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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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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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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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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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