I've been reading blogs, and watching youtube video's all day because momma is too busy to play C&C today so we cancelled and I'm lazy. Now I'm watching "I'm Still Here
" and googleing Phoenix. Since I started reading X-men when John Byrne knocked it out of the park I wanted to throw some thing up, and I like women with tattoos. I should go read Icons, because the movie is boring me at this point.
I bet I missed a few. Obviously I didn't read everything, most of the books I just wanted to have, yes I am a consumer. Some I started reading and gave up on after a couple of pages or chapters I've want to play rules lighter games and GDW products are not rules light. 
for the low freak P.A. junkie I am.
or some other pulpy low magic fantasy game.
to off set the low magic pulp game.
because FATE games are cool, and I love me some syfy.
, maybe I should read Icons
.
I wrote this about Atomic Highway which I brought with me to Utah for Thanksgiving for some getaway reading. Super glad I did, it has been a great read, and looks like it'll be a fun system to run and play. My read on the V6 engine is storyteller light, use d6's instead of ten's but you never roll mitt full of them most PC's will never roll more than four. Character creation, vehicle construction are fairly easy to understand while the concepts and tropes are familiar for the low fantasy radioactive future. 
Yeah there are mutants, but this isn't Gamma World
(which I am itching to play), the mutations are more like Costner's character in Water World than the gonzo mutations in TMNT Road Hogs, and Mutant Future
etc. Don't get me wrong, I loved the Road Hogs games my buddy Chris ran, but I prefer my Post Apocalypse 
sicience fiction these days more along the lines of The Postman
(yeah I know it's cheesy), The Book of Eli
, even I am Legend.
Our Saturday night DM ended the game on the edge of a huge cliffhanger this week. We have been, I think running through Scourge of the Slave Lords, or Secrets of the Slavers Stockades although heavily modified by the DM. Anyway midway through the evening we find a stairway down to a lower level. We were almost immediately set upon by an Arial Servant, that attempted to scoop up Ryoon our elven archer, luckily he was able to break free, after a short engagement our Mage Horis wasn't so lucky. 
We raced after Hoiris, and quickly fell into an ambush. An evil somethingorother dude zapped Rufio our rogue into an unknown portal, and proceeded to electrocute us with a fancy Bronze Dragon helm, ouch! I forget who got the best of the evil dude, but when they did the Arial Servant opened some sort of portal back to the astral plane. The group wanting/hoping to save Rufio hastily followed the Arial Servant in the vain hope of locating the poor rogue. What a great cliff hanger, and it was fun.
I got home late, but the next morning after my coffee the first thing I did was pull out my copy of Jeff Grubb's excellent The Manual of the Planes to do a little research, although after I finished the first couple of paragraphs I thought better and closed the book, I'd hate to spoil my own fun. The fact that we were even battling an arial servant, or ended up on the astral plane was a mystery to us until the end of the session when the DM let it slip we were all on the same plane then spilled the rest. I've never adventured on another plane as a player of a DM so I am excited where we are going.
I went into the match wanting to push hard, and the first day I shot well, day two on the other hand I crashed hard, but managed to pick myself up on day three (really a quarter day). I ended up 13th. not really where I wanted to be, but I learned a bunch. My lovely wife photographed all weekend from which I grabbed this and did a quick edit.
I mentioned previously that one of the players in our C&C
is playing a monk, cleverly named Yoda (I'm thinking the name would have fit a gnome better, the player chose to be human). As an encouragement to get the players to complete their aspects worksheet I gave them a generous amount of experience points which when combined with the encounter and treasure xp was enough to bump the monk up to third level. In my opinion one of the coolest monk abilities (gained at 2nd level) is deflection of normal missiles. When a missile that normally hit the monk they may make a dexterity check. If the check succeeds the monk deflects the missile and takes no damage. The monk can only deflect one missile a round, must be aware of the attack, and have a free hand to deflect the missile. 
Yoda is also the only none elf in the troupe, I don't particularly care for elves. Maybe Orlando Bloom's portrayal of Legolas forever turned me off to elves, maybe because I enjoy playing Gygaxien dwarves who don't care for elves, who knows and I don't care, I just don't like elves. To throw a wrench in the parties works I made the elven characters come from a secretive/secluded nation state, and the humans in the region they are adventuring in are afraid and suspicious of all elves who they share a border with. I hope the players will struggle with racism and this will lead to interesting role-playing. Since the group arrived at the Keep
yoda has had to interact with most of the NPC's since none of them is willing to speak to the elves. I am a little worried this will put a bit to much emphasis on Yoda while at the Keep, however I'm hoping this trend will continue where I give each player the spot light for a while and allow them to explore their characters more in-depth.
Tolkien Elves are tough, which is one of the reasons I suppose people like playing elves. AD&D 1e/2e elves with their infra-vision +1 to hit with long bow or long sword +1 dexterity, basically immune to charm and sleep and on and on. C&C elves inherit from Gygax most of those traits. One thing I really like is elves have twilight vision not deepvision (Dwarves, 1/2 orcs. and Gnomes mostly) which finally makes sence to me. Why would the terrainean elf get the same underground vision as the subterranean dwarf.
