I was told to share stories to the forum, so here goes.
Practice 1: We settled on our characters, starting levels, and what kind of story we'd play. Our group consists of an Eater of Eyes Ulfhednar, a Wolfen Ulfhednar, a Skald, a Maiden of Ratatosk, and a Galdr. Made some house rules, agreed to a wound track difficulty setting, and ran a one shot practice session. Starting in the Mead hall of the local Jarl (our Galdr because rune draw), our skald (a town guard) dunks himself into a barrel of Mead and downs half of it, while our Jarl cheers him on. Our Maiden (a hermit) sits alone in a corner, drinking the round of mead the Jarl bought for everyone. Our EoE Ulf (the Jarl's Karl because rune draw) watches in abject horror as a ridiculously drunk Skald guard belches so hard he shatters a window. The Jarl gets him a tonic to sober him up, causing him to projectile vomit into a bucket so hard that it pushes through the slats, making a fine Mist fly out of the back end. The Jarl goes outside to inspect his frozen village, and grabs our party to help him clean up some of the frozen dead and have a funeral for them. During the funeral, a warrior runs in, bleeding, badly injured, and informs them of a small wolf pack that decimated their band. He was a sole survivor, and barely made it out alive. The warband decides to investigate, and they are ambushed by 3 Ulfhedin. After a few short moments, and a flaming whip of death from the Galdr, all three Ulfhedin lay dead at their feet. They returned home and celebrated their victory.
This was really our session to get familiar with abilities, see if we wanted to modify and mechanics, etc. We made some slight changes, like moving cleanup to the beginning of each players turn, instead of at the end of the combat round (flow just felt better). Otherwise it was a lot of flipping through the book to figure shit out.
_________________ Wise in measure let each man be, but let him not wax too wise; for never the happiest of men is he who knows much of many things.
The Hávamál, verse 54
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