Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
The Dweller in the Forbidden City blog posted about a Twitter poll they did on the question of colonialism in D&D. Here is a snip. The author seems to be surprised by the amount of vitriol they received as a result of this poll question. I don't find it surprising. The way this poll was …
Continue reading Colonialism is Not the Core Theme of Dungeons & Dragons
The Kompanions left the watch tower where they were ambushed and headed off to the fortress that the Githzerai were attempting to restore. The remainder of the Githzerai had come back to the construction site, grabbed their stuff and their slaves and ran back to their redoubt on the plane of Limbo. Akbar and the …
Continue reading Inter-dimensional Heist Planning:Game Report #23
The Kompanions had to deal with Zoran's lake monster or the trade on the Silver River, and their major income stream, would dry up. Akbar polymorphed himself into an eel and sought out the monster. He learned that the beast lingered in the deepest parts of the lake consuming schools of land locked salmon. It …
I want to bring your attention to this excellent post by Justin at The Alexandrian. Justin brilliantly describes something he calls "Description on Demand." This practice is when a player is given control over parts of the game world other than their character. In a conventional RPG, this is a game master technique where instead …
Rexor, Stilgar and Einar spent a few days relaxing at the villa in Nightside. Meanwhile, Akbar helped the Kompanions co-conspirator, Mirko, get a handle on Whitemist and sweep away any opposition to his rule. They spent the better part of a week together seeking out and destroying the last remnants of Zoran's soldiery and assistants …
Rexor, Stilgar and their henchman Einar (the reluctant fisherman) were back in Nightside having escaped the bedlam caused by their assassination of the vivimancer Zoran. Rexor was sad that the Kompanions had killed the fellow but believes it was a necessary task for the good of the realm. Having taken some severe beatings from Zoran's …
I received Rocketbook Beacons from my wife as a birthday gift this year. I hadn't used them very much until my game group moved our games to Skype a few months back. Recently I've been using them more and more. It's a great tool and I'll show you a bit of how I'm using them. …
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