Author Archives: First Age

D100 like it’s 1986

I’ve had an old times blast today. Inspired by Che Webster’s Roleplay Rescue Podcast, episode 911, I have gone back to old roots and started to build a Chaosium ‘Basic Roleplaying’ game that feels right to me. I suggest 1986, … Continue reading

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Danger in Highfort Pass

A Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition game set in Kallahn. With the eastern lands of the Kal crumbling to remorseless Kestolian pressure, Haldun, King of Thrail, has commissioned you to uncover a new threat to the north. The pass through … Continue reading

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Talking with Ron Edwards about D&D 4th Edition and Con4eR

 It was great to have the opportunity to talk with Ron Edwards about Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition and the running of the Con4eR online convention. Check out the video link on Ron’s Adept Play site: https://adeptplay.com/seminar/conversation-about-4er We’ll collaborate some … Continue reading

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A D&D 4e Stack Tour

I take a tour of the big stack of books… 

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My First 4e D&D Convention Game

 I’m organising a quick pop up D&D 4th Edition convention online at the moment. I’ve talked about the process and how easy it is to do. There’s been some great play at Con4eR so far and it is heart warming … Continue reading

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Old Friends Returned

 It seems that the process of redrawing the old fantasy map of my youth has brought back old friends and memories of campaigns of long ago, as much legend as reality. Early days with it and a gentle process. I’m … Continue reading

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Homebrew Mappage Project – Kallahn

So, I have brought out my dusty old maps from 35+ years ago of my fantasy campaign world of Kallahn, originally a home for some Chivalry & Sorcery 2nd Edition. I’m not going to claim anything too innovative or amazing, … Continue reading

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Back to the sort of table you can put a pint on

 It was always our student house joke about Logical Positivism. You can’t doubt the existence of the table in front of you, if you can put a pint on it. It was the sort of test that we were sure … Continue reading

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Con4eR

  A D&D 4th Edition Online Convention I seem to have a congenital need to create gaming spaces, to bring people together to play tabletop roleplaying games. There could be have been worse things. My next project is to see … Continue reading

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4e Stat Blocks

Created from Masterplan output to HTML and edited slightly to give me an NPC.  A thing of beauty. 

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