I attended all four days of the expanded Gamehole Con. This year, expansion to a 4 day convention that started on Thursday night was a test. As I arrived to pick up my badge and tickets, I saw Alex Kammer out front. I greeted him and he was trying to work out what was the … Continue reading Gamehole 2017 Recap
Yesterday I uploaded a YouTube video on the death of the character in my weekly Wednesday night AD&D game I play in on Roll20. You can read the other posts I have about the game here. There is a companion video to this article here. One of the other players in the game commented on … Continue reading Thoughts on Character Death
Frank Mentzer was talking about this at Gary Con 9, and said he hoped to Kickstart in a couple of months. Obviously, things of this scale take a bit longer. Frank has a letter from Gary Gygax giving permission to include his campaign in the Greyhawk setting. Frank makes clear in the comments on the … Continue reading Announcement From Frank Mentzer
I won’t do a full session recap here. One instance from the first session of my AD&D campaign on Roll20 stands out to me. I touched on it in my last post. I have written about some of my ideas for building this new area of my game world, as I pointed to in my … Continue reading My AD&D Campaign on Roll20 – Session 1
I stumbled on a conversation over on Twitter about World Building between @SlyFlourish, @NewbieDM, @Chgowiz, @Bartoneus, @DnDJester, and others. It ranged between no world building/it’s a waste of time all the way to being an integral part of the game. In the course of writing this article, I reached two conclusions: Every GM is a … Continue reading How Much World Building?
Tonight is session 147 of the Wednesday night AD&D game I play in on Roll20. We’re into our third year on the calendar too! This will be the last game in my streak of not missing a game, as I will be at Gary Con 9 next week. I’m the only player to have played … Continue reading 147 Consecutive Sessions
Delving Deeper – I started a Delving Deeper campaign, Delvers’ Deep, on Roll20 on September 12, 2019, meeting every Thursday night. It is a drop-in/drop-out hexcrawl/dungeoncrawl sandbox. I’m running the megadungeon I’ve always wanted. Not quite exactly what I imagined, but it’s definitely scratching that itch. [On Hiatus] I talked about it on my podcast … Continue reading Running
AD&D 1st Edition [Affiliate Link] [WRAPPED] Here is my write up of the conclusion of the Weekly Wednesday night AD&D game on Roll20. [Hiatus] I play in a second AD&D Campaign on Sundays, ran by a player from the weekly Wednesday night game. The DM and some of the other players from the other game … Continue reading Playing
As I have mentioned multiple times here on the blog, I am in a weekly Wednesday night AD&D [Aff] campaign, Graveyard of Empires, on Roll20. We hit session 132 on November 23rd. John Carlson, our DM, has published an adventure on DriveThruRPG [Aff] & RPGNow [Aff] based on our first few sessions in the game. Being one of … Continue reading Mini Review – Automata Run Amok by John Carlson
I originally wrote about the software I use here, way back in July, 2009. While linking another article, I realized that I need to update where things are now with the software I use. My old dual boot PC was replaced by a dual boot laptop, but the screen went out, not completely, but very … Continue reading Software – Update Post
