One bard's take on D&D and other things
In this session, the party once again runs out of time before making it further into the temple area. But, in the tavern, they uncover something troubling about one of the threshold guardians…
In these posts, I discuss my roguelike-inspired D&D campaign sessions.
Continue readingWe had another session of my roguelike campaign this weekend! In these posts, I talk about my roguelike-inspired D&D campaign sessions.
Continue readingRainy day sessions have a great atmosphere! In these posts, I talk about my roguelike-inspired D&D campaign sessions.
Continue readingFall approaches for us in the northern hemisphere, and we’ve just had our second session of the roguelike campaign!
Here, I discuss the preparation and running of sessions for my roguelike-style D&D campaign.
Continue readingMy new campaign has officially started!
In these posts, I’ll talk about preparing and running sessions for my roguelike-style D&D 5e campaign.
Continue readingWe’ve completed the session zero and have scheduled the first session of the new campaign I’ve been working on!
Moving forward, these posts will be called “Roguelike Recap” and will discuss the sessions of the campaign.
For now, let’s talk about the session zero!
Continue readingWhile my introduction to D&D was in-person, most of my D&D experience has been online. There are many different tools out there for online play! So far, though, I’ve preferred a pretty simple approach that uses Discord for sessions and campaign organization.
In this post, I’ll talk about different ways I’ve used Discord as a Dungeon Master.
Continue readingThe playtest is complete! I’m collecting feedback this weekend and will start building out the rest of the campaign. Let’s talk about the playtest!
I’m writing a homebrew campaign in the style of a Hades-esque roguelike. I’m playtesting it with my group before I run it for real! These posts talk about my experience making a campaign like this from the ground up.
Continue readingWe did the first session of our two-part playtest this weekend! Let’s talk about how it went!
I’m writing a homebrew campaign in the style of a Hades-esque roguelike. I’m playtesting it with my group before I run it for real! These posts talk about my experience making a campaign like this from the ground up.
Continue readingMy first playtest deadline is coming up at the end of this month, and I still have plenty of work to do! But I’ve made good progress so far.
I’m writing a homebrew campaign in the style of a Hades-esque roguelike. I’m going to playtest it with my group before I finalize it and run it for real! These posts talk about my experience making a campaign from scratch. The last homebrew campaign I ran was much more improvisational than this. But D&D 5e isn’t made to fit this campaign idea right out of the box, so there’s some design work I need to do beforehand!
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