• Blackmoor: Running Blog Pt.3 – Search for the Royal Botanist

    Blog 16: 6/21/2024 – Session 20, 21, 22 Our heroes spent a month of downtime in the capital of Dantredun after spending around 17 days on the road to Stoney Marsh and back to the University of Blackmoor where they finished their final delivery. I’m a really firm believer in large amounts of downtime. Here’s… Read more

  • Blackmoor: Running Blog Pt. 2 – Trek to Stoney Marsh

    This is a continuation of my campaign blog of Blackmoor. Click the button to read the first blog, and click the second to go to the latest post. Blog 10: 3/2/2024 – Session 8 Rhaegar and Baccaro entered the room and were met with two sets of glowing green eyes. They lit a candle and… Read more

  • Character Progression

    When trying to decide in a character progression system for my Blackmoor game, I decided to list out some of the pros and cons of each XP system I could think of or consider. Below are some of the descriptions and musings of that process. Milestone I think actual milestone can be really good if… Read more

  • Blackmoor: Running Blog Pt. 1 – Journey to the Purple Towns

    Intro Blackmoor started as a setting of Dave Arneson and the first setting of Dungeons & Dragons. It had a lot of wargame influence and a pulpy mix of science-fiction and medieval fantasy elements. As much as I enjoy both genres individually, I think modern culture has really segregated them into two, separate things as… Read more

  • Sparse Audio

    When my family and I started playing Dungeons & Dragons when I was 7, I was introduced to the game in a very old way. We played AD&D 2e, my dad insisted on me mapping each square of the dungeon in pencil, and we played Keep on the Borderlands (B2) as our first adventure. My… Read more

  • The 3D Warlock

    Among the more than dozen classes in 5e, Warlock most naturally integrates story and backstory into the game. There’s a lot of ways to play, and a lot of good examples nowadays with actual play games like Critical Role, but I think a lot of warlocks are two-dimensional and missing a major component that can… Read more