Elf Blood

It’s the weekend again, hooray! And I’m looking forward to Friday night more than ever today – Some of my pals are coming round for games, fine dining, and general palling around.

The plan is for the evening to be built around a little piece of roleplaying nonsense that we haven’t done in a while – Mashup Roleplaying. I think I might have mentioned it before, but for the benefit of those who I haven’t told, the premise is simple: Each player constructs a very simple character sheet, with very generalised skills and a high-level concept (Warrior, Sharpshooter, Charmer, that sort of thing). They then put a number of genres into a hat, and a number of settings into another. Two genres are then pulled out, along with a setting, and the GM has five minutes to come up with a quick scenario using those parameters for the players to roleplay in. It’s immense fun, and a real roleplaying challenge!

Last time we ran it, we got a Medieval Cyberpunk set in an abandoned lab. This resulted in a tense, dangerous, and hilarious dungeon crawl where the supposed magitek expert wound up mashing buttons connected up to a cyber-demon, fighter misidentified a magical rocket launcher as a club (with explosive consequences), and possibly the world’s only contested save-vs-heal check.

I’m looking forwad to seeing what comes out of tonight’s session! And you can be sure I’ll retell the tales on Monday!

Anyway, I’d best be off now – have a great weekend everyone, and I’ll catch you soon!

M.