Tag: dungeons-and-dragons
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Thirty-Three. Jasper: Sea Wall
I wasn’t normally someone who got seasick. The coast near Shrain, though, was hostile and intent on breaking me of that delusion. It had seemed routine, friendly, even. The rain was slow, steady at first, but in minutes turned to waves of water to mimic the waves beneath the ship. The ship rolled and bobbed…
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Thirty-Two. Ivo: Darkwell
Our shadows seemed weighed down by foreboding events, so we decided to cast them off by stopping in Byhre on our way. We stopped in the apartment for some much appreciated time in luxury, without our packs on our shoulders, or someone else watching us. It was raining, of course, but it had stopped briefly…
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Thirty-One. Sasha: Eternal
I recalled the first night on the road because my dreams weren’t nightmares. Usually, there and back on the Soot Road, even if we were camping off the side of the road, nights regularly featured tossing and turning, our minds polluted by abstract, half-remembered shapes that we only knew enough that they woke us up…
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Lessons from Collaboration 2: Mysteries
In case you missed the last post, this is a sequence of excerpts from conversations I had with a friend who wanted help and inspiration to create their first adventure. I’ve sampled the pieces that are the most useful, and added a few post-thoughts of my own. Talking about puzzles last time got me talking…
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Fictional Science 2
Hello again, I checked the clock last night and realized I needed to go to sleep immediately, even though I forgot to post on Sunday. I think it might have been because I got to do another test run of my game system, so I was pretty out of gas and running catch up the…
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A Look Behind the Screen: Lessons from Collaboration
Last week I had the unexpected pleasure of helping one of my friends plan their first original one-shot D&D adventure. Unexpected for me as it was, I also surprised myself at my own excitement and resources I have pooled over the years that might be helpful to rookie DMs. I did end up writing a…
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Fictional Science
If you’ve GMed for some length of time, you might have had the experience of PCs going to a library looking for information. When they try to search for specific terms or topics, it can be extremely frustrating when you come up with a pool of books, only for them to say that they’re curious…
Goblin Brains 