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Monday, March 18, 2024

Osr anchorites?

 It's been a long time since I listened to any osr podcasts.  Anchor was a lot of fun.  I'm not sure if the community is still going?  I deleted the app as it was super buggy for recording.  I have released a few podcasts in the last year but they were mostly rambling.

I miss the community it was a lot of fun honestly.


Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Session 0

 Started a new game on Saturday.  I actually went thru a did as much of a session 0 as I could.  We created some characters and ate a bunch of food.

I decided on creating my own campaign world, so I can break it if I want to.

Character wise we ended up with a dwarf barbarian, a Elven archer (fighter), a wild whatever sorcerer with crazy high charisma, and a dwarven ranger .

I decided on 4d6 drop the lowest.  The sorcerer somehow managed to roll an 18 and ended up with a charisma of 20.  At first level.  Gotta love 5e hahaha.

First adventure I'm going to run is murder mystery which I'm excited about.

I'm honestly very excited about this game.  The plan is to be super chill and have one shot type sessions.  

I found a pile of great free 5e adventures I'm mining for content.

The sorcerer decided on a human noble background.  Since it's a points of light campaign and there are no real rulers or big cities we decided she was from the ruins of a city.  She had to flee as it was being destroyed.

The dwarven ranger is from runeholme, the dwarven city.  The barbarian is an outlander from a barbarian tribe.

The elf is from a small forest clan that spends a lot of time researching lore etc.  she travelled to a different forest to learn from warrior elves.

Some good world building honestly.  At one point I was asked a question and before being able to answer the player made up something.  And then asked if it was okay?  Yes absolutely, please add whatever you like to my world.


Monday, February 26, 2024

Repost: this isn't dnd anymore

 https://www.realmbuilderguy.com/2024/02/this-isnt-d-anymore.html?m=1

Good article and I agree.  

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Points of light


 As mentioned in the previous post, I'm prepping a small campaign.  


https://3toadstools.blogspot.com/2024/02/getting-back-to-gaming-finally.html?m=1

Likely be levels 1-6.  Instead of using netnir vale and the dawn of war gods I decided to go all in on creating my own spot.  

I'm going to use these gods

https://3toadstools.blogspot.com/2015/04/12-gods.html?m=1

A few of these locations have cropped up in other games I've ran or prepped.  

Long tooth I drew up and stated a while ago for the nightwell barony, however I'm stealing my buddy Vance's version of the townsfolk here.

https://leicestersramble.blogspot.com/2020/12/taking-rest-stop-at-longtooth.html?m=1

Cape night and the barony could still technically be a thing the way they were originally placed on the night well barony map, however it's now a dead ruin.

https://3toadstools.blogspot.com/2020/07/cape-nightwell-pt-1.html?m=1

Actually maybe not because I stole some names And moved them around the map.

I'm still planning on doing a wayfarers league and short adventures.  I'm going to use Jeff's campaign questions and the my campaign document from Matt coleville to flesh it out a bit.

https://jrients.blogspot.com/2011/04/twenty-quick-questions-for-your.html?m=1

https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/my_campaign/

This still seems like a fun idea.  Maybe one day.

https://3toadstools.blogspot.com/2015/09/there-comes-time-when-everybody-needs.html?m=1



Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Getting back to gaming finally

 My Dad is finally getting taken care of by professionals.  It was a very long ten months.  Now that I have a bit of time to breath, think, sort of relax I've been slowly coming up with some gaming ideas.

I jumped in on my buddy Jeff capes becmi game last Friday, and it was fantastic.  My friend Jeremy from work is playing as well.  He did a great British isles accent thru the game.  I decided to be a extremely talkitive thief, to the point where I barely breathe when speaking.  I'm looking forward to our bi weekly games.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to run ghosts of saltmarsh for my cousin's.  I've decided to fuck it.  We will likely only be playing once a month.  Trying to incorporate a fairly convoluted plot into four hours a month just doesn't seem do able for me.

What I have figured out is something a little bit more "drop in friendly".  The characters are part of a newly formed adventurers guild called the "falkcrest wayfarers league". The patron is a curmudgeonly elf named Hazzar.  He will send them on random 2 to 3 hour missions in the netnir vale.

I may also run this same campaign online for random people on Thursday afternoons, roll20. 

This is a bit easier to manage.

I have found a pile of great free 5e adventures that I'm going to incorporate into this points of light campaign (is points of light trademarked?).

We are going to use the basic 5e rules only or this, and the dawn of war deities.

Should be fun.

I will put up some play reports as time goes on.  It is interesting not having a big bad.  

Further after Jeff's campaign I intend to run a couple of games of gamma world 1e for the group.  I've got a few silly ideas which should be fun.

It's nice to be back after a terrible year.


Sunday, December 31, 2023

Year end

I can't quite believe the year is over.  It was very difficult year to be honest. I'm thankful.

I didn't have much of a chance to play games this year.  It started out with a bang playing with Steve and the rest of the Canadian crew.  

My schedule changed and my Dad moved in with us which basically stopped most gaming.

I spent most of the rest of the year helping my dad and dealing with all the things.  I basically put off working on anything, playing games and guitar.

I'm currently prepping to play 5e again with my cousins.  We are going to have a session 0 and get going soon.  I intend to just use the essential rules.  The phb is just too much for new players.

As I mentioned in the previous post I wrote a supplement for basic fantasy.  

I am hoping to spend more time working on the basic fantasy project.  

Happy new year everyone.


Friday, December 1, 2023

Woodland races playtest

 https://basicfantasy.org/showcase.cgi

I created some playable races for bfrpg.  You can check them out on the showcase page.

These are all races like skunks, bears, voles etc.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Also download the new fourth edition of bfrpg while you are there!

I'm currently enjoying the black apple brugh module.  Likely going to incorporate it soon.  Got a cool vibe.