Last night, my Thursday night group got together for A Very Holiday Dungeon World Special. It’s a one-shot adventure (really 2-shot…. we started super late, plus there was the fire), which I wrote as an homage to holiday adventures. We started with character creation and bonds. Our characters for the evening: Alanna – a female […]
The Family that Games Together
I visited my sister in Missouri this weekend for her wedding. In addition to some knitting, a library book, and some board games, I brought my Nook, loaded up with books and RPGs. Thursday night, my niece (age 11) wanted to “play D&D.” Well, I didn’t have D&D with me, but Niece doesn’t really know […]
Cliches and Icons, Part 2
So, there we were, knee-deep (waist deep for halflings) in gelatinous cube! And suddenly, as we tried to run away, it shlooped up itself into a cube and started advancing on us! In the distance, we saw another cube form– two of them! We attacked one of the cubes, slowing it down, but we were […]
Cliches and Icons, Part I
Last night, my Tuesday night game did a sidestep into Dungeon World. We decided a couple of weeks ago on our characters: Vorrak, the dwarven fighter Wesley, the human cleric Torendil, the elven wizard Mouse, the halfling thief Our GM, Tyler, is running DW for the first time, but he was giggling madly over the […]
Living Dungeon World – Session 1
Yesterday, I ran my first attempt at Living Dungeon World, a shared-world organized play kind of campaign in which the DMs share the fronts and setting. It’s similar to Living Forgotten Realms and Pathfinder Society and similar organized play campaigns. Except, for LDW, there isn’t an overarching organization, and we’re really just starting to try […]