Benefits of Invisibility I think my very first instance of “shipping” involved the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon from the 1980s. This was long before I even knew what “shipping” was. I just mentally paired off Hank the ranger and Sheila the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Twenty-One This will final session of this “season”, as it’s a good place to take a break as one of my players is itching to DM another adventure, while I have an idea for a Star Wars mini-campaign. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Twenty Season Two of my Borderlands campaign is rushing towards an ending as I potentially resolve the second character arc, wrapping up the Red Mage’s quest, which has driven the last three or so sessions. The character is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Nineteen With my homegame resuming and becoming weekly for a short period, I have precious little time to prepare. I don’t know how people manage weekly games…. (Well, I imagine they’re not doing daily quests in an MMO […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands Session Eighteen My homegame took a sudden, unexpected hiatus due to DM depression. Gaming, which is my primary escape, became mentally and emotionally associated with a stressor. This created a lovely feedback loop where I became stressed and automatically […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Until now, rules support for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons has been limited to the small handful of classes in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide and the races of Volo’s Guide to Monsters, with the majority of classes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Seventeen My last session was probably a textbook example of poorly executed Dungeon Mastering. My players jumped through a super obvious adventure hook, but a couple sessions before I thought they were going to. I responded with a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Borderlands: Session Sixteen My homegame is finally resuming after four or so months of hiatus. One of my players took over the table for a mini-campaign that ran for five or six sessions, but was heavily delayed due to busy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Tomb of Annihilation The seventh large storyline adventure for the 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons is the Tomb of Annihilation. Advertised as an reimagining of the “classic” deathtrap dungeon, the Tomb of Horrors, the adventure features the return […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Starfinder Core Rulebook Starfinder is a stand-alone roleplaying game, being advertised as “Pathfinder in Space”. Starfinder is created and publisher by Paizo Inc, which made its name after licensing the classical magazines, Dragon and Dungeon before switching to 3rd […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Review: Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting Spinning out of, Critical Role, the hit Geek & Sundry Livestream* D&D game, is the Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting book. This product details the main continent of the campaign and is set roughly a year after the Chroma […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
