Well, so far...

so good. Our contact from Pen and Paper has agreed to show for a second game session, and we have discovered another co-worker who's up for gaming. Now we start Pathfinder, I'm going to run the Second Darkness adventure path under the PFRPG beta.

If anyone's run this before... pointers would be nice... I just dropped the money on the Companion in a .pdf to let the players dig through... I'd like to drop some on the Pathfinder Campaign Setting book... but I have recently acquired a cat familiar who picked a fight with my engine block and survived... I know now what all the gold in the acquisition of one goes to now... Vet bills...

Also it seems the Iowa trip was worth it, as it allowed me to aquire several gaming books at used shops... including something I didn't know existed. Eric Flint's 1632/Ring of Fire universe has a rpg book. It uses the Action! system... but conversion should be simple. Now if I can just get some of the people who read those books with me to sit down at a gaming table...

I discovered/came-up-with something interesting while there as well... E. and I are starting a long term Battletech campaign... and because we're playing 3020 with two companies... one Lyran and one Federated Suns... who've been stationed in the same system in order to start the integration process caused by the alliance.

Well we wanted a bit more depth to our pilots than names... and I happened to be reading up on the 3.5/OGL diplomacy skill when something hit me... I opened a spreadsheet and put all our pilot names in the first row (starting at column two)... and the first column (starting at row two) to create a simple reference chart (like one would see on a road map that has distances from town to town...

Then since there are 5 attitudes in the diplomacy chart we simply rolled d10/2 for each bit... We've only started to sort what we got out... but it's already started thoughts about relationships between pilots... and other such things to provide some flavor to it.

576 entries is a bit much to parse... but it dawned on me (and I intend to use it for some of this) that it'd be a great way to determine anything from NPC attitudes towards one another in more role play oriented game, to what Nations are allies and enemies at the start of a campaign.