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 every […]
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 have […]
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 listed […]
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 reason […]
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 Lord […]
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 off […]
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 someone […]
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, the […]
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 running […]
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, scattered […]