Hey Keepers of the Gauntlet and fans of Discern Realities!
Hey Keepers of the Gauntlet and fans of Discern Realities! I’ve been hard at work on a project for over a year and I’m dropping it on you today. Announcing Plundergrounds, a zine devoted to Dungeon World adventures! (Also suitable for Macchiato Monsters and other OSR games.)
Get your hands on the free first issue at my Patreon link below. It’s got 24 pages of politically-motivated intelligent apes, gladiator battles, weird alien tech, and an insane dimensional portal. Yeah, all that, and some cool art by Sean Poppe to boot.
If you enjoy it, subscribe through my Patreon and get issues in every even month of 2017.
Dungeon World Wednesday: Anglekite kicked off nicely.
Dungeon World Wednesday: Anglekite kicked off nicely. We have a party of two veterans returning from season one and a whole host of new, interesting players ready to try and thwart the end of the world!
This session was fantastic! Everything fired off nicely. I engaged with a new way of starting a session (unique to the setting, but potentially adaptable to others, I expect to talk about this on the new Discern Realities) and the players had imaginative, colorful additions to the world we were describing.
This session reminds me why I love the Dungeon World system and makes me sooo excited for running more and more adventures in Magpie Games setting of Last Days of Anglekite!
Special thank you to all the players who made the text come to life! josh gary Maxime Lacoste Patrick Brannick Jennifer Erixon Michael X. Heiligenstein
A new episode of the Hooded Luchadore. He looks at the Gauntlet League Wrestling action in St. Petersburg from this weekend. Horrible injuries, feuds settled, careers ended, awesome debuts & more. I also have a link to the session video in the description of this one. Thanks again to HL for this.
Session three of eight of this World Wide Wrestling promotion.
Made this last night, supposed to be booklet printed on a single A4 sheet for AU conventions and other opportunities to get new folks playing. I took liberties. Tell me if you hate anything I did, there is a possibility I will get around to revising it when I recover from my Canva Rage.
I’ve been working on a simple PbtA game designed to teach kids to lucid dream and overcome nightmares.
I’ve been working on a simple PbtA game designed to teach kids to lucid dream and overcome nightmares. I’ve recently finished a complete rewrite focused on accessibility and I’d like to share it with all of you.
Based on my experience with my dreamers, this version is fully playable. I still hope to hammer out the details and finesse the language, but for now I hope that this might inspire you to grab some dice tonight and explore your child’s imagination.
Note that the rules text assumes it is at the end of a book after a series of children’s stories designed to teach the fundamentals of lucid dreaming.
Nocturnal has a new Kickstarter for a game called Cold Shadows.
Nocturnal has a new Kickstarter for a game called Cold Shadows. It’s a narrative-driven espionage game derived from Blood & Honor and World of Dew. I’m a big fan of John le Carré novels, so I’ll have my eye on this one!
So today, I followed in +Tim B’s footsteps and ran a one-shot of The Indie Hack today.
So today, I followed in +Tim B’s footsteps and ran a one-shot of The Indie Hack today.
My personal goal was to do a short, very old-school type Dungeon Crawl, and see how the system handled it.
Here’s a review in brief:
1. Is the game easy to pick up? Yes!
Character creation + teaching the system over hangouts took took about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Not too bad, but I wish I had allotted more time for this.
2. Can you run an OSR module using this system? Absolutely!
You can do it quite well. Traps, monsters, and mystical dangers can be done easily and in a satisfying way. I do not know how a “Big Boss” combat would go. I have yet to try that out in-game.
3. Is it fun? Heck yes!
The dice mechanic is super good. No matter which way the dice swing, it’s exciting! Also, the aid/interfere is AMAZINGLY FUN. It’s flexible as well, in that it can be played well in lieu of planning, but also can reward having a layout/dungeon map/pre-planned home-brewed content.
4. Who would it not be fun for?
People who are looking for the true-blue OSR experience complete with crunch, experience tracking, in-depth advancement, and complex spellbooks.
Also, people who don’t like story games, adding to the fiction themselves, and looser rules which can be somewhat re-interpreted on the fly.
In summary:
It’s a great system! I imagine it would be difficult to NOT enjoy yourself while playing.It’s really fun to GM. The players seemed to enjoy themselves too. (Though, my time management was not perfect this time around.)
I get the feeling that a full multi-session adventure would do well in the system.
Thanks Slade Stolar for making the game, and all who gamed with me; new friends Christian Hundahl and Andrew Fish and veterans Jim Cummings and Jennifer Erixon
