Borderlands: Session Fifteen I like television. That’s a bold statement, I know. I enjoy the narrative constraints television seasons bring to an ongoing story. The idea of ups and downs leading to peak viewing weeks, with cliffhangers, and finally the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Fourteen It’s amazing how two weeks can just flash by. This session snuck up on me and I barely had time to really plan or get my thoughts down. It didn’t help that I was ill for a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Thirteen It’s been a long time since my last game session. It felt like the campaign only just started again after the last hiatus. The end of the last session was a little funky, and I definitely rushed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
D&D Review: Tales From the Yawning Portal Wizards of the Coast has been keeping us fans on our toes with unexpected products that seldom fit into the comfortable expected boxes built by prior editions. Or, as their latest adventure module […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Twelve The next session of my Borderlands campaign is scheduled for two week after the previous session. And I could spent that fortnight drinking heavily and rolling my face back and forth over the keyboard and still be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Save Your Campaign with the Tomb of Horror You look over your Dungeon Master’s screen at the anxious and upset faces of your players as they furtively look over their character sheets, triple checking spells and magic items. They know […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Eleven With a sudden character death halfway through the previous session, the final half was focused on resurrection and the related return journey towards civilization. Now that all members of the party are sucking oxygen again – and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Ten I failed to ask what the party planned to do next at the end of my previous gaming session, and thus have a limited idea of their future plans. Next session I will have to be far […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
D&D Review: Volo’s Guide to Monsters The first major monster expansion by Wizards of the Coast for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons (and the second official accessory for the tabletop RPG game), Volo’s Guide to Monsters is an odd duck […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Adventures in Middle Earth Player’s Guide Published by the British RPG studio, Cubicle 7, the first book in the Adventures in Middle Earth product line is the Player’s Guide. Cubicle 7 current publishes of the One Ring roleplaying game […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session Two At the end of each session I like asking two things: what’s your plan and when’s the next session? The first question is theoretically more important: what are the characters going to do next? Are they stealthily […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
BorderLands: Session One Roll for initiative!! That’s how I want to start my forthcoming campaign. I think I tried doing this once before and choked. People got distracted and not everyone was at the table. Plus there wasn’t the initial […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
