Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
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
The Kompanions scheduled a meeting, a parley if you will with Lord Willem, de facto king of all the lands east of the Silver river. It was decided that they would talk, maybe, but they would mostly prepare to ambush and murder him. The Kompanions flew on their roc to the Fortress of the Hall …
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
Pompous Maximus, terror of goblins, caught up to his friends in the undercity of Nightside to tell them there was a complication on the raids he had been conducting against Silverside. Willem, one of their rivals, showed up with his entire army to convince Silverside that it's best chance of survival was to come under …
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 …
These game reports are getting longer, not shorter. I think I'll just call them "game reports." The Kompanions of Kalador, having dispatched a grell in exchange for passage through the lair of the Corrupted Ones, descended a short stair to a landing and an intersection. There was a spiral staircase at the end of …
What is a role-playing game? Can't we just go with Potter Stewart's definition of obscenity, "I know it when I see it?" We could and, for most purposes, that definition would be fine. If we are going to design games or adventures for other people, then we need to go a step further. We need …
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