Avalon - Showdown with the Grumpy Mole

As you can see from the home-made battlemap, Korat the Echidna Gladiator has smashed in the stone doors, and the Grumpy Mole's number is up. The Mole himself is hiding behind that pillar (and being represented by a plastic yowie) granting him +4 cover bonus - right up until the party flanks him on either side, and the lizard rogue (represented by the black Frodo mini) sneak attacks the Christ out of him while the Echidna tenderizes him with his flail.

It was actually a bit close for comfort for the PCs, I thought at one stage they were cactus. The Mole softened up the Echidna with a flying molish warhammer as he came thru the door, and the Echidna, who usually rolls crits like he's the star of Oceans 14 or something, kept missing with his crossbow.

In Avalon you know there will be hilarity, and sure enough, the PCs were on their last legs, hacking away at the Mole from either side, and the Lizard managed to fumble, snapping one of his two swords in half on the stone column.

You would do well to admire my Hackmaster GM's screen in the photo, and notice that my battle flaps were flipped over once combat started, to the pant-wetting delight of all involved.

The little bloke playing the Echidna gets a bit excited and rolls dice like he's bowling in test match cricket, which is fine but the dice bounce straight off the table, nearly blinding his brother and then dribbling across the floor in a random direction. SO, I have gathered the materials to make him a dice rolling tower, more on that next post...

I forgot to mention, bottom right you can see the little guy's new Tamagotchi - you can expect to have to stop mid-dinner so he can wipe it's ass, walk it and inject it with steroids. At least it sleeps in.