Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
Card cheat. Drunk. Scoundrel. Murderer. This is the reputation that precedes you. You were an obedient son and diligent apprentice earning esteem and an important assignment to a key border defense posting. Your parents were very proud and you were very bored. The problem with being a battle wizard in an impregnable fortress is that …
Continue reading Pre-gens for Redemption at Gary Con #4: The Wizard
A decade ago, you went to the river to get water for your mother. As you dipped the buckets into the clear water, you heard screaming coming from your village. When you ran back to see what was the trouble, you saw men in Imperial uniforms slaughtering the people of your village. It seems that …
Continue reading Pre-gens for Redemption at Gary Con #3: The Apprentice
You are a master of the sword. You have traveled the lands seeking out the greatest teachers and the greatest opponents. You have won every duel you have fought and now none will face you. Your obsession with the blade has cost you. You have set aside your position and place of honor at the …
Continue reading Pre-Gens for Redemption at Gary Con #2: The Swordmaster
This year at Gary Con, I am trying a different approach to presenting pre-generated characters to players. My typical method is to flop a pile of pre-gens down in the middle of the table and let the players pick through to find what they want to play. This year, I'm going to present the characters …
Continue reading Pre-Generated Characters for Redemption- The Leader
All the conventions I've been to allow players to join games that were not filled during the event scheduling. It's nice, as a game master, to show up at your game knowing that you will have a full table of gamers to play with. I have had to admit defeat when a game of mine …
I like to write adventures just for convention play. These are games that I am probably not going to run as part of my campaign. Every now and again I throw a convention game into a campaign but for the most part these are unique events. Part of the fun of a convention, for me, …
The new year is upon us and many game conventions are into their cycle of planning and scheduling. This is the first in a series of posts about running games at conventions. I've run and played games at many conventions over the last decade or so and have some lessons I've learned from old hands …
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