Blog for play reports, casual reviews, and DM-facing stuff that would otherwise only ever live in my own head. When I was in high school in the early 2000...
In 1985, eleven years after his resignation, Richard Nixon replaced his Secret Service detail with private security . The year is 1987. The players are a team of robbers from New York who have decided to stick up a bank in the suburbs (Nixon lived in Saddle River, New Jersey for years after his presidency). Their plan is to be in and out in two minutes--like the Stopwatch Gang . Some players will…
I've run the first four sessions of a quasi-open table 1 Dolmenwood campaign. I've been running OSR-ish games for a while and, after starting with Shadowdark, have gravitated more and more in a rules-light direction. For this campaign I'm using a hacked version of the Cairn barebones edition, with gear packages inspired by these ones and very lightweight kindred rules (breggles get free armor and…