Kingmakerless Game Session

There were only four of us this past Saturday evening.

Not wanting to deprive our fellow players of further storyline, and not wanting to each run an additional character, we set aside Pathfinder and brought out Atmosfear: The Gatekeeper.  It's seldom a group of people can be called stupid so many times in under an hour, but that's the least of the Gatekeeper's harassment.  He sent us to black holes, made us lose turns, and ultimately beat us (even though we thought briefly that Lacey won, at only 17 seconds remaining, until we remembered she had the black key and much rejoicing turned to much disappointment).

Kalan took her leave after that and I capped the evening with my Doctor Who propaganda thing, showing the accessible episode "Vincent and the Doctor" to my remaining guests.  I forgot to mention to them that I have the most recent Doctor Who role playing game, in a box, somewhere, for another time...

Kingmaker Begun

The first Kingmaker session went off without a hitch.  One player short, but that's OK because the table, large as it is, seems to shrink once the players gather.  To the right is an image of the last moment of the evening, marking the characters' places on the map.

Storywise, the party managed to complete the initial encounter with the bandits hassling Oleg's.  It was your basic early level encounter, but I see I'm going to have to ramp up the difficulty a little.  Not only did the players easily best the bandits, they could have atrociously slaughtered them all (as it happens, only a couple were cut down like trapped beasts).  A couple of the characters didn't even get in on the action, it all happened with such ruthless efficiency.  There were two captives in the end, two that quite likely soiled themselves just before hastily throwing their hands up in surrender.

I'll designate this a good start.