Tales of the Songbird – ep-00

+10 Draw near the fire and warm your bones While I strum my lyre with soothing tones. A tale I will sing ye of sadness and woe And gladness and madness, with blade and with bow… A Test of Blade and Bow Five stood in the afternoon sun with the roar of the crowd echoing […]

10 D&D Cliches to Avoid

00 You may choose to heed this wisdom or ignore it at your peril. Actually, this is really just a list of my past frustrations about D&D and is a precautionary tool of stuff I will make sure I avoid doing in the future. 1. You meet in a Tavern Pretty much everyone has experienced […]

Doing my bottle

+10 I generally use P3 and Vallejo paints, with a smattering of GW colours and one or two other brands. P3 are impossible to buy in stores where I live now, so I either have to give them up or find an online supplier. Vallejo and GW paints are in plentiful supply here though, so […]

Game as Ned Kelly

00 My T-SOG friends and I recently had the opportunity to play a re-enactment of the Kelly Gang’s last stand at Glenrowan, kindly hosted by George (surname suppressed in the interests of privacy). He ran the scenario as a ‘come & try’ game at Little Wars Adelaide in July of this year and, because we […]

Tiles of War

+10 I did a roadtrip last year (2018) with friends to visit Little Wars Melbourne. An absolute blast of a trip too and LWM is such a fun day. While I was there I saw a game table for Wings of Glory that seriously blew me away. It was built on a base of interlocking […]

D&D Challenge Day 31 – Where to from here?

00 Day 31: What other RPGs has this game inspired you to try? Ah the places I’ve been, the things I’ve seen… How do I play thee? Let me count the games… Gamma World Boot Hill Middle Earth Role Playing Pathfinder Dungeon World Star Wars RPG Twighlight 2000 Traveller Savage Worlds Achtung! Cthulhu Out of […]

D&D Challenge Day 30 – Best DM I’ve had?

+10 Day 30 – Who is the best DM you’ve had? Frankly my dear, I don’t give a DM. I’ve played in three DM’s campaigns before. The first was a guy at Adelaide Uni and, sorry dude, but you were shit. The second was my brother and it was a great adventure that we were […]

D&D Challenge Day 29 – House Rules OK

00 Day 28 – House rules – yay or nay? When appropriate, yes. I don’t stick to the ‘rules’ of the game these days, but rather make ‘rulings’ based on the situation. If you want to throw your war hammer at a fleeing Hobgoblin, then sure, why not? But since you’ve never done it before […]

D&D Challenge Day 28 – What are your favourite dice?

+10 Day 28 – Your favourite set of dice/individual die I collect dice. I think many gamers do, to the point of obsession. I’ve commissioned a few custom dice in the past too for the One Ring website members. But a good friend of mine in the States recently made me a pair of dice […]

D&D Challenge Day 27 – Where to begin?

00 Day 27 – Where do your adventures usually begin? In a tavern. Not really, although I have used that once (it was the Prancing Pony). It’s such a tired old cliche and yet still gets used today (Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, I’m looking at you). I try to throw the players into the thick of […]