00 Day 23 – What’s your favourite alignment? I get that there’s a reason for the whole ‘Alignment’ thing. It gives players (and DMs) a framework for hanging in-game decisions off. It’s the basis of the ‘role play’ side of the game I guess, but it just seems so forced to me. I’m ok with […]
00 Day 22 – Do you prefer high fantasy or low fantasy? I love heroic fantasy and have read a loads of books in that genre: LOTR, Elric, Conan, Shannara, Thomas Covenant, Song of Ice & Fire, and so on. My favourites though are the Lyonesse Series by Jack Vance, and the Chronicles of Morgaine […]
00 Day 21 – Have you ever used or encountered recurring villains in your campaigns? Oh yeah. My players love this and so do I. The first game we played when we resurrected our interest in D&D was meant to be a one-shot set in the coastal town of Ichthus, a fishing port on the […]
00 Day 20 – Do you prefer one-shot games or full blown campaigns? Both game styles have their place and I’ve had a lot of fun running them too. I love the story-telling that a campaign provides though, so that’s my answer for this question. My players also enjoy how stories unfold, but probably not […]
00 Day 19 – What’s your favourite playing style – role playing or maxing stats? Neither, to be honest. Well, I lean towards the Role Play style, but I’m not a great one for inventing a character and sticking to it. I mentioned in an earlier post that I gravitate towards the Rogue group of […]
00 Day 18 – What is your preferred DM style – super-prepared or ‘wing it’? I learned how to run a game from reading published adventures, like the Village of Hommlet (I still have it in my collection). These adventures were fully developed and often quite linear (aka rail-roading) – fully drawn up maps with […]
00 Day 17 – What is the highest level you or your players have achieved? Wow, this is embarrassing… Level 3. I’ve been playing this game for about 40 years and I’ve never run it at anything higher than level 3. I feel so ashamed. Let me explain… In my time playing this game, I […]
00 Day 16 – What creature would you use as your familiar? This is a hard one for me. There are a few and picking one would be difficult. My favourite creature on the face of this planet is the timber wolf, followed closely by the otter. But neither of these are amongst the creatures […]
00 Day 15 – What is your least favourite monster? Cop out answer – I don’t have one. There are many monsters I won’t use in my campaign for the simple reason that they don’t fit into the environment the players are exploring. There are many monster that (to me at least) have no rational […]
00 Day 14 – What is your ‘go-to’ monster (as a DM) or your favourite monster as a player? Orcs. Tolkein again. I cannot go past these cruel and vicious warriors. I don’t think of them as the green-skinned tusked creatures of Warhammer and World of Warcraft, but rather the corrupted humanoids (elfoids?) from the […]