I’ve been playing a weekly AD&D game, Graveyard of Empires:The Islands of Curabel, for two years next week, and also session 100. We missed two weeks for DM vacation, etc. and one when not enough players showed. 100 represents the number of played sessions. I am the only player who has attended every session, with … Continue reading Wednesday Night AD&D on Roll 20 – Session 100!
John, the DM of the Wednesday night AD&D game I play in on Roll20 has added the first of the players session write-ups with DM commentary. As the player who wrote the first session, I am surprised that my writing reads so well. I edited as I wrote to make sure it was clear. A … Continue reading Wednesday Night AD&D on Roll20- Session Write Ups
I have been part of a weekly Wednesday night AD&D First Edition game via Roll20 and Google Hangouts since March, 2014. With the exception of the DM taking a two week vacation in the summer and two weeks off over Christmas and New Year’s we have met every week. I was late to one session … Continue reading My Wednesday Game
Today is December 31, 2023, in the mid-afternoon. In less than ten hours it will be 2024. 2023 2023 was a good year. But all years are good years. Both good and bad things happen: personally, with friends, and around the world. Happiness is our choice, in spite of what happens. In 2023 I attended … Continue reading Time Rolls On
In this series: Post 2 – Post 3 – Post 4 – Post 5 (Article In Process) I started using Obsidian about a year ago. At first, I was interested in moving my data from other programs into a text format so they would be less likely to be lost to a vendor’s idea of … Continue reading My Journey To Obsidian – Midpoint
I had this idea for a short story. I started it about an hour before the Wednesday night game I play in. This is a first draft with minimal editing for the most grievous typos. I’m curious what you think of it. The youth, slim of build and lean, not yet muscled from long marchings … Continue reading Call To March
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
Companion Podcast: https://anchor.fm/follow-me-and-die/episodes/Episode-198—2021-Year-End-Review-e1ccin5 Companion Vidcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/M9N9a_TGv2c Conventions – Virtual Gary Con, Garage Con in my garage in July, Live Gamehole Con 8, GrandCon was cancelled, I skipped UCon when it went from a physical con to a virtual con. I play in a game every Wed. night on Roll20 and run one Roll20 … Continue reading 2021 Year End Review
Over on the Trilemma Blog, Michael Prescott has a post about the dearth of science fiction games on Roll20. Yesterday’s Five Minute Friday on the Thoughteater podcast by Frothsof touched on the topic. I also called in, so it might get shared on the next Thougheater episode. Goblin’s Henchman mentioned on the Audio Dungeon Discord … Continue reading Getting Started With Science Fiction RPGs
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
