First time to this blog? Here’s what I’d recommend checking out if you’re not wanting to just click through every post one by one. Homebrew rules: Check out my work-in-progress changes to Spelljammer 5e’s ship combat and crew economy: Spelljammer 5e Rules Modifications (WIP) Actual play session recaps: Spelljammer 5e is the ongoing game I’m…
Solo Play – Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Beginner Game
Over the Christmas break, I finally got out the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Beginner Game and took its adventure on a solo play run. I love Star Wars. At the time, I was wrapping up a read of Stackpole’s X-Wing: Wedge’s Gamble. I also really like Genesys, having run a play-by-post in the Android…
First experience of AoF Skirmish
While I continue to work through creating 150pt beginner lists for One Page Rule’s Age of Fantasy – Skirmish format, I’ve also been putting units through my printer. I couldn’t help myself, so this obviously meant starting with Dwarves. Then, I wanted to print a list that I already had models for thanks to the…
AoF: Skirmish – 150pt beginner lists
I’m new to One Page Rules. I’m still learning the ins and outs. This may not be the strongest way to start a blog post, but I’m frankly making this post because I haven’t had much luck finding a better one that serves its purpose. And what is that purpose? To create and share a…
Session 9-3-2025 – After-Action Report
It happened. The party died. For anyone curious about how that happened narratively, the party returned to the dungeon, lit torches, and beelined for where they encountered the Scarlet Minotaur before. No longer there, they continued checking the room, then opted to leave the room in the direction they could hear a faint breeze. Winding…
Session 8-11-25
This turned out a lot more storytelling than recap than I think I want to do in the future. I’ll probably look for something that’s a middle ground between bullet point notes about rolls and things that happen and this full-conversations approach. Still, I wrote it up to build out what’s happening, so it’d be…
Catch up to 8-11-25
My first couple of sessions had note-taking done on various pieces of paper with limited amounts of narration recorded. As I move to keeping all of my notes (both session recaps and world details) in Obsidian, I decided to do a catch up document that brings those notes into a starting point. While I’ll put…
First experiences in solo play
I’ve finally done the thing. I pushed through my concerns about a stigma of solo play that I had in my head, a stigma other would-be solo players I know share, and finally tried out solo play of an RPG. I’m glad I did. I’ve played or run D&D in a variety of formats. There’s…
Rolling a World
In a recent post, I made my first pass at World Map Generation Tables. Over the last day or two, I finally put in time to get out some paper and roll some dice. I figure I’ll document that process a little for anyone who’s unfamiliar with this method of random map generation. First thing,…
World Map Generation Tables
I love random/procedural map generation. Heck, I built some frameworks for roguelike dungeon generation as a means of learning new programming languages when I started college 20ish years ago. It’s great fun to let procedures and randomness decide what an area looks like and is populated with. There lots of ways to do this, but…
Regarding that new Dungeon Master’s Guide
It wasn’t that long ago that the controversy of the day in Twitter/X TTRPG space was certain high profile influencers having not read the (5e 2014) Dungeon Master’s Guide. I don’t think there’s a great need to rehash that, but one comment that came out a bit, that I found pretty understandable, was that the…