1 post published by dreamingdragonslayer during August 2025| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
Shipwright. Y’all can thank Varzival for this one. They pinged me about their excitement for a post about MB from me :) So I deliver. MAPS Having a map players can see is nice. Have minis on …| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
A happy birthday month to my father! I just recently recovered a box of his Tolkien materials and discovered an essay he wrote 32 years ago. Did some quick speech-to-text reading, some edits, and a…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
When talking about the next storygame we wanted to play, my buddy threw out this moment as something that captured his imagination. Watch this to understand where my head is at: Let’s play in the world of Samurai Jack. It’s a world brimming with style, stuffed with action tropes, and overflowing with anachronism stew. This … Continue reading Gotta get back, back to the past→| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
…And that is not an inherently good quality. It’s like in Harry Potter: when Dobby the house elf dies, Harry insists on giving him a burial dug with his own hands, rightly intuiting that there is more dignity and honor in the honest sweat of working the shovel than waving his wand. His friend deserves … Continue reading AI is like magic…→| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
104 days of summer vacation seems a lifetime away for you and I…. Nevertheless, today we join the boy geniuses of Phineas and Ferb in a social matrix game podcast actual play episode! Is it r…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
A. Shipwright Systems that use three stats: Into the Odd, Electric Bastionland, Maze Rats, Red Ink Adventures, AKA systems I tinker with and love dearly. These systems have made me examine the typi…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
8 posts published by dreamingdragonslayer during March 2020| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
Crypts and Creatures! “I smite thee with a magic missile! MAGIC MISSILE!” My buddy Kyle Burger and I played a social matrix game, a kind of storygame with incredibly simple rules: Start…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
I’ve seen these all over the internet (and in a game or two if I’m not mistaken). The idea is that a random encounter on a 1-in-6 is basically not worth rolling. If I’m going to r…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
10 posts published by dreamingdragonslayer during January 2020| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
Listen, I’m a snob in many areas, but especially in how I have fun. If a game is pitched to me as “popular”, I’m wary of it. “Everyone’s doing it” is one o…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
Dear Mr Dragonslayer :) How do you handle resource management in an open table campaign? Your wrote a great article on “returning to base” each session in an open table campaign. We are…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
Keeping this project alive in my imagination with smaller projects while BIG things marinate in the background… Added character sheet, updated for Skorne v2.1. See the originals from TaTooKa&…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
The dark world just became deadlier. The Fiends of Skorne, the latest supplement for the role-playing game Skorne, unleashes a host of terrifying creatures to haunt your campaigns. This collection…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
A. Shipwright. Here is the continually updated link to the rules of Red Ink Adventures. Here is the character sheet. After some playtesting, I adjusted some things. So if you’ve downloaded it…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER
“Inspiration comes from on high… So does magic, but same difference.”A. Shipwright Imagine an RPG meant to be played with the traditional setup of players and GM but with the foll…| DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER