Judd Geeks Out

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…

I wanted the seasons to show that our campaign is leaning more heavily towards Weird Fiction, Rifts and Thundarr than Mad Max and so the seasons are called Ash, Ghost and Storm. TNAWBO SeasonsDownload https://githyankidiaspora.com/apocalypse-world-burned-over-l-e-o-index/ If you would like to get an email notification when blog posts are published, please subscribe below: Email…

I posted