With a Session 0/1 under our belts, and some intriguing characters needing adventure, our Conan 2D20 RPG mini-campaign got properly underway last night. Our heroes, of appropriately loose character, are off to steal a jewel artefact from the house of a noted scholar in Argos. Their patron, the outstandingly wealthy merchant Publio, doesn’t want any embarrassing complications with the city authorities. It’s a simple in, grab and out job, though of course they are never that simple.
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| Tom’s awesome widescreen monitor |
I was looking forward to getting some proper use out of Foundry VTT on Forge hosting and using the LiveKit extension for audio video feeds. Foundry is a much more complex VTT than Role, designed as a heavyweight map and token style interface in the Roll20 and Fantsy Grounds mould. I find running games on it highly intuitive and straightforward, able to leverage a lot of the features without much cognitive load, leaving me to enjoy the interplay and fun.
In a way, the same can be said for the Conan 2D20 system. It’s a medium crunch take on the system, with plenty going on as players call out their awesome Talents, and we juggle witht he up-front meta currencies. And yet the game flows very well and certainly lots of fun in play.
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| Ransacking… |
With Dom, Paul, Alex and Tom engaging throughout, we had a fun first full session of play. The characters are gelling and forming some great teamwork, the mechanics are enhancing play, generating successes, failures and complications that spark new avenues and dialogue.
The picture to the right captures the moment the company find the study in the scholar’s house, and close to the moment we had to wrap up until next time.
It’s great that the group have managed ot stay together after the epic Curse of Strahd 5e campaign, and I’m lucky to have such great roleplayers, making the game so good.
I’m determined to keep the game to a tight timetable, availability allowing, so that we can enjoy, but then move onto our next game. We all seem to like 2D20 a great deal! I’ll post some more as this short campaign continues, though they won’t be full after action reports, to keep them spoiler light.
Fun gaming times!
