T.A. played Isaiah Kestrel, E.A. played Alice Pettigrew and Phillipe Gujon, and M.A. played Scarred Jack. They had a hard time with the enemy wildcard, who had the luck of the initiative most of the time, ending up with the Joker three times, and the high card of the draw most of the rest of the time. The enemy wildcard incapacitated Alice with one blow that ended up doing five wounds at a whack, and things were looking dire. However, the enemies luck with the iniative cards finally left him However, E.A., rolling for the crew extras who showed up after hearing Alice scream as she went down, aced an attack roll, then aced all three of the damage dice, and then aced at least one of the rerolls, putting the wildcard down decisively. After that M.A. had Scarred Jack try an untrained Healing roll and aced it big time, so Alice isn't quite as badly off as she was, and M.A. wants Jack wants to learn Healing for real now, which is neat.

Lots of fun.

I should have looked up all the details of the edges and hindrances and wrote them on the kids character sheets, and on my copies, before the kids came over for the game. I had to do it while they were there, and of course they wanted to get on to the gaming. However, I knew we'd be looking them up in the middle of game if I didn't.

We also need to play more often so I can keep the details in mind better. Maybe next weekend.

Around the table, starting with me as the GM at 6 o'lock, going clock-wise: M.A. played Gar IronHelm; E.A. played Merula Lanus; B.B. played Marcus Two Hands (when he wasn't helping out with baby C.A.); D.B. played Ramel Ramelson; and T.A. played Fox.

We got through the first encounter with very little difficulty, largely because I forgot the very important surprise packages, and then nearly had a TPK when I set them all off at once. They got to where they could hear the next encounter when we had to quit.

Maybe we can finish this at Thanksgiving.

There's more to the story, but we didn't have time to take it any further. We'll pick it up again later.

This post, right now, is sort of a placeholder. I intend to fill in my history with D&D and look at the various editions of D&D that I've got and see if they support the “the kind of game D&D has always been” remark.

As I've said elsewhere the release of 4E and the choruses of “It's not real D&D” actually got me interested me in looking back at what D&D really was, so I bought PDFs of Original D&D (from RPGNow) and its supplements and Chainmail and printed them all out and bound them in 8.5”x5” pamphlets, in more or less the original form factor. I've read Chainmail and the three pamphlets that made up the original D&D release (X, Y, Z) completely, and have scanned the others. (Oddly enough, I've still not got beyond scanning 4E.)