It was gaming day for Action Team North as well! Enron and I got together with some of the SF game guys to try out Magic Realm, a behemoth of a game, perhaps THE behemoth of a game. It went how I think most first-time games of Magic Realm go: a ton of rules explanation, finally starting, immediately getting bogged down on some rules points, handwaving it, playing a bit, running into another confusing situation, everybody looking at the rules for a while, then giving up and having a beer. :) It was still lots of fun! The game is so crazy and complicated, that it begs for further exploration.

In our case it was the native hireling rules that bogged us down -- Matt and I just kind of failed on those. I've been using Realm Speak to play through some of the situations that vexed us. It's started to become clear... very slowly.

I think most involved wanted to give it another shot, and I think it's gonna happen. I'm really hoping to get a game going at Kubla. Aeryk, what do you say? Spend Saturday morning/early afternoon getting into the Realm?

And for Rude/Ja-el, we should fire up the online version sometime, hopefully the technical obstacles wouldn't be too gnarly. It's a board game version, of a role-playing game, created by Avalon Hill at an extreme level of complexity and simulation, in 1979.

Edit: Love how the default pane is HTML, yet if you type in that pane, your line breaks don't work? Yeah, great update Google.