The Shield Queen ruled benevolently over her realm for years, served by her faithful shield maidens. During that time, the land experienced peace & prosperity. Justice extended from the highest courtier to the lowliest servant. But the official records show that an attempted palace coup by a vassal knight led to her death. The squabbling … Continue reading Catacombs of the Shield Queen
So I ran a game at a makerspace in Plano, Texas, not too far from my home. Despite my nervousness, it went pretty well. A few people had already played lots of D&D - one showed up with his original stuff including goldenrod character sheets! - which made me even more nervous. When we finally … Continue reading Goblin Gully at TheLab
I didn't actually play much D&D during most of 2015 for various reasons. This year, I want to do a lot more of that. So I started thinking about how I can do that in ways that work for my life: father of older children, a relatively demanding job with intermittent travel, social anxiety that sometimes … Continue reading Play options in 2016
The main reason I stopped playing D&D Fifth Edition was that it read too much like a set of software requirements (use cases). 5e writes everything out in expansive detail, rather than in a concise "Strunk & White-esque" manner. This drove me back to simpler rule sets like Swords & Wizardry and even Microlite20 or Searchers … Continue reading Musing on the implications of the D&D 5e SRD
So this weekend I'm going to run some D&D at a local makerspace (TheLab.ms has an open house Saturday evening for anybody in the Dallas-Plano area). I'm probably going to use "Searchers of the Unknown" by +Nicolas Dessaux or some variant thereof, because you can't get much simpler and call it D&D. Microlite20 would work just … Continue reading Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
Technoskald's Forge 