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Will they? I guess that’s hit and miss. People have different tastes, and what suits one fine doesn’t fit others at all. That said… I think many people I started with RPGs...
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Frankly, host it wherever is convenient. I don’t have the convenience of a friendly neighborhood game store, so a living room table might be it. Maybe even mine. We sprang for...
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This is a weird one. I remember totally falling in love with HeroQuest at my best friend’s birthday party in…2nd grade? I already had seen the advertisement for it on TV, but...
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Orkenspalter is one of those fanpages for Das Schwarze Auge that have been around for so long they have become part of the establishment. And I mean this literally, they have a...
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I started back in the day with HeroQuest, that GW/MB boardgame that was basically a stripped down RPG. My first proper RPG was The Dark Eye. It was serviceable. But… I actually...
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My kids, my nieces and nephews, and their friends. I am a bit intimidated by the task, but I already started a few simple games with my 5yo, and he has asked when we will play...
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Here’s an interesting anecdote about the beginnings of roleplaying games in Germany. It’s from an article by Manfred Roth on fantasyguide.de, must have been written around...
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One of the neat little quirks of B/X-style D&D (and by extension Labyrinth Lord which I use most often) is the fact that the four core classes (Fighter, Cleric, Magic-User,...
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I am still here. I was just… uhm… so there’s this global pandemic going on and… well there’s this site called twitter, you might have heard about it. So yes, the last few...
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And there I was, two weeks ago, arguing that a D&D power scale would not transfer well over to something like Star Trek. I just had gotten my wife to watch TNG with me as a...
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Ranger: I don’t like that Castellan. He sounds like a prick. Doesn’t even let us in to meet him. You know who I liked? That hermit in the forest. He was welcoming us into his...
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Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Notes And with this I am current. Session 6 is planned for tonight. Session 5 – 25th of January 2020 Campaign Date: 27th of Goodmonth,...
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So, I have been gamemastering a Keep on the Borderlands campaign. As you might have gathered from a few posts lately. You might also have noticed that I adapted module B2 (Keep...
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The footsteps that you heard – which really ought to be called ‘handsteps’ – belong to three WHEELIES which now roll down the passageway towards you, forcing you back to the...
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Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 This session was the last one before Christmas, and we were down two people again. As one of them was our usual host we met in a different...
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The PCs just murdered nearly all members of a group of bandits in their sleep. Now the last survivor tells them their leader was also among those dead ones on the floor. Druid:...
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This session was a bit more tight- story wise at least. Part of the reason I guess was that we were two people down. Session 3 – 29th of November 2019 Campaign Date: 17th of...
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Last session I got into a talk with one of my players about Dice superstitions, or as I like to call it, Dice Folklore. He didn’t know what I even was talking about. But this...
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I have not actually posted anything about this campaign anymore, despite meeting quite regularly over the last few months. And despite the fact that I have been writing an...
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I guess I should write something about it here, just to document I was there. Because we went there on the last weekend of September. And with we, I mean me, my wife, and our...
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I recently reread the 3.0 Monster Manual entry for the Ethereal Marauder (and afterwards this post by The Alexandrian) and realized that I really like the idea behind this...
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Lately I played the first session of what hopefully will be more in a new Labyrinth Lord game. The players were all from work, although I don’t think I talked to them before we...
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The group was hunting for bounties on Goblins. The gnome ranger scouts a bit too far ahead and manages to find himself behind a group of humanoid guards. The rest of the group...
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JB from B/X Blackrazor lately has been mulling about certifications for DMs. I thought this was cute. He found an old article in Dragon magazine that allowed you to calculate...
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So… it happened. The good times of having my players in the same city came to an end. One of my players just moved to another city in another country. It’s hardly out of the...
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My son is two and a half. There’s some time until I can introduce him to roleplaying games. Right now he’s into puzzles, tractors, and fire engines. I think if I was...
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Adam D’Amato-Neff Writers Club Press 2002 I had a gift card! I had to use the money somehow! And this one was cheap! Don’t look at me like that! Also I bought this 5 years...
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By Jeremy Baker and N. Robin Crossby Kelestia Productions 2007 PDF 35$ (250 pages, large scale map, etc) Venârivè is the larger region Harn is situated in. Previously the...
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Now here’s something interesting: California has banned RPGs. At least the ones that use polyhedrals other than d6s. Or rather, it seems to have banned the possession of...