Taverns are an almost omni-present part of fantasy gaming and RPGs in particular, whether it be the smoke-shrouded hookah tents of Swords & Sorcery or the more stereotypical wooden building with the jolly innkeeper and buxom serving staff.
Continue readingIn the third episode of our Thousands Lands B/X Essentials, hex-crawl campaign, our heroes press on into the Hoon Hills in search of the hideout of the evil thieves cult The Dark Eye, but they find more than they bargained for when they discover a small village and it’s shining silver guardian.
Continue readingIn this podcast I answer some recent voicemails and chat about our recent session of our B/X Essentials Thousands Lands hex-crawl:
Continue readingListen to this episode of my podcast, The Red Dice Diaries, Episode 67 – Android Revelation https://anchor.fm/the-red-dice-diaries/episodes/Episode-67—Android-Revelation-e34ak7
I chat about a recent SWN session.
In this review I look at Tale: the Roleplaying Game, a fantasy RPG that has recently been successfully kickstarted.
Continue readingI was flicking through my Mewe Groups today and came across a quality Roll20 landing screen by J. K Hepler, it’s shows a wooden table top with some important tables, character tokens and a map on it. This great work inspired me to do something similar for my Zhanor upcoming Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerors of Hyperborea 2E game that I’m starting next weekend.
Continue readingIt seems like today is my day for posting about things faded or disappearing (see my previous post on deleting my Google+ account). If you’ve been keeping up with the various games and actual-plays that I run you may have noticed that there was no session video for my Rose of Westhaven game last week.
This is unfortunately because the game has currently gone on hiatus due to some unexpected scheduling issues with the group, rather than continue the game and try to re-cast I have made the decision to put the game on pause for the moment (although I may revisit it in the future at some point, who knows?)
Continue readingWell it looks like Google+ is finally on it’s last lap of circling the drain before plummeting into the oblivion of poorly supported and research software solutions, with this in mind I’ve gone ahead and deleted my Google+ page. It seemed the logical step given that interaction on the platform has flat-lined following Google’s announcement that they were washing their hands of it.
Unfortunately it seems like making Hangouts crap wasn’t quite enough.
Continue readingIn the second episode of our Thousands Lands B/X Essentials, hex-crawl campaign, the heroes attempt to track down the thieves who stole Silus’ gear, but they may have tumbled onto a deeper conspiracy and long-term grudge with horrible consequences.
Continue readingI’ve used all manner of methods for storing campaign notes for games over the years, from tiddlywikis, to Obsidian Portal, to Bullet Journals, but when I need to jot down some notes quickly during a session I reach for a stack of my faith index cards. The cards are portable, easy to write on, can serve as bookmarks if you need them to and are just all round handy.
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