Blood in Borca

  This week’s Season of Horror adventure was Blood in Borca. A few players were out so we combined player groups and I ran the session. The party included

• Human Artificer (not sure what his subclass was) [normally plays in other group]
• Bugbear Ranger (Hollow Warden)
• Dwarf Barbarian (Path of the Berserker)
• Lupin Druid (Circle of the Moon) [same build as the druid in my previous game but different player)

After slaying the illithid vampire in Darkon, the players wake in the domain of Borca. They save a noble from wolves. He hires them to accompany him to a party. The host uses his newly acquired shadow raven powers to incapacitate the party. They wake up in a lab and their new noble patron is ordered to repair a mechanical spider. While this is going on the party are forced to fight a fiery dwarf (an azer). The battle is hard fought and the artificer and barbarian are severely wounded, but survive.

The next room (and final encounter) contains the evil noble (a Priest of Osybus), his two fanatical cultists, and four spies that serve him. This fight was BRUTAL. The cultists started the fight by casting Hold Person on the barbarian and artificer (who failed). Then the Priest used his Soul Blade to constantly paralyze the wildshaped druid. There were many rounds of characters doing nothing but taking critical hits because they were paralyzed. If it wasn’t for the druid, it would have been a TPK. After several rounds, eventually the druid (with help from the ranger and mechanical spider) were able to take out their foes. The fight was frustrating, but ultimately the heroes triumphed. While I was chuckling at first, honestly, I felt bad during this fight. The constant paralyzing effects just made the fight tedious and frustrating.

Next week will be the final Season of Horror adventure, Victory in Valachan.

Origins 2026 Photodump

In no particular order, here are some pics I took at Origins.

This is Matt from Forever Stoked Creative and his shirt is dope!

The Columbus Pride parade was Saturday and locals decorated the Arnie stature in front of the GCC.

Brandon from Wet Ink Games is such a great human being. Love him!

If you love 80's/90's sleeze, you HAVE to check out Brian Shutter's work.

Doug Schute is an aspiring force of positivity in the gaming space. 

With signs like this, its easy to see why I love Wet Ink Games.

Edwin Mullavey is an amazing artist and GM I met through Lurking Fears a few years back.

This gargoyle at the Mythic Legions booth is so cool.

I brought a lot of props from my personal collection for my Honk Legions game.

This is James, aka Jimmy D. He's an artist and geek I've been friends with since 7th grade. Love this guy. 

It was wonderful seeing Mr. Dragonbane himself, Jonathon Myhre.

Justin Sirois is a friend and inspiration. It was so cool to see himi again and meet his family.

Mike and Andy from Limitless Adventures are real class acts. They are the reason I've been able to go to Origins the past few years.

I spent so much money on 1st and 3rd party Pirate Borg stuff from this booth.

Caught Matt from Wet Ink Games and Brian from Creature Curation filming a game jam vid.

My kid and I before we left for the con Wednesday. I was so happy we went to Origins together this year.

Origins 2026 - Overview

Origins Game Fair 2025 was fantastic! I went with my kiddo and we both had a lot of fun and made great memories. While it’s nice to stay at a connected hotel, they can be pricey. That’s why we stayed at the Worthington Motor Lodge. It’s a no-frills motel about 20 minutes from the convention center. It’s clean, the beds were comfortable, and I saved 600 dollars by staying there. If you just need a clean place to stay while in Columbus and don’t plan on spending much time at your hotel, I’d say it’s a great value and worth it.

We were able to attend the convention as exhibitors this year thanks to Andy and Mike from Limitless-Adventures. I ran several sessions of their upcoming game Further Adventures TTRPG. The system is fast and streamlined. It hits the perfect sweet spot between free-form narrative games and classic crunchy systems. The GM describes a session, the player reacts with their action and make a roll based on their skills. A cool feature of the system is rather than a bunch of bonuses or negatives added to die rolls, there is a dice progression system. For example, of rolling an extra 1 to your d6 roll, you would roll a d6 instead. This works the other way too, as die can be dialed down as well. The Kickstarter launches at the end of July and there are several sessions being ran at GenCon. Y’all definitely need to keep an eye on this one. 

