4AD Game After Action Report

So A Warrior, Cleric, Wizard, and Halfling walk in to a Dungeon.......

Part 1

For this game I did a random party by rolling for each player. I did re-roll one roll as it would have given me two of the same class. I wanted this to be 4 different chr. So I ended up with my normal but for a Halfling.

• Warrior- Soegar: Light Ar, shild, sword, and a bandage 
• Cleric- Ja'la: Light Ar, Shild, and Mace, lantern (extra)
• Wizard- Giron: Light hand weapon, Bandage (x2), rope. Fire ball (3), LB (2), Sleep (1)
• Halfling- Vinroc Sacktwo: Sling, light hand weapon dagger, lantern

And off to the came entrance they went looking for all the goodies to make for a better life. When the party got to the entrance they had heard about from town locals it was a double door in the side of the mountain. Scratching their heads, that all agreed with the heck lets go for it. Soegar, grabbed the door and opened it. Moving into the large dark room they do not see any thing, but a passage on the West, and East wall at the back of the room. So off to the South they gooooo, bam they bump into 4 Orcs.
Soegar swings taking out one of the ugly folk, Ja'la being surprised missed, So as this was a corridor, the Wizard, and halfling had to sit this one out. The Orcs fought back but missed. Soegar was able to kill another, and Ja'la also landed a kill. With the remaining orc fleeing Vinroc was able to get a kill. Collecting a few GP the moved North into an empty corridor. Taking a their time they searched and found a clue. Giron said I did not come here for a few coins and incomplete info let keep going. Heading East, they found a temple and Vinroc was blessed (+1 ATK to Undead for one Kill). The only door in this corridor was at the North, they decided to take it. Opening the door to find 6 Orcs ready to kill. Soegar, and Ja'la being in the front were able to take the out, but each took a wound. They did find why the orcs were so tough they had 80GP with them, and Soegar leveled up.


Heading East again they found yet another empty corridor, and looking around yielded a Gem worth 40 gp. Giron, belted out this is why I am here, the rest of the party was agreeing with Giron and patting him on the back. Eager to keep going they went through the East door right into another 6 orcs. This fight was a bit tougher with all but Soegar taking wounds. Giron was poking the dead and found a Bless scroll to add to his wealth. This room had a North, and South door, and the party decided to take the North door.

Lets call the the half way point of the game, and this is a good stoping point for now. The game is moving very well, I have not picked up the rule book as much as my other games, I am learning the flow, and tables. and the encounters are getting quicker. So Now I can see me playing this a game in under an hour, but for the fact I love building the map. As you can see below, but this is not the best one I have done so far. My other were better maps, as I was also cooking diner while playing this game. I will post part two in the next day or so. If you have questions please comment.

Noel.

Four Against Darkness or 4AD.......

I started to write a game report of this new game from Andrea owner of Ganesha Games, but I have to stop. This new release form Andrea is what I have been waiting for for over 25 years. About 25 years ago I was a big D&D fan, I leaved and breathed D&D. I did not get to be a player much, as I was a very good DM. I would spend days building my own adventures, and the maps to go with them. I even took drafting in school to help with my maps. I have moved away from RPG, as I got tired being the DM, and ended up in the Miniatures gaming. I love small, games with a few minis, and large games will tons of minis.

Now Andrea comes up with a solo RPG, that is fun, it also builds the maps for you. If I had this book 25 years ago it would have saved a ton of time I spent building all of the maps I drew. Fast forward to today, I can see this book in every DM's book bag. This it not only a game, but a very good tool. You can use it as is or use it to build the map and use charts, and tables from any RPG system to fill in the fluff.

Now back to the game play. I have completed the adventure I started to review. It went on for a long time, as I had some great die rolls. I also completed a second adventure, that was over much quicker as I ended up with a final boss on the 12 turn.

I have a new war band, and this one is completely random as I did not pick them but rolled them.
This one will have a Warrior, Cleric, Wizard, and a Halfling. I will post this one for sure.

Noel

My First 4AD game.

I am going to start by saying I suck at writting! 
So yesterdy I got the game printed it out in my normal booklet format. I sat down and read through most of it. Once I thought I had a handle on this game I sat down to make my first roster. I picked as my first player  Belock the Warrior (Light Armor, Sword, Shield),and bandage. Next I have Grum The Dwarf (Heavy Armor, 2 hand axe) lantern, rope, bandage. Next I have Swann the Cleric (Light Armor, shield, mace) lantern. And lastly a Wizard Misto (small staff) bandage x2, lantern. In hind sight I only needed one lantern.

Now on to the map. I rolled for the entrance and ended up with a 4. As the party entered this entrance they were all excited to start their new careers and get on with it. So they needed to pick the right passage, or the left. As I am right handed that is the one they went for. On a roll of D66 I got 33. This is a corridor with a door on the far north end and on on the west wall. As this did not fit I rotated the room to make it work. The door in now at the south connecting this to the entrance room. And the door is now on the east wall.

As the party enters the door to the passage they see the room is empty. OK now the party is pissed. Their first day on the job, and their first door come up empty. The Cleric decides to search the place, an is rewarded with a clue. So now with only one way to go ( door on the east wall) the move up to it and Belock just opens the door. And to his surprise standing in room 52 from the book is a Boss Mummy. OK Belock says lets get it on. First o fight is Belock and he scores a great hit for one wound on the Mummy boss. Next up is Grum with his mighty axe went for the legs of the Mummy and was supprized  with a great hit, taking the Mummy Boss down to 3 life points. Swann not wanting to be left out went for a bash attach, and also dropped the Mummy down another LP. Misto waved his hands in a great show, and his fire ball grew with every wave of his hands, he then dropped it, finishing his attack with a big old OOPS my bad.

The Mummy took it out on Misto the clumsy with two attacks, but only one landed.
Quickly the party took care of the Mummy boss, who passed his M roll to stay and fight. In the end the party got a potion of healing,and Belock went up a level.

Time for a break. Will pick up the game tomorrow.

ASOBH Game Cards

Hello.....
I have created a set of cards for my Ratman army and wanted to share how I did this. First I start with having good photo of each minis I wanted to place on each card. I took photos of each of the Rat boys, using my coffee can photo box. Then I removed the background of the photo using Power Point. This is not required, but I felt it would give me a better looking card. To edit the photo I used Power Point in Office 2016, this can also be done in office 2010, and 2013 but it is done in word.

In this photo I have started to remove the back ground, then save the image as .png.


Now with the raw image (mini with no background) I added a new back ground also using Power Point. I had the new back ground open in a slide, then placed the mini over the back ground, grouped the two images and saved it.


Here is a photo I did in Word 2010, this is just an example.


Now that I have my photos I just needed to start up Magic Set Editor and make the cards.
For this I use the Leveler template. I just used the default fields as I wanted, and this can take a bit of messing around. Once I have a card I like I copy it and edit it with the new photo and information.

With the card set complete I just saved it then printed it off to PDF, and to paper. I an not sure if I will user my laminate the cards, or just print on card stock.

And the end result is this PDF file of my cards.


Well I hope this helps you make your own cards.