Home for Thanksgiving break. My friend Dorf wants to run Dogs in the Vineyard. The only thing I’ve heard about this game is that it’s good; knowing nothing more than that, I agree to play. Apparently the PCs are God’s Watchdogs–sort of Mormon-cowboy religious police. While initially disappointed that I won’t be able to rob […] Read more
Do you fear for your life? Do you have a million or so gold lying around? If so, then the best murder deterrence in the world is a simple bronze amulet bought from the Rosharn Vendetta. This trinket represents a promise by the Rosharn that if you are killed, they will hunt down and slay […] Read more
I’m going to talk about horror for a little while, using events from the last session of my D&D campaign as examples. It was the final session before Thanksgiving break, and it was a good one. During it the players broke into the fortified monastery of the Monks of the Ascension and went on a […] Read more
I finally finished a drawing of the party that I’ve been working on. It took a while because I wanted to make sure everyone was satisfied with how I was representing their characters, which meant asking for their opinions multiple times; and since the only time everyone was together and I had my laptop handy […] Read more
The morality of the world is not black-and-white, no matter how much people try to paint it otherwise. There are lots of shades of grey in there, which becomes a problem when dealing with D&D’s alignment system. If a detect evil spell says you’re evil, then you are evil, and have been so condemned by […] Read more
