Day 30 of the 30 Day D&D Challenge

Day 30: Best DM everrrrr That's rather tricky, is it not? After all, on the off chance that any of the people I have gamed with care to look at this bleat into the aether, I don't wish to insult them either by omission or by specific reference. I never met Gary Gygax. We lived...

Day 29 of the 30 Day D&D Challenge

Day 26 - rolls most often on the d20 Despite being pretty superstitious in general, I have no fear of dice at all. Never have. Command them, I say, and they will do what you want. Be afraid of them, and they will punish you. You can see this when you are around the table...

Day 28 of the 30 Day D&D Challenge

Day 28: Character I will never play again Another trick question. I will never ever again play all those characters that met their deaths in the line of duty, representing my ego in fantasy worlds. There was Gerard, a half-elf and a wanker that died unmourned in some leaky-roofed garret. There was Metro, who died...

Day 27 of the 30 Day D&D Challenge

Day 27: Character I want to play in the future Well call me a boring old wordsmith, but isn't this the same as Day 9? A Judge, in a classical Chinese setting. A Chinese Medieval Judge Dredd. This setting has a well established civilisation under the control of a centralised bureaucracy. Regions can be far flung...

Day 26 of the D&D Challenge

Day 26: favourite non-magical artefact This covers a multitude of sins, doesn't it? Can it mean dry socks, a well made comb that can get nits out of hair, or are we just talking about the sword that is jagged so that it causes more severe wounds in an entirely conventional way? My role playing...

Day 25 of the 30 Day D&D Challenge

Day 25: Favourite magical item Long ago, long before Assassin's Creed, Craig and I devised, sought after and ultimately each failed to secure in each other's game worlds The Electronux of Alastair. Basically it was a powered Cestus. Just the one, for one hand. I mentally designed mine to have a number of tuning parameters...

Days 15 to 23 of the 30 Day D&D Challenge

This whole monster classification thing is something that means nothing to me. I have nothing to say. However, it has spawned the thought of the Monster Alphabet, and this is something that I will talk about in other posts. Prost!

Day 14 of the 30 Day D&D Challenge

Day 14: Favourite NPC I'm interpreting this as recurring NPC foes, though I guess if you had a recurring NPC in the party to round out an undersized playing group... Anyway, most of the games I have played in living memory (the campaigns of my distant youth are only vague memories now and I cannot...

Day 13 of the D&D 30 Day Challenge

Day 13: Favourite trap I've always loved traps. Intelligent, complex traps are fascinating and provide fantastic opportunities to role play out solutions. If your style of play is, "I search for traps (rolls 20), do I find any?" then they are probably no more than speed humps. But if you play a more conversational style...

Day 12 of the D&D 30 Day Challenge

Day 12: Favourite location This one is fairly easy. I like outdoor role-playing activities, and this seems to put me at odds with a lot of the mainstream. For me, the 'getting there' is not only just as important as the dungeon at the end. I actually find it more interesting. A dungeon is just...