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Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #2

As my slew of prior posts might indicate, I’ve been spending some time thinking about our upcoming Diaspora campaign…In particular the opening scene. The characters naturally started in two different...

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Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #4

Taking the excellent advice of the gentlemen that wrote Diaspora, I opted to create a character in the campaign:  Billy Sadan, a gun happy former agent of New Florida.  This upcoming session, Joe is...

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Planning Diaspora: The Precious Few, Session #5

Well this is no good.  I’m about an hour and a half away from running The Precious Few campaign.  The last session, which we played more than a month ago, found the crew of The Precious in New Florida....

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A Bizarre Ritual of Mine

I wish I was more organized with my note taking, preparation, and storage of character sheets. I don’t believe Matt has forgiven me for losing one of his characters – alas poor Spike X, we barely knew...

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Back on the Gaming Treadmill (maybe)

It would appear that running a lengthy session of Dungeon World for a table of five was great for a few reasons: First, the dwarven judiciary is only slightly less terrifying than the dwarven actuarial...

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Burning Sanctuary – Session 1

We met for our second session of Burning Sanctuary. Some of the players had not completed their beliefs. So we spent some time finalizing both characters and a bit of the world. This took about an hour...

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The Rise (and Fall) of Session 0

I’ve seen an uptick in Session 0 rules for RPGs. And their usage. The general idea is that before you play your first session, you have a collaborative session to prepare for the game. You do a little...

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Random Tables to Help Preparation for the Unexpected

At the end of my last DCC session, we left off with the players saying “We are leaving the village in the morning.” I’m not entirely certain where they are going. They have two similar looking maps...

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Preparation for Session 2 of DCC Better World Gaming

Between the 0-level funnel of Nebin Pendlebrook’s Perilous Pantry and the first session of Doom of the Savage Kings, I did some preparation. I didn’t publish this as I didn’t want to tip my hand. I...

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Guess Who’s Coming to Bitterweed Barrow?

Since our first session at Better World Books – Goshen, players have tested their mettle through four 0-level character funnels. Nebin Pendlebrook’s Perilous Pantry The Ruins of Ramat Portal Under the...

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