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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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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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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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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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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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Traveller Hull Points – 2016 but not in 2020
I’m planning to run some Traveller online, either on the Role or Foundry VTTs. Something I have noticed is that in between printings of the core rulebook, the Hull ratings for common starships have been removed. During playtest (all that … Continue reading
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Blade and Spell
In the background I’m writing a new fantasy RPG using the underlying Omni engine, with dollops of ideas from Talislanta 5th, Omega, and the new draft of Godsend Agenda. It’s presently just jottings of ideas and systems to create a … Continue reading
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