Tokyo DnD notes

Session 3 recap - Calendar dates - 5th of Springwane, left Voltaine. 15th - Arrived at the Mountains of Peril. 19th - Arrived at Grizdak. Downtime - Moradin and Ousk - Went and did some crimes. They were mildly successful and also saw that there is quite the rival, to the point of animosity, between …

A cool mapping idea for your hexcrawl notes.

So I was watching THIS channel today and I saw a very cool way to take notes for your hexcrawl. This is my route for my solo game. This amount of travel and adventure has taken 31 in game days. So Springrise 31st would be the date. I think it really helps to visualise where …

Basic Fantasy, OSR and solo play.

I have been quite interested in the OSR scene for a while now. The main interest I have had is this divide, nearly a tribal feel, of 'old school vs 'new school' and what that entails. So seeing as getting groups together to play RPGs is a trial in itself, solo it is. Basic Fantasy …

New campaign, new map!

Yesterday we had our session 0 / 1 all combined together. It went well. Of course, one of the hardest things about GMing is giving yourself credit for doing a good job. Always things I would like to have done better. One thing that did go well without a doubt is the world building. We …

Sibilia the Hunter – An Ironsworn actual play – Chapter 6

For this addition I have decided to post a direct transcript of a play session. I will look through my other chapters to see if there are other entries that are good as they are. Yes, the effort involved to change it all into a narrative (and more readable) form are a large factor in …

Forbidden Lands – Trying out the solo rules

The recent release of the Bloodmarch and Book of Beasts had me excited about two things mainly. The first was monsters with with even and encounter ideas attached. I felt these would be great as one session, monster hunter type scenarios. The other was the official solo rules released by Forbidden Lands. I have become …

Prep for a game can be better than the game itself.

While I hope the title doesn't ring true, the main point is that a new DnD 5e game is upcoming with my old North American Burning Wheel mates. We will set the game on the other side of the world to our 2 year long Burning Wheel game and have some loose connections to that …

RPG so far this year.

This year has really just been about playing one on one games with my son. We have played around 6 or 7 sessions of the Mausritter hexcrawl I posted at the end of the last post. My wife even played which was a great fun session and she brought different energy and role playing ideas …

Death saves in Dungeons and Dragons 5E

I have recently been watching Questing Beasts Q&A sessions with various DMs and game designers and a conversation about hit points, death saving throws and death at 0 hit points got me thinking. The series is well worth watching and here is the LINK to the video. A quick summary They talked about the benefits …

Ironsworn – Sibillia’s Story – Chapter 3 – Tomb Raiding

NOTE: I probably should have edited again, but was too excited to get some writing done and put on the website. Sorry for the extensive use of 'I'. Hope you enjoy the continuation of Sibilia's story - an Ironsworn fan fiction. The chill water became a turbulent mess underneath the pounding waterfall. Directions were hard …