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 across […]
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 starting […]
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 these […]
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 were […]
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 foam […]
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 those, […]
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 all […]
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 we’ll […]
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 holders […]
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 the […]