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Ongoing Adventures and the 4eRenaissance
I am starting to get the hang of 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, and where it sits in amongst the other D&Ds and across the fantasy spectrum. It creates and manages the most engaging and intense combat encounters, where entering … Continue reading
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Reflections On Running TTRPG Conventions Online
As our sensors acknowledge that North Star has successfully jumped for another online year, my thoughts have turned to my experiences of running an online tabletop RPG convention. I thought I’d share some of those thoughts here. Creating virtual spaces … Continue reading
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Some Like It Temperate
As enthralled as I am by the Fantasy D20 thing, I have gaming space for other things, and North Star has got me back into space via Traveller, a foundational RPG that I reminisced about last year on the Podcast. … Continue reading
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Soldiers of Fortune
In my continuing excavation of lost treasures, perfectly preserved in digital publishing archives, I have hit a rich seam of 3rd party DnD 4e, including Kobold Press Midgard. The first that I dived into was Soldiers of Fortune, which is … Continue reading
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Into the Feywild
We are heading towards a third of 2021 gone already, as time inexorably marches on with a quick step. On a retrospective at the gaming things that have made me smile, I find that I have been smiling a lot. … Continue reading
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A light brush with physics
Or… back to some Traveller. Back in the day, the Traveller starter set, my introduction to the game, had the most useful starship system travel formulae in the main book, but these have been removed by Mongoose from their versions. … Continue reading
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Wavemaker for campaign and scenario writing
Thanks to my good friend Dom, I have just discovered Wavemaker a great, clean and powerful book writing application. It’s completely free and shows off the Progressive Web Application (PWA) framework really well. In additon to the core writng view … Continue reading
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Dungeons & Delvers – Core Rules
A contemporary dungeon crawler fueled by old school rules, flavor, and aesthetics, lovingly re-imagined and revised. Yes, what I really needed right now was another D&D variant… The most recent version of Dungeons & Delvers has emerged out of … Continue reading
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D20 Cognitive Overload
I sometimes make a rod for my own back; some may even say it is of Deadly Casting. At present I am running three different D20 Fantasy games: True20, D&D 4e and Pathfinder 2e. Each of these games are terrific … Continue reading
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Jumped back In to Traveller
Some playing about with my new Foundry VTT has propelled me into Jumpspace and back to Charted Space, through uncharted technology. North Star will open soon enough. I had been holding off thinking too much about it as I thought … Continue reading
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