The Pixar Grail

Hippo n Dino:
- Get a phonecall from princess "I'm held hostage in the castle"
- "find my friends Lightning McMceen, Mac and Doc and get them to help"
- Go to the water (shaggy carper of next room)
- A big plank washes up
- They get on, and paddle it across the sea (each kid pushed his char, so they had to coordinate to keep moving straight
- Get to the island (sofa)
- have to call to get noticed.
- Lightning is so effin cool he just jumps down
- Mac says, "i'm too big", they have to make human ladder (with rolling to see if they hold the weight) to let him down
- at one point dino fails roll (3D6 <10), but hippo manages to catch Mac before he falls (3D6>12)
- SImilar for doc

- Sail the now crowded plank back across the sea
- Disembark, start going to castle

- On the way, 3 riders come out and shoot at them, some hits
- they attack and get one down
- the other 2 riders retreat, shoot over shoulder (penalty = only 1 attack instead of two)
- they manage to get one more down, the 3rd gets back into castle and slams door

- Usual fight against castle defenders
- Penalty for fiighting up defenders on walls, half number of attacks, rounded up (so DIno 4->2, Hippo 3 ->2)
- Lightning heads for the back door, releases queen and maid
- Queen keeps getting stuck in windows because of her dress

After victory:
- Maid balances 2 ladders on top of one another to get princess down
- Princess flies down coz she's got wings (Zoë thought of this) d'oh
- Queen issues kisses and bananas (=heals) to all
- Cars say: "I'm a car - don't eat bananas" hilarity ensues
- What do cars eat? Petrol - queen issues petrol and cars heal (Mac gets diesel instead)

a solid hours play

Adventure: Sheep II

- Just played a 1 hour adventure game with the kids
- Knackered
- the fluffy hippo and plastic dinosaur banded together with the pirates, attacked the playmobil knights to capture two cannons, with which to defeat the giant sheep
- the fact that i play with whatever happens to be lying around on the floor makes most campaigns turn into monty python

Just a Walk

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Dungeon Crawl Part 1

"Pirates of the CarpetBean - Part 2"

5th adventure Sunday 31 August 2011:

"Pirates of the CarpetBean - Part 2"
- see previous adventure
- They found the queen in a tower, but have to rescue her, I teach them the climbing rules (one body length = one try = need 4 or better on 1D6 otherwise fall for 1 damage roll) They like it and start using each other as ladders
- Queen thanks them: "But now we must find my treasure"
- They all sail together (Dino, Hippo, Princess, Queen), kids automatically assume that each of them will have to let an NPC ride them (coz boat small)
- They get to an island (couch) - climb again
- across the island is a defended wall with 5 pirates
- "Chaaaaaarge!" (will they never learn?)
- Hippo runs ahead, gets hit by a pirate with a bow (=distance attack)
- Nice long battle, Queen does not partake, but  distance weapons (bow & magic missile) lossen it up nicely.
- They win, but have taken quite a beating (both down to 50%)
- After victory, the queen gives them a special prize:
Leveling up:
Each kid gets to choose 1 point which they can improve by 1 (from hitpoints, movement points, number of attacks,  number of damage rolls - should not upgrade defense points because the difference is so extreme)
- Hippo chooses to go from 2 to 3 attacks
- Dino chooses 1 more movement point

Pirates of the CarpetBean - Part 1

5th adventure Sunday 31 July 2011:

"Pirates of the CarpetBean - Part 1"

- Dino & Hippo chilling at home
- The princess/fairy from previous adventure comes
- "Help help" the Pirates have kidnapped my mum and are holding her prisoner somewhere
- They accept
- The living room shaggy carpet is the sea, theyre gonna need a boat = piece of A4 paper
- They have to search the ocean, after every move with the boat they get a "warmer/colder" reading from the princess, depending on whether thy moved closer or not
- Halfway, they get ambushed by a pirate ship - yayy - fight on a boat
- Princess stays at a distance and shoot Magic Missiles. Kids don't even blink - of course she does
- First pirate that gets beaten (me)"falls off the boat into the water ", immediately (kids) "and gets eaten by a shark!!!"
Lesson: Kids make it really hard to keep the blood and gore out of this
- They win, after many many many hints they decide NOT to kill the last pirate with only 1 HP but to ask him to lead them to the Queen
- He does, they find her, end of Part 1
- Kids share one of the bananas for healing (only have one each as a permanent daily power now)
- Kids accept multipart adventure without blinking

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