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Gods of the Forbidden North
I trust you have all recovered from your Black Friday / Cyber Monday purchases? There did seem to be some real bargains for RPG PDFs and books, and I picked up a few. Although I have plans for both Symbaroum’s … Continue reading
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The Diamond in the Rough
This is the one that almost got away. I have to go back to October 2020 for the end of the Kickstarter campaign for Here Be Dragon’s ‘Monte Cook’s Diamond Throne. In that dim, dark plague epoch, I was in the … Continue reading
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Fabled
Fabled is another VTT that’s Kickstarting, which ticks all of my boxes, probably… Slickly marketed, this is an all in one integrated experience, which promises, if you can find it tucked away with dice skins and roll effects, the Holy … Continue reading
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Sample Dungeon
My game pitch for Grogmeet 2025… Sample Dungeon AKA The Ruined Tower of Zenopus A century ago the sorcerer Zenopus built a tower on the low hills overlooking Portown. The tower was close to the sea cliff west of the … Continue reading
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Game Planning for 2025
Fun times planning the games that I might run in 2025. The list is always a malleable soup of ideas, prone to fickle change, but the process of coalescing to an actual game is an imaginationscape(TM) all of its own. … Continue reading
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LongCon 2024
It has been a joy to bring back LongCon, a convention formatted for tabletop roleplaying games that last the full weekend. We have just had a great weekend with games that have had the room to breathe, exploring a full … Continue reading
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State of Play – June 2024
With the first half of 2024 in the rear view mirror, I thought I’d take a peek as to how my own ttrpg play is going. 81 sessions. As is customary there are a few stand out campaign games, with … Continue reading
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A Return to Role VTT and Streaming Settings
With Role VTT bringing back cameras, and making some progress on their integration with Owlbear Rodeo, for maps and tokens, I have made a return to use the platform in my own gaming. There is now a subscription for the … Continue reading
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RPG Actual Play – a YouTube Streaming Test
I’m not a big watcher of live stream RPGs, but I do participate in a channel full of great games that are routinely streamed. The Dungeon Musings channel is an unpretentious ‘fourth wall’ channel, of gamers simply playing lots of … Continue reading
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Keltia – a return to Arthur
I still wonder at the games that never made it to actual play. With more time on my hands I am looking to make that right, ad as i find it difficult to let any of them go, I … Continue reading
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