Judd Geeks Out

I’ve had Beak, Feather & Bone along with the Claw Atlas on my to-play shelf for a while now. I was going to use it as an icebreaker for a work meeting but never did; I felt like I needed to play it once. Yay, I’ve played it once and it was delightful. The same dear friend from out of town who played The Waking of Willowby Hall via Cairn with us last night sat down after brunch and made a city…

Once upon a time a Mountebank and a Beast Tamer walked into a slumbering but haunted house… An old and dear friend was visiting from out of town and so I left some gaming books out in case we wanted to do some gaming. We did. While I was taking care of some family business, Janaki and Mike made up Cairn characters. "We're thinking something whimsical.""I've got the haunted house adventure, The…

I made a list of of a few GM advice subreddits called RefAdvice. r/OSR HELP and r/DnD DMing How would you run something like a Boxing match? https://www.reddit.com/r/DMAcademy/s/n8vgoVMEgL Comment byu/Sebby314 from discussion inDMAcademy https://www.patreon.com/c/evlynmoreau/posts The thread was deleted, which is a damned shame. The OP was talking about feeling overwhelmed at the prospect…

Previous Session: S5 LINK HERE The Dreamers’ Cloisters is where retired Fishwives spend their last days. Otter met with her ma and I loved that relationship. Her mother urged her to become what she was to become and take hold of her destiny (worth noting, Otter is a Feralborn playbook, a kind of tweener starter playbook and is due to pick what she will become). Taylor, the Standout, became a…

“…and that Lankhmar, after all is said and done, is an only slightly more fantastical Manhattan…”Howard Chaykin, Introduction to Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser Omnibus From the AW 3rd Edition Rules and Ref SheetsChoose two of the following:• The Scorched Wastes.• The Poisoned Land.• The Overgrown Wilds.• The Frozen World.• The Fallen City.• The Drowned City.• The Bottomless Vaults.• A…

Tarnish’s player, Drew, couldn’t make it this week so we decided that Teo, who plays Rio, would instead play a riverboat captain from Lock using the Standout playbook. Previous Session: S4 LINK HERE Teo’s new character, Taylor, Quint and Otter got on their flat-bottomed riverboat and took off after the teens. We used the vehicle rules for an uninspired river-chase. Maybe it is from growing up a…

Pre-writing the intro is a fun way to touch base with the crew and the game, like the Star Wars text crawl… Previous Session: S3 LINK HERE Something that might not have come through in writing about the past 3 games is that there hasn’t been a dice-result lower than 8. So, when Rio wanted to better understand Alhazared’s relationship to his parents back on the Isle of the Fishwives, he used…

The Pitch: You walk out of Ironhook in the suit you got arrested in, your old crew is spread hither and yon all over Doskvol’s factions. Your starting situation is a Crew sheet. The thing you know walking out alone is that you cannot survive alone in Doskvol. Another way to say it: What if someone went into Ironhook for a decade and when they came out, all of the Deep Cuts factions and tech…

I made a list of of a few GM advice subreddits called RefAdvice. r/OSR HELP and r/DnD DMing Can I get help with worldbuilding?by u/TraditionalBudget668 in DnD Judd tries to distill everything he has learned from Burning Wheel, Apocalypse World, Sorcerer and the other decades of gaming in a few sentences, take 317. Comment byu/TraditionalBudget668 from discussion…

Blessed be the Dreamer, may the dreamers never wake. – Traditional Isle Greeting Dear Thursday Night Delving Club Members, You might not want to read about the prep in the blog post below. If you’d like a player-safe version of the PDF, let me know. Or not, it might not be a big deal at all but the surprise of what will happen when the Isle of the Fishwives’ clock ticks away might be more fun…

I made a list of of a few GM advice subreddits called RefAdvice. r/OSR HELP and r/DnD DMing Opinions on running Strahd vs. Frostmaiden?by u/TacticianRobin in DMAcademy Huh, threads aren’t embedding into the blog anymore. The comments are but the threads are not. Odd. Anyway, love the idea of mashing modules together and making a mess. Comment byu/TacticianRobin from discussion…

I tried something different, not only with the chat questions early in the week before the game but I decided to write out the intro to the next session. Maybe it made it easier to jump into the session. Maybe? It was a fun exercise and didn’t take long. Previous Session: S2 LINK HERE The 13 year old otherworldly kid, Al, from the Isle of the Fishwives (more on that place in another post),…

I made a list of of a few GM advice subreddits called RefAdvice. r/OSR HELP and r/DnD DMing My descriptions are a bit lack luster- any advice? byu/Tobias_reaper_47 inDMAcademy Comment byu/Tobias_reaper_47 from discussion inDMAcademy https://www.patreon.com/c/evlynmoreau/posts It was a question about how to get started with RPG’s but it was deleted. Anyway, here’s my answer on that particular…

Previous Session: S1 Harbortown Peace Talks Life intervened and we had another short 1 hour-and-a-bit session tonight but AW moves fast and we got a ton finished. Moves hit the table: Backing Someone’s Play, Expose Your Mind to the Howling Sorcerous Winds, Attack Someone, Demanding Something and of course all of the Ending the Session moves. Tarnish the Bloody Sword’s Port of Call established…

“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips (I think) In Apocalypse World: Burned Over there is a mechanic called a Gamechanger, in which something is unlocked that alters the game entirely. Examples from the book include, giant robots, doorways to other worlds, and rotating MC’s. The Tower is inspired by an idea I’ve been…

Previous Session, 0.1 Otter the Feralbornsalty, weathered, taciturnfrom the Stormsea “On the verge of becoming a Maine lobster grandma…” Quint the VolatileimperturbableHeavy flamethrower on his back “The Good, The Bad & and the Ugly…he’s the Ugly…” San Rio the UndauntedNondescript but his children:Ula – brazen and fearless (like her mother)Mice – smiling, full of laughterJammer – touched…