Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from “off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures...| harbingergames.blogspot.com
Not too long ago I celebrated the 45th anniversary of me starting an AD&D 1e campaign. I started the campaign before I was a teenager and it is still going as I approach retirement. I also have an AD&D 2e campaign that is almost 20 years odl and a Champions super-hero campaign that is ‘merely’ over a decade old| Don't Split the Party
Written by Jen, a player. We first ran into the “dead level” long ago, fairly early on in our explorations of Skull Mountain. It was incr...| harbingergames.blogspot.com
At the end of the last Skull Mountain session the PCs had retreated to safety at Owen's redoubt, met with visiting elves, and recovered from injuries for some time. A lot happened away from table with them and with many other PCs slowing their return. But yesterday they returned, the same players and so on| Don't Split the Party
I prefer not to talk about my current personal life because this blog is about gaming, pop culture, etc., not a journal. But I have been light on blogging for the last three years because of multiple personal medical emergencies ranging from emergency abdominal surgery to save my life to a pulmonary embolism that should have been lethal (I do not recommend them). Very many of the last 18 months have been bedrest, recuperation, physical therapy, and so on. I am facing at least one additional s...| Don't Split the Party
The crew on my Discord have been asking me to talk about the culture of the early days of the RPG hobby. While I started relatively late (only began playing in '77 and didn't start DMing until '79) I am very much part of that First Wave and, as a Gen Xer, was definitely in the culture.| Don't Split the Party
Hello, folks, it is time for a massive update! There were two sessions recently, both played on a weekend. In the first one we had| Don't Split the Party
The most recent sessions took place in the Stone Hills west of Seaward.| Don't Split the Party
I am currently running about 12 players in my AD&D 1e campaign in roughly 3 three groups.. This means that I must keep STRICT TIME RECORDS as gary mentions.| Don't Split the Party
For those that don't know I had a serious health crisis early in the year. I didn't cheat Death, but I did win on the long odds. Three times. So blogging was light.| Don't Split the Party
As most everyone who finds this obscure blog knows I started playing OD&D in 1977 and switched to AD&D 1e in 1979 and have been playing 1e ever since. In August of 2022 my 1e campaign, still running, turns 43 years old.| Don't Split the Party
A key element of Psychotronic Gaming is that change must occur. | Don't Split the Party
Returning to more frequent blogging after a critical illness, I hope that you remember that I was just starting a series on EpicAdventures before I was taken ill. This is what is often called a 'setup post' - I am discussing what I will be discussing in future articles.| Don't Split the Party
Back when I started this blog almost nine years ago (hard to believe!) I had never really combined the internet and RPGs. I hadn't ever gone to an RPG forum (and now post about once a year on HERO Games forums). I hadn't ever done much, if anything, on Facebook RPG groups. Heck, I had no idea what Dragonsfoot was until a month before I started this blog! I had made a Google+ account and found out that there were a ton of RPGers there, started this blog, and perused some of the internet's RPG ...| Don't Split the Party
Strap in, folks, this is the summary of 8 years of roleplaying. Back in 2013 I started a new Champions campaign with my oldest sons and many of their friends. They players have changed and everyone followed my 'every players has multiple characters' rule, and we ended up with multiple games with multiple GMs in a shared universe, so there have been a LOT of PC heroes! The 8 years of real time have equaled about 8 years of game time, for various fun reasons involving session timing. Because o...| Don't Split the Party
I spoke with a number of players, both those currently active and those from the past(!) about adventures they felt were epic, the sorts of adventures yu still talk about years later. They all pretty much agreed on a list of the most epic adventures, which follows.| Don't Split the Party
By special request I am doing an arc on epic adventures. To prepare for this I have spent a few days talking to current and former players about the adventures they felt were the biggest, baddest, and most epic. From them I have picked a few examples and will use them to describe how you can run the sorts of sessions that players talk about 30 years later!| Don't Split the Party
On Black Friday we had a long, involved session set in Blackstone, my AD&D 2e Players Option campaign, which is 14 years old ('the new campaign').| Don't Split the Party
Hello, all! Over the last 60 days we've done about 12 Champions sessions from San Mateo to Atlanta to Teens. Some of these had play reports on the Discord, others for Patrons only, and a few will be in upcoming podcasts. Here are some of the highlights.| Don't Split the Party
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One of the things I have been writing about for some time is the positive impact of every players having multiple characters available for play. They can be if widely varying levels, but in my experience by the time you are on your 5th or6th session as a group of players everyone should have at least 2 characters each.| Don't Split the Party
As a change of pace the crew decided to play villains for a while! We started off with the following:| Don't Split the Party
I finally get to play a new Champions character!| Don't Split the Party
Adventure Fiction as Cosmopolitan Literature| Don't Split the Party
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