Gaming with Dylan

Warrens of Neverwinter Project

Session 6: A Book of the Dead

Valley promised the party that could keep other treasures found in the Villa, but the party did not loot anything, they grabbed the book and ran.

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Looking for A New Model

So, I am reentering the world of professional online game mastering after a multi-year break. For the past couple of years, I have been working on ghostwriting and doing in-person games, especially after a particularly bad experience with a player harassing me online. My priority here will be

Dungeons and Dragons

Session 5: A Crappy Dungeon Crawl

Also, you can't go wrong with poop and fart jokes with teenagers (or my 30-60 year old playtesters).

Warrens of Neverwinter Project

Session 4: Dance Fever

Like with my playtesters, the Dance Fever adventure was clearly a favorite. The fey duel where people could not affect the opponent lead to appropriate amounts of confusion and chaos and fun, especially when a player character is charmed into being a proxy for the Neogi enemy.

Dungeons and Dragons

Session 3: The Neverwinter Riot

....the party learned about the rivalry between the (evil) Zhentarim mercenaries, in charge of official oppression in the city and the (evil Zhentarim) Dockworker Association, which monopolizes the organized crime in the city.

Dungeons and Dragons

Session 2: The Dead of the Warrens

They also seem to be enjoying resolving situations without combat - not a single multilevel marketer Dragon Cultist has been slain so far.

Dungeons and Dragons

Session 1 : The Butcher of Greenest

So, this week at camp, we are starting a series of adventures written specifically for the camp that I plan to publish later.

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April Already

At some point, I might no longer be behind on my to-do lists, and I may not reflect on how fast time moves and how hard it is to keep up. I suspect I may be dead at that point, or possibly so depressed that I have just given up. But for now. How is it April already?

An Environment for the Red Menace

Battletech Aces

An Environment for the Red Menace

Catalyst Game Labs has actually done Battletech players a real favor – everything you need to play the Scouring Sands campaign is contained in the Alpha Strike box and the Scouring Sands box.

A variety of Battletech models in a red and gold livery.

Battletech Aces

The Red Menace

I was describing the paint job as a sort of “Gatsby Communist,” and a name clicked: “Red Menace.” To kind of run with that highbrow Gatsby communism theme, I think that the full name for my force will be the “Red Menace Mercenary Cooperative”.

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Tabletop Gaming Play, Thoughts and Ideas

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Don't Like Prep? Do Not Do It!

As an aside, this is also related to a question that I encourage everyone, but especially gamemasters, to ask themselves. “Is the game that I want to be playing, or is this the group I want to be playing with?”

A Battletech scene with buildings and trees from Alpha Strike, and hills, ravines and mechs from Scouring Sands,

Solo Wargaming, with Giant Robots!

Battletech Solo Play – Scouring Sands Aces I am always looking for new, quick-playing, solo wargames, and I have been playing Battletech for almost forty years – since the early days when it was almost entirely played with paper miniatures, and we had to photocopy mech record sheets – classic, if you

Photo Box

Photo Box

I have no use for AI art and would rather pay an artist to create art for me than use an environmental disaster mimeograph. Also, AI art is so soulless and I say this as a person who has a side hustle working with large language models, banal. It does

Dream Campaigns

...a list of dream adventures that they would like to run. Whether too long, too complicated, written for a system that they do not know any players of, or written for a system that does ot suit their gamemastering style.

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