I also ran two sessions of The Honk Legion. I went all out with this one. Since it was demon clown themed, I had several circus props for the game. I also used Laffy Taffy to represent heroic inspiration and made folks read one of the awful jokes from the candy when using it. Both groups successfully turned Chookles-Chookles lieutenants against him, though in different ways.

As far as con swag goes, I may have went a little overboard of the Pirate Borg and Pirate Borg adjacent items I didn’t have. I also snagged a few DCC books.  My most exciting purchase was my Caver mini from Severed Books. I’ll talk more about it and the books related to it later this week. Speaking of Severed Books, it was so great to Justin Sirois of SB. He’s an amazing artist, excellent writer, and all-around beautiful soul.

I’ll do another post later today or tomorrow with sharing pics.

Punching Nazis Is Always The Right Choice

I've decided its time for another Punch A Nazi Week. Come back in a week for new allies and foes for your DCC supers game.

Art by Frenzzy Soda

Happy Father's Day to my fellow father's and I can't wait to let y'all know how Origins went.

Fuccubus Friday - Mozul

 Last week I talked about Malcanthet, this week I thought I'd share some art of one of her high priests (and sometimes plaything), Mozul.

Origins Bound!

Good morning all! While I do have to go to work for a bit today, I'm working a short day. This afternoon my kiddo and I are are heading to Columbus for Origins Game Fair. This year's theme is cyberpunk, which isn't my thing, but could still be cool. I've got a few posts scheduled, but no real new game content this weekend. If you are attending the con, look for me at the Limitless Adventures booth (22110).

Can't wait to share pics and stories from the con with everyone.

Death in Darkon

Earlier tonight I ran the third session of the Season of Horror, Death in Darkon. It was a blood bath (which is fitting because it's vampire-centric). This week Enza has sent the party to the domain of Darkon to stop the second shadow raven. My group this week was made up of the following:

• Bugbear Ranger (Hollow Warden)
• Dwarf Barbarian (Circle of the Moon)
• Drow Fighter (Eldritch Knight) 

They awake in an underground river. The first encounter they face off with an elven vampire familiar, two bandit captains, and four toughs. I was rolling crits like crazy and they had a small party. The drow (played by my kid) was taken out in one round by the familiar. The party was killed and since we had plenty of time I pulled a Groundhog's Day and let them run through it again. I took the four toughs out and still cause a party wipe. I asked them if they wanted to fight the adventure's boss, an illithid vampire, for the Hell of it. While the dwarf went down, they killed the abomination.

Despite the deaths, everyone had a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to next week's adventure, Blood in Borca.

Road to Ruan

In addition to Honk Legion I’m running several sessions of Road to Ruan. Here’s an event description:

Your party is hired to find a local merchant who has disappeared on the road to the nearby city of Ruan. You'll gather clues in town before heading into the wild. Be the first to play this new TTRPG by Limitless Adventures.

I love Andy and Mike from Limitless Adventures. Their work is great and I’ve reviewed several of their releases. Additionally they are just genuinely awesome dudes. For the past few years they’ve allowed me access to one of their booth badges for the con. This year they also let my kiddo have one of the spares.

Full confession, I’ve not played this new system yet, even though I’m running it Thursday. I’ve not even read the rules. Andy is going to run the adventure for me Wednesday night. He said he’s confident in my ability to learn and run it.

Sign up for a session here.

Music Monday - Who Will You Be

 Here's another Critical Role inspired tune, though instead of jaunty this one is sexy. 

Jester's mother, Marion Lavorre (aka the Ruby of the Sea), would be a great focus for a future Fuccubus Friday post.