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 […]
00 Day 26 – Do you prefer miniatures or ‘theatre of the mind’? I can’t play this game without minis. But I respect those who do. We’ve always played D&D with miniature figures, right from the start. Even before Grenadier and Citadel released their first ranges specifically for third game, we were using home-minis on […]
00 Day 25 – What’s your favourite non-magical item? Chocolate. Oh, ok. Something D&D-ish then… Um… Dunno. Sorry. Back to the list Prev: Day 24 Next: Day 26
00 Day 24 – What is your favourite magic item? My friend Andrew runs his game in a very interesting way – he’s deeply invested in storytelling and so he tries hard to get his players to think about their character and add different facets to them to flesh them out a bit before we […]
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 […]