I recently got a copy of The Artifact in the Itch "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality". This is a text log of my (first?) playthrough, so spoilers are likely. CONTENT WARNING: disturbing imagery, gore. Day 1 Yesterday, I received a donation of a new artifact, which was assigned the reference number #734654 in our ..read more

I've been playing a lot more solo sessions, and I didn't want to clog this place up. Plus, I just wanted to experiment with something different. Photo by lalesh aldarwish on Pexels.com So in April, my spinoff blog Solo Skald launched. So far, I've played campaigns of Blades in the Dark as well as Scum ..read more

Because I wanted to keep trying solo dungeon runs separately from some urban adventure, I rolled up a character specifically for delving and finding gold. In the Red Tide setting, the stereotypical dwarven lust for gold is explained by their "religion" or at least their metaphysical views about using it in the afterlife to attack a goddess ..read more

This represents my first session with Ironsworn. Looking over it now, I can see a few missed opportunities and mistakes. But as a learning experience, I enjoyed it quite a bit! The layout here gave me a little trouble here, but I expect the next session to go a little more smoothly in both play ..read more

When I was a kid, seeing a movie meant more than just a couple of hours of entertainment. It meant hours or maybe days of material for playing "make-believe" or "pretend". After The Goonies or Return of the Jedi or anything else I liked, the ideas and characters and settings and themes would inform my ..read more

I finally spent some time playing Scarlet Heroes, the old-school D&D-alike from Sine Nomine Publishing and Kevin Crawford. Unusual for these sorts of games, Scarlet Heroes focuses on very small parties (one or two characters) and even provides support for solo play where the GM is also the player. The system supports existing D&D material with one or two ..read more