If there has been one good thing to arise from this dreadful pandemic it has been the realisation within that we were all too hurried and harried in the time before. I have been forced to slow down. To stop. I have learned to sit in silence and to enjoy the time I have with … Continue reading Inspired by Amazing Adventures 5e
Written by guest blogger and patron, Brian McKay - many thanks! ...and Taking the Game on the Road When I first discovered Che’s Roleplay Rescue podcast, I had already been skating around the edges of returning to gaming. In the last few years, the explosion of 5th Edition, the current “renaissance” tabletop roleplaying games have … Continue reading Getting Back to the Game
This week I returned to the school club as the Dungeon Master and offered a fresh new game of Dungeons & Dragons using the D&D Essentials Kit. Frankly, I had a really good time - probably the best game of the Fifth Edition I have ever had - and introduced five players to Phandalin. The … Continue reading D&D With Teens
Today I have begun a bold experiment in my hobby gaming. In short, I have decided to run at least four sessions of Old-School Essentials for the Friday Night Gamers. What and Why? Old-School Essentials is, to quote from the Core Rules book: "Old-School Essentials is a role-playing game of fantastic adventure, peril, monsters, and … Continue reading Old-School Essentials: First Impressions
As I said the other day, there are lots of pieces of content that I create which are too long for a DM's Diary episode but also not really the kind of material that I'd want to put on the main Anchor podcast for fear of cluttering up the main episode stream. This episode was … Continue reading Unboxing D&D Essentials
