Dragon Hunt

Apologies for the recent dearth of posts.  It has been - and continues to be - a busy time.  That said, I do have a fair few game reports still to present, starting off with this Challenges and Adventures role playing game run at the Sheffield Club by John on 23rd September(!)

As usual, we the payers represented a group of retired soldiers summoned by the local governor to undertake a mission.

 This time out patron was none other then the Prince of Wales - seen here with his hangers-on.  We were to find out why a mine in Wales had suddenly ceased production.  Communications from the nearby village has also ceased.

 Here we are at the entrance to the mine chatting to the dwarven inmates.  There emerged talk of dragons in the vicinity.  But that couldn't be true.....could it?

 Apparently it could.  We encountered this bugger en route to the village.  This was a dodgy rubbery-plastic toy I had picked up in a batch of toys earlier this year and passed on to John.  But when you're only 25mm tall and made from low melting point metal it looks pretty damn scary!

 While we were having a nice chat (did I tell you i speak a few words of Dragon?) about it's missing baby dragon...

 ...it's mate appeared.  Time to head off to the village.

 There we were welcomed by the Postmaster who doubled as innkeper.

 Long story short - one of the local shops was selling very popular ice cream and the shopkeeper's nubile daughter had a new pet.  The pet of course, turned out to be the baby dragon who had become addicted to the ice cream.  We soon returned the dragonette to Mum and Dad, the mine reopened and all was well.  Off home then for tea and medals, and hopefully a huge reward from the Prince.

Find the Lady

This was a role-playing game run by John Armatys using his streamlined version of Tom Mouat's Challenges and Adventures system (think basic old D&D only a lot slicker).  Our party was dispatched to the provincial governor's lady friend from the castle in a town quarantined die to plague.
Above is the castle itself - the scruffiest of my trio of Elastolin-style structures.

The prov gov and hangers-on.  The nuns were there as they had the inside track on happenings in the town.

The map of the town.  Actually it looked a lot like Scarborough...

We sneaked along the beach by night, prior to scaling the cliffs...

...and arriving at the castle.

Our resident sneaky type then nipped over the wall and passed down a rope.

The garrison had destroyed the drawbridge to stop the disease-ridden locals from gaining entry.

The first chamber we tried was, of course, the wrong one.  Having woken the garrison commander a certain amount of magic was employed to shut him up.

The next set of rooms was more promising, though our cleric was set upon by the lady's maid.

Ouch!  With that sort of dice roll I think we can guess where she hit him!

Eventually we were able to extract ourselves, along with lady, maid and lady's large dog!  Thence it was off back to the prov gov for thanks and rewards.

The CaA system uses cards rather than the much-scribbled on character sheets of old.

The cleric tries for a quiet moment alone with the maid - but there's that bloody dog again!