@markcsigs
He/Him. Retired dad, husband, grandpa. TTRPG fan, forever GM by choice. Occasional blogger. Proud New Englander. Ask about Schadengard, my online Shadowdark West Marches campaign (campaign banner art Eon Fontes-May YCBN Games)
Local FLGS Elm City Games celebrated their 10th anniversary. Spent the day there running a drop-in drop-out Shadowdark gauntlet open table and it was a blast! Had up to 7 players at a time and taught the game to a lot of people!
My wife Mary was given a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD at Winter Fantasy. How was your weekend?
Back to the Mythic Bastionland well. Working to grow as a GM and resisting the temptation to just turn it into a different kind of D&D.
An article on how we organize our Shadowdark Discord server for West-Marches play.
This was absolutely my impression as well! So good on so many levels completely ruined by one sloppy mechanic. I liked how Lancaster handled combative worker placement a lot better.
Ha! Yup, you got it. :)
Thanks for writing awesome stuff!
Hmm. I don't like the way the thumbnail comes out, but it's Tower of the Spectral Sorceress by @watcherdm.com
He gets me! He really gets me! @slyflourish.com summing up my feelings exactly about OSR style play and OSR style games and the OSR community and overcategorization in general. AND he pronounces “Primer” correctly!!
Going to be doing a live stream of this afternoon's #Shadowdark game on my friend's Twitch stream. Come check it out if you're interested 1:30 - 5:30(ish) EST www.twitch.tv/onlyhowardmoon
Yeah, for next time I'm going to sketch out (one or two lines) multiple ideas for each kind of landmark, then I can either pick an appropriate one, or roll one at random and flavor it to fit the area/moment with improvised details.
Exactly
I link the Atlantic article I reference in the Substack, but I'll also put it in the second half of the post for easy reference.
Wrote about my ArcaneCon experience on Substack. Spoiler alert: It was awesome!
Tremendous con! And a pleasure to meet in person.
Chatting with @nightnoon.games reminded me that I never shared my latest write-up here.
Overheard today at the Verizon Store:
Sales Associate: "Can I get your e-mail address?"
Older Customer: "I don't have e-mail."
SA: "Oh, uh ..." starts to mention ways to get past not having an e-mail address.
OC: "I don't have e-mail. But I do have G-mail, will that work?"
What if it really was The Rapture yesterday, but just nobody qualified?
Mmmmm... canned fishes! <3
