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 […]
00 Day 13 – Who is/was your favourite NPC? As a DM, I admit to a glaring hole in my adventure running – I don’t do NPCs very much. I think it’s because I felt I needed to act out the character, but I’m very self-conscious about it and wasn’tr confident I could carry it […]
00 Day 12 – What is your favourite trap or puzzle? My players seem to struggle with doors. Basic, common, garden-variety doors. For some reason, these cause the greatest amount of debate on how to proceed. They know there’s something waiting for them on the other side and we go round and round until inevitably […]
00 Day 11 – What is your favourite dungeon type or setting? Swamps. Swamps are fascinating places – very atmospheric, teeming with life and guaranteed to be filled with the most deadly of creatures. Hidden amongst the drowned trees, expect to find vine-covered temples, pyramids, and other evidence of lost civilisations. In my Rift-world setting, […]
00 Day 10 – Favourite Adventure You’ve Run This one is aimed at the DM, so if you’re a player and are doing your own challenge, change it to ‘Favourite Adventure You’ve Played’ – thinking about it, that question would work for both sides. Anyhoo. My favourite pony adventure. There’s two. The adventure I enjoyed […]
00 Day 9 – What crazy things have happened to you and your group? We’ve had a lot of fun with this game over the years, as well as some frustrations. A few too many abandoned campaigns as well, for a number of reasons – mostly though because of the physical distance between us now, […]
00 Day 8 – What is the favourite character you haven’t played? The question is a little open to interpretation. Does it refer to a character I have developed but haven’t used yet? Or is it asking about someone else’s character that I have admired and enjoyed playing alongside? I would say that both questions […]
00 Day 7 – What is the favourite character you have played? Ghath the half-elf Bard. Ghath was a troubadour (and troublemaker) in the market places of the Parsanteum, a vast sprawling metropolis at the centre of the trade routes between East and West. Rumour had it that the ruler of the city was actually […]
00 I really don’t care much for the gods of fantasy novels and game worlds. They are all (for the most part) just, well … bullshit. So structured and formulaic. Give me the gods of the real world any day – ancient or modern! Theology is a bizarre and fascinating topic. Since my game setting […]