The Players- Steve, Tim, Davis, Jonathan, Liz, Dani

We decided to play Witch: The Road to Lindisfarne since it's quite capable of being played with six players. Witchcraft was a very real thing in this run. During the journey to Lindisfarne, it became clear that there was indeed some dark power at work within the group, most of whom seemed convinced of the witch's guilt. She of course denied responsibility. Eventually Sir Thorne revealed himself to be a warlock who was intent on stealing Elouise's power.

It was the warlocks who were responsible for the plague and there turned out to be a group of them living at Lindisfarne. Eventually the group confronted Sir Thorne while Elouise used some of her magic (she was indeed a witch but a good one) to try and prevent any more dark magic from coming out of Lindisfarne. After Sir Thorne had transformed into a dragon, she did too and they fought. He was slain. Ultimately Brother Armond sacrificed himself to give Elouise the power needed to confront the evil within Lindisfarne. Together the rest of them dealt with it and she was revealed to be innocent of causing the plague.

This was the second time I'd played and/or facilitated this game. It was interesting to see how much different this run was. Having witchcraft established to be real early on really informed certain things about our story. Most of the characters had someone who had been or was at least accused of being a witch in their family. It was more light-hearted than you might expect at the end, which was interesting. This came could be much darker in tone.

We all had a good time with it. There were some interesting in character discussions and Tim's decision to have Sir Thorne take on the mantle of the villain/warlock turned out well. We worked together to form a coherent story that was as believable as a story involving witchcraft and dragons can be. :)

It flowed pretty smoothly, none of us seemed to struggle for ideas for scenes. We never actually got to Elouise's Absolution, which worked for our story. I think this game does indeed have replayability. Very simple mechanically and even with six players we finished in a timely fashion. As with last time, we didn't seem to pay much attention to the "tone" for each act but we still had fun.

Thanks to Jonathan, Steve, Tim, Davis, and Liz for being willing to go along with this and the fun.

- Dani, aka Ham