Despite the D&D game not happening currently, I still can’t resist drawing things for it… The Guild of Assessment is the police/investigative organization controlled by the Princeps of the Grey City. Initially intended to be an impartial investigator and judge in mercantile disputes and crimes, the Guild’s purview has expanded since the Grey City fell […] Read more
Played Rogue Trader for the first time last night. It was Peter’s first time ever GMing anything, though frankly I couldn’t really tell during the game. His only problem was an obvious nervousness as to how far his notes would take us into the game. Seeing as we stopped playing at 2:30 AM, I’m thinking […] Read more
Games I played over winter break: Legend of the Five Rings: Dorf ran two sessions of this. We played as Jake Magistrates in the Empire of Rokugan, going around trying to suss out treason while still acting honorably in this pseudo-Japanese society. I had a helluva lot of fun playing a mildly-dishonorable Scorpion-clan asshole with […] Read more
Short version: A while ago there was this, which led to this, and now to this. Long version: The Secret Santicore PDF is finished, courtesy of the apparently-a-genius-at-organizing-spur-of-the-moment-projects Jez Gordon. It’s got forty-two entries on everything from new races to poisons to cults and post-apocalyptic stuff. There are over a hundred pages of […] Read more
The D&D game has gone on a temporary and undetermined length hiatus–half the group wants to keep playing immediately, the other half wants to wait until next quarter before resuming, I don’t know what’s going on so whatever. This means that the only gaming that I’m going to be getting for at least a couple […] Read more
So there’s this thing. Perfect excuse to write something interesting and get something interesting; Secret Santa, but with D&D material. The prompt I got: “I would like alternative randomly generated strongholds to encounter in wilderness hexcrawls (or for setting design). Like the ones in The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures, pages 15 an 16. This […] Read more
Peter (my roommate) is starting up a game of Rogue Trader, which will be played whenever we get a chance/aren’t playing D&D. It’s the first time he’s ever run a game; here’s hoping it’s a good one. We did character and ship creation the other night, which took far longer than I expected (I should […] Read more
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
