I'm a fledgling TTRPG writer realizing I basically know nothing about making RPGs. Or writing. Join me on my adventure as I grow and learn. Odds are I'll...
Hello Friends. Welcome back to my rambling. Stop me if you've heard this one. You're starting a new hobby or project and are super excited. So, in your manic state you go on a shopping spree buying everything you need to get started. Then, you start doing the hobby, you're enjoying yourself, and want to learn even more about it. Then, inevitably, you come across a treasure trove of DIY things you…
Hello Fellow Travelers! It's time for another update on how my game is coming along. In the past weeks I've definitely done more TTRPG research. I've been reading the Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide (2024) in preparation to starting a D&D campaign for my kids, ran another session of Land of Eem , and had my last session of the adventure of Daggerheart I was participating in. With this…
Well, in my quest to learn more about creating TTRPGs something miraculous has happened. I've started actually playing TTRPGs! I mentioned in my last blost that I had played Daggerheart for the first time and the GM of that game inspired me. Well, since then my basement has been put back together finally from the flooding we had back in August, and we've brought out our table that was down there…
Last night I had the pleasure of joining a beginners game of Daggerheart . Aside from having a lot of fun and stretching my TTRPG skills (which are VERY lacking still), one thing that truly impressed me was how deeply the Game Master (GM) had knowledge of the realm. He was a master story teller, and had deep knowledge of the lore/realm the game was taking place in, as well as everything about each…
Well hello there. Happy new year! I hope you had a happy holiday season. And if not, let's pretend you did anyway. I recently came into a new to me laptop from work, which I finally took the time to set up how I want it to be, which included syncing my documents over. Between that, reading the core rule book for The Land of Eem , having motivation to write, and having some downtime today I…
Why hello there strangers! Long time no write. I'm sure most of you forgot I had a blog. Heck, I forgot I had a blog! Seeing people post their "year end blogs" today reminded me that it has been quite some time since I've posted. I wish I could say there's been significant progress on my TTRPG. But alas, there has not been. Not for a lack of interest, but because life got in the way. See, the last…
Hello fellow adventurers. It is I, here again to assault your eyeballs with a progress report. You see, upon thinking about how much joy my son's version of D&D brings him I got to realizing the main difference between us (beyond age). My imagination is stifled because over the years I let the world tell me what can and can't be done. I put guardrails around my imagination to shelter myself from…
Welcome one and all in today's ramblings on my meandering road to making my TTRPG. Over the weekend my kids went over to my mom's house for their weekly "play at grammy's and get as much junk food as we ask for" time. My youngest brought along a game he made over Christmastime last year while we were traveling to Germany for the holiday. The game he made? His own spin on Dungeons and Dragons. Not…
I'm finding myself slipping into old creative habits. One that dies hard (see what I did with that title?) While this sounds like actual progress, let me tell you why this is bad. It's the habit of my brain getting in the way. The habit of not developing an idea beyond, well, an idea. I've made zero progress on developing my TTRPG idea beyond the brief, half-page idea I came up with this summer.…
Hello screen-bound friends! Welcome to my free-form, barely edited update on my project. (TL;DR I haven't done much as far as writing). The waxing and waning pendulum of working on my RPG has swung back to waxing. At least I think that might be the productivity/moving forward part, I've never been clear on that. I have found a few podcasts and youtubers who focus on TTRPG creation which have been…