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 …

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 …

Scum and Villainy session #1

So after playing a two session game of Microscope, then spending the equivalent of a session building out locations and factions (this was actually really fun and helped endlessly from our Microscope game), we played our first session of Scum and Villainy. It was really fun, with teething problems. The teething problems were mainly that …

Humblewood – important traits your characters would know.

Session 2 Alderheart - The great tree city The center of civic life and government in the wood is the city of Alderheart. It is a giant tree which shades out the forest for over two kilometers. All manner of goods and people, both birdfolk and humblefolk, can be found living together here. It is …

Personal Quest XP idea (draft)

Quest XP Deadly encounter of highest level character for the party. XP bonanza and leveling up is sweet. 2 quests at a time (maybe) - We can decide as a party what constitutes a 'quest'. We can detail quests in a quest log, you can choose which quest or party goal you wish to pursue …

Hexcrawl Procedure

Resources - Adventurers have a D8 (D12 if they prepared) die of food and water. They must roll each type each day to see if they use up their food (on a roll of a 1 or 2 - reduce one die size). When you buy food, you can buy it in single die quantities …

Villain Actions – Thank you Matt Colville

Villain actions are such a great idea. I have DM'd 5E for around five years now and have only recently run a monster with Legendary Actions. Yes, it has taken me way too long. It became instantly apparent that a single monster absolutely needs actions it can take outside of its turn to compete with …

Hexcrawl update: Some thoughts and notes.

So the hexcrawl is well underway and it is fantastic. This post will be a collection of thoughts I've had regarding the style. Campaign Notes The first thing of interest is that I have begun to use One Note for the campaign notes. Google docs was good to begin with but I have quickly realised …

Hexcrawl Incoming?

So I have been reading extensively about Hexcrawling recently. It seems like a method of play which you can still find aspects of in the DMG (watches, overland travel) but is not fleshed out at all. I have read up on the Alexandrian, watched Web DM, Matt Colville and Bardic College YouTube vids, read various …