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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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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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Will it be another F20 Year?
Last year’s gaming stats confirmed a dominent display of D20 fantasy games of various hues had been played and GM’d. I suppose that a year with the numeric 2020 really should see the d20 predominent, though really I should be … Continue reading
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First time D&D4e DM
Well, 12 years too late (it’s never too late), I am now a 4e D&D DM, having run my first session last night on the Role VTT with a great group of players. If you are only counting official D&D … Continue reading
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D&D 4e Countdown
With less than a week to go before we start our D&D4e game set in the Nentir Vale, the Discord chat channel is now full of posts about characters and forging a team of heroes to right the wrongs and … Continue reading
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Preparing for my first 4e Game
I’m new to 4e and thought I’d share the things I’m doing to get started with a 4e game, inhabiting as I do, a 2021 time-frame, rather than late 2000s. This grants me some hindsight advantages and gives me some … Continue reading
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