I had a blast at Gary Con 14. Listen to the companion podcast here. Wednesday I arrived Wednesday about lunchtime and went to The Pub Next Door and had one of the lunch specials – spaghetti. I then made a Walmart run for a couple things I forgot before checking in. My room was about … Continue reading Gary Con 14 – 2022 Recap
For those new to my blog, podcast, and YouTube channel, I wanted to explain where Follow Me, And Die! comes from. Origins Back in the mid 80’s my brother, Robert, started up a new campaign while I was off at my freshman year of college. Over Thanksgiving break, I rolled up a character, Griswald, a … Continue reading Why Follow ME, And Die!
Having write ups of a game session is helpful to keep track of when the party was where, and whom they met, and what they did. I first experienced session summaries, as an official thing players can do to earn XP, in the AD&D [Affiliate Link] campaign, Graveyard of Empires, of over four years of … Continue reading Session summaries
Today I get to unveil a new blog header by +Del Teigeler! Check out his website here. It is so awesome! I really enjoyed getting intermittent updates over the course of this project. I contacted him at about the same time I asked Satine Phoenix to do a new header and avatar for my online presence. … Continue reading New Blog Header by Del Teigeler
I have the distinction of being the subject for the first episode of the third season of Tell Me About Your Character (TMAYC). TMAYC is an interview style podcast where +Steve Keller asks the right questions to get the context to help people share why their favorite character is their favorite. I interviewed Steve about TMAYC … Continue reading Tell Me About Your Character – I Was Interviewed
I’m super exited to share my new blog banners and icon/avatar by the talented +Satine Phoenix. She gave me two versions of each, so I’ll have to put them on rotation, since I can’t decide which I like better. I really like how the image of the avatar is like an arrow pointing to the … Continue reading New Art For the Blog by Satine Phoenix
Flip the switch and check all my sites! You can find me online wherever you see my social media avatar. The guy with the wolf’s head shield. -OR- Google+: Follow Me, And Die! / Larry HamiltonThe above links are to Internet Archive pages for historical reference. With the demise of G+, you can find … Continue reading Social
Back in college, one of my room mates was DM for an established group. I was allowed to play and run a “version” of my character from my Brother Robert’s game. I couldn’t take the XP from his game and then add more XP from my brother’s game. He ruled that Griswald showed up by … Continue reading An Example Of Creative Spell Use
In yesterday’s post on my spell slot tracker idea of a printed sheet with spaces to write information about spells and put in a sheet protector, I mentioned another idea. This is something I came up with to speed up tracking all the followers and mercenaries Griswald has. I divided them into units of ten, … Continue reading Troop/Horde Tracker
I have written a lot on this blog about my favorite character, Griswald, from my brother Robert’s campaign. Griswald is a half elf Fighter/Cleric/Magic-User. As a character with two spell classes, it grew harder to track spells, levels, and details of each spell, so I came up with this simple, old school solution. Lots of … Continue reading Spell Slot Tracker For AD&D
