DIY & dragons: Science Fiction Remix - Baron Harkonnen
My first introduction to the world of Dune happened years before I read the book, when I saw Wayne Barlowe's illustration of a navigator wh...| diyanddragons.blogspot.com
Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings, adventures, and reminisces for the jam. Beyond the participants, I heard a lot of positive feedback, and many people asked me to announce another this year.| DIY & dragons
This is my fourth year doing a round-up of my favorite media. This year, I decided to pick one winner in each category, but acknowledge a top five, which made it easier to give shout-outs to all my runners-up. So here are my favorite things from 2024! If there's a trend, I think it's that I've applauded originality, often giving the win to works that are the least like what I've seen before.| DIY & dragons
The 2024 Bloggie awards are here, and DIY & dragons is a finalist in two categories! | DIY & dragons
For Secret Santicorn 2024, Vile Cult of Shapes asked for "effects of prolonged exposure of Primal Darkness on various surface dwelling species."| DIY & dragons
Everything people make builds on what came before. The original edition of Dungeons & Dragons built on miniature wargaming rules as well as other recent attempts to repurpose wargames to explore imaginary fantasy worlds, attempts like Braunstein, Blackmoor, and the Dungeon! boardgame. Since then, there have been countless roleplaying games built off of D&D, both a few official new editions and iterations, and innumerable attempts by professional designers and interested amateurs alike to make...| DIY & dragons
This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland. I wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous pubcrawl location. Among other things, my other pub was kind of out of the way and disconnected from the rest of the Raves of Chaos, this one is right in the thick of things. And I took a bit of advantage of the unlimited space afforded to blog posts. Fitting a full pub on a two-page spread requires brevity, and really good editing. Here, I let myself sprawl...| DIY & dragons
TheSummer Lego RPG Setting Jam has officially ended. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated! Nineteen people submitted entries between May 8th and July 8th, including my own entry makes an even 20! I'm so pleased and happy to see them all. Let's take a look at what everyone turned in!| DIY & dragons
Hi everyone! I have two announcements about the ongoing Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam, still open until July 8th. First, several people have reached out to me with links that might be helpful for anyone working on their own entry. And second, the first few entries have been submitted!| DIY & dragons
My regular Friday night gaming group has been playing through Gavin Norman's The Incandescent Grottoes. It's a dungeon that's full of caverns of glowing crystals, which is what it's named for, and also classic D&D monsters like fungi, slimes, and the undead. And, oh yeah, a dragon!| DIY & dragons
This is my third annual Year in Review post, so I think I can officially consider it a tradition! Here are my favorite things from 2023.| DIY & dragons
Since I wrote my previous post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation. Once the two of them arrived at a place of understanding, Ava also reached out to me to mediate a conversation between me and Justin. The purpose of this conversation was for each of us to understand where the other was coming from, to see if we could find any common ground, and to reach a willingness to agree to disagree on the rest. I'm grateful to Ava for helpin...| DIY & dragons
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Since I wrote this post, my friend Ava Islam reached out to Justin Alexander and engaged him in a productive conversation. Once the two of them arrived at a place of understanding, Ava also reached out to me to mediate a conversation between me and Justin. The purpose of this conversation was for each of us to understand where the other was coming from, to see if we could find any common ground, and to reach a willingness to agree to disagree on the rest. I'm grateful to Ava fo...| DIY & dragons
The last time I talked about the book Future Evolution, I mentioned that author Peter Ward and illustrator Alexis Rockman mostly did not engage in the kind of biological speculation that the title of their book seems to imply. | DIY & dragons
COLUMBO: So, Miss Anna, you own many books! And many gimmick books, I think?| DIY & dragons
Over at From the Sorcerer's Skull, Trey has an idea for a spooky season campaign setting that really intrigues me.| DIY & dragons
By now you've probably heard the good news, but just in case you haven't...| DIY & dragons
The last time I wrote about Barkeep on the Borderlands, it was but a young Kickstarter with dreams of fully funding, and my own involvement was merely the future promise of an as-yet unmet stretch goal.| DIY & dragons
Over the past year and a half, I've been writing reviews of all the books I finish and posting them to a private social media feed. | DIY & dragons
Last year I started what I hope will be an annual tradition, and posted reviews of my favorite things I read and watched in 2021. It's time again, so here are my favorites from 2022! | DIY & dragons
For the second meeting of the Roadside Picnic Basket Book Club, Trey from From the Sorcerer's Skull played host, and invited me to discuss the dungeoneering aspects of Peter Watts' novel Blindsight. | DIY & dragons
The fifth season of Nick LS Whelan's excellent Blogs on Tape project is well underway, and I've been fortunate enough to be included again this year!| DIY & dragons
Over the summer, I got really depressed. I've had major depressive disorder for more or less my entire life, and I mostly have it well-managed, but sometimes it grows out of my control. Summers are often worse, for whatever reason. And of course, the general state of the world has worsened, downgrading from this-is-fine-dot-png to not-great-bob-dot-gif, in ways too numerous to mention, which isn't the cause of my depression, but certainly doesn't help either.| DIY & dragons
BATPHONE - Ring ring!| DIY & dragons
My first introduction to the world of Dune happened years before I read the book, when I saw Wayne Barlowe's illustration of a navigator wh...| diyanddragons.blogspot.com
Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings, adventures, and reminisces for the jam. Beyond the participants, I heard a lot of positive feedback, and many people asked me to announce another this year.| diyanddragons.blogspot.com
D&D -style games traditionally have 6 ability scores, but those 6 scores actually represent 8 different abilities. Those 8 abilities, in tur...| diyanddragons.blogspot.com
I want to officially announce the start of the Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam ! The goal of this game jam is to design a small roleplaying game...| diyanddragons.blogspot.com
There are three ways I think about information in roleplaying games. Information can be landmark , or hidden , or it can be secret . This...| diyanddragons.blogspot.com
