A new campaign begins! As an experiment, I am running this whole campaign at Level 3. No XP, no leveling up. Also, to create some group cohesion right from the start, I had my players invent a reason for being together and a common goal. All I told them is that they would be going […]
My daughter and I have played a lot of D&D this spring, but somehow we forgot about her solo quest, so today we got back in the saddle! Play time: 1 hour Characters: Rose the Druid (2) Prowling the Woods After rescuing her friend and saving the first Forest Gem, Rose transformed into a wolf […]
I run a 5E campaign, and while I really like to create monsters and combat scenarios for my players, I don’t like dealing with monster stat blocks or adjudicating all the rules and rolls that happen during a combat encounter. Combat should feel exciting! It should feel fast and furious and dangerous! But instead, it […]
A sandbox campaign has no one central story. It’s a basket full of little stories, lots of little opportunities to wander about and do whatever. And the general wisdom seems to be that you start somewhere small, with a big map full of white space, and let the players wander about as they wish, and […]
This last campaign ran for 17 sessions over about 6 months, from level 5 to the end of level 7. We started with 5 players and ended with 6! No one died, though we came close a bunch of times. And we found friends and pets, proteges and mentors, dreams of the past and future, […]
My daughters demanded that we play D&D last night, so I grabbed my homebrew quick-start character sheets and a copy of Desert Angel Fiasco, and we had a fantastic 2-hour game! Heroes: Wreckya the mind-reading Fighter Violet the weather-weaving Beast Master Elise the astral Assassin Introduction The team was hired by Captain Ava to provide […]
The adventure continues! Last time, our heroes climbed up into Castle Torescu, destroyed the Court of the Damned, and defeated the vampire knight Adrian in the snowy courtyard, and now they are surrounded and outnumbered… Play time: 4 hours Heroes: Asmund the Divine Soul Sorcerer (7) Drew the Eldritch Knight (7) Hugo the Time Wizard (6), […]
I don’t like super-heroic gameplay. I prefer more “realistic” danger and challenges. As a real human, I understand the real danger of real things like the dark, and the cold, and hunger, and predators my own size. Dragons and angels and vampires are great in so many ways, as patrons and forces of nature and storytelling […]
The adventure continues! Last time, our heroes made a new friend, discovered the Ruby City of the vampires, defeated a Medusa, freed an Apex Werewolf (and set him loose on said city of vampires), and met a very sexy new NPC… Play time: 4 hours Heroes: Asmund the Divine Soul Sorcerer (7) Drew the Eldritch Knight […]
The adventure continues! Last time, our heroes battled their way across a small creek, discovered an abandoned mining camp infested with angry man-bats, and burgled some potions from an alchemist and her huge manservant in a lonely tower, before escaping into an old mine… Play time: 4 hours Heroes: Asmund the Divine Soul Sorcerer (7) Drew […]