest’ and check ‘em out.

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Sean Patrick Fannon name-checks us on his LiveJournal, and elaborates a bit on the concept of the Shaintar Consortium that we mentioned in CPS #69:

Notes from Sean’s Mountain – [Shaintar] You’ve Got a Golden Ticket.

My Monday face-to-face group continued deeper into the Keep on the Shadowfell module for D&D 4th edition.

We agreed that instead of heading straight into the keep that the party would follow a lead on a cave of marauding kobolds; we immediately jumped to map combat with some kobolds on the road to the caves.

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Rich and Mick are joined once again by Judd Karlman for the 70th installment of CPS, and of course that means lots of interesting conversation ensues about Fight On! magazine, giving characters depth, alternatives to experience points, and the ups and downs of the notion of escapism in fiction and roleplaying - and if ya stick around ya just might learn somethin’!

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This past Monday, my face-to-face group sat down after a three week hiatus to finally kick off our D&D 4th Edition game.  Since I concluded my OD&D for the group (which I’ve posted some AP on here and here), one of the players stepped behind the screen for this D&D 4th Edition romp.  He borrowed my Keep on the Shadowfell module (of which I’d only skimmed the initial fight, whew) to get his feet wet, since he hadn’t DMed in over a decade.

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Go to the Orphic Institute for Advanced Studies and secure a copy of the upcoming instructional manual for their revolutionary new memory-recovery process.

Someday, I gotta get my butt to one of these Nerdly events. Or a GoPlay event. Or a con that isn’t GenCon. Anyway, watch this, and then go visit Jason Morningstar’s Bully Pulpit Games.