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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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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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