A meandering journey into the world of fantasy.
No storytime this go around. This week we headed into the "campaign phase" I find this whole structure to be amazing. It is replacing what in other games would be "downtime", and focuses everyone at the table into the mindset of the game. This is probably my own biases talking, but I really feel that … Continue reading Annals of the Legion – part 2
Gateway by Alecyl Well, that was a really good decision.After the painful last session (where it took forever to just move a few rooms and work out the mechanics) we went back to the Freebooters ruleset. All of a sudden we were swiftly exploring and moving through the tower! For those interested, it was a … Continue reading The Lost – episode 3 – Escape?
Get it here So my "forever GM" streak has been interrupted!One of my players “M” has decided she wants to take a turn at the GM wheel. She was playing “Atli” in our ill-fated turn with Forbidden Lands, and enjoyed the whole building fiction thing… Now she wants to give it a try in a … Continue reading Band of Blades – Annals of the Legion pt1
Last of the Kings by Vladamir ManyukhinNot the right layout for the session, but scale is good(ish) This was ... not a great session. While running it we quickly came across some curious mechanical issues. Namely, that "Forbidden Lands" doesn't really discuss how to handle dungeon exploration... At least not to the same extent that … Continue reading The Lost – episode 2 – Into the Tower.
The Nine Realms by Haemi Jang We got together for our regular friday, and tabletalk grew to take over the session. We scribbled a little from Microscope, read the rules of Dawn of Worlds, talked mythology, and made a setting! There are a lot of stories that deal with multiple worlds - from Hindu cosmology, … Continue reading To-Holon – a multiverse?
Light the Beacons! Spread the word!Mountain Beacon by J-Humphries The other night a bunch of us were chatting on the OSR Discord and an interesting question came up."What are the most inspirational OSR Blogposts for you?"A lot of replies were forthcoming, and I felt that I needed to keep track of at least the most … Continue reading Inspirational OSR Posts.
by Cosimo Galluzzi The initial goal for our group: get the hell away from a war-zone. All the party knows a rumour of a magical place about a day's trip north in the hills, a place locals call "The Gatehouse". I sat them down and let them loose. Our three characters were given an "introduction … Continue reading The Lost – episode 1 – To the Gatehouse
Forbidden Lands by Fria Ligan. I gotta say, my players and I were sold on the game by the dino-riding robo-guy After the sudden death of our last characters, my players wanted to try something a little different. They enjoyed the setting, but found the system of Freebooters on the Frontier v2 to be a … Continue reading The Lost – a Forbidden Lands session 0.
Vome Convoy... (from Horizon Zero Dawn) This session had me excited. We were going to test out the travel rules from "Perilous Wilds" while the little expedition headed out across the Rust Plains.All I had to start was the map, the notes about the atlas hexes (G2, H3) and the random tables from Freebooters on … Continue reading The Fearless – Session 5
Heart of Nature by yakonusuke. I think this area was part of my original inspiration. I saw a kickstarter ages ago for a book - Into the Wyrd and Wild - and the initial paragraph by Charles Avery really captured by imagination: This is not the woods of peaceful fey and beast, but the dark … Continue reading The Great Forest – #tenmonstersetting
Wandering Wombat 