A place to think aloud....
It is gentle in its caress. It tells me that it is a friend, and has been with me for many years. It is gentle in its caress. It whispers to me, and asks me to let in its cold. It is gentle in its caress. It urges me to sleep, I will soon forget the harsh light of day. It is gentle in its caress. It brings quiet to the one within, even as she bellows and thrashes in the deep. It is gentle in its…
In my great wisdom and originality I am here to present you fine readers with my thoughts on a year of tabletop gaming. This has been a pretty wild year for me on that front, it's been quite some time since I've played in and run so many games, and it's been very fun to get back into it. I'll start with the games I've run and follow up with those I've played. Games I've Run Aryngrave Ah Aryngrave,…
Since January I have had the pleasure of playing in Sahh's campaign following the adventure of a woman named Hilt, and last month this campaign came to an end. This was a pretty incredible experience for me, representing the first long-form OSR campaign I've played in, and what a journey it was. Hilt, a Fighter cursed with an arm that tried to kill her and bound by a promise to Saint Gacis to seal…
Hopping on this little bandwagon put forward by Marcia B to talk about the things that inspire our RPG campaigns. When it comes to taking inspiration from media, I tend to look at approaches to world or game elements, themes or certain expressions of them, and motifs that appear throughout. Occasionally I'll pull on certain structures of events or in-fiction cultures, religions, factions etc, but…
Recently my first Old-School campaign came to a close, rather sooner than intended but alas, that is the way of things sometimes. In all we played around 12 sessions over the course of a few months, and I wanted to talk a bit about what I learned over the course of running the game. The first thing I learned is I need less than I thought. This is common advice you hear across TTRPGs in general,…
Characters Present Aenwas - Level 1 Elf Waylon J Smithers Jr - Level 2 Specialist Hilt - Level 4 Fighter The Events Day 6 - Night After leaving the mouth of the cave we set up camp under a cliff overhang to try and keep the worst of the persistent rain off of us. Given we were all cold and soaked through we decided to spend an extra watch resting that night so we could all warm up a bit. Things…
Here we are again! This group has switched days to something the players can generally do more consistently and now play weekly rather than fortnightly. Hopefully this helps us have games more consistently! Strap in folks, this one was a doozy. The Characters Ico - Cleric of the Court of Rot seeking to guide the Northern Sanction through this time of decay. Owena - A Fighter with high-minded…
Session 3! This time with our full group of players, ready to look doom square in the face. Characters Present Grigori - Level 1 Magic-User Hilt - Level 4 Fighter Lucia - Level 1 Fighter Waylon J Smithers Jr - Level 1 Specialist\ The Events Day 5 We picked up right from where we left off, with the sun rising over our camp as we prepared to face almost-certain death at the hands of skeletons.…
This has taken a while to come about, but we got there. Between me having awkwardly timed migraines and others being busy it's been hard to get this group together for a second session, but it finally came together this past Saturday. I'd planned on doing play reports for my other group I'm running this setting for but they weren't amenable to it, so there'll only be posts about this one group.…
The Misery spreads across the land, its vile claws rending earth, sky, and soul alike. When it comes to fiction, I've always had a taste for fantasy, and within that I've tended towards books that present a world which is dark and weird, but grounded. Some of my favourites being Joe Abercrombie's First Law, Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings, and Steven Erikson's Malazan: Book of the Fallen. Yes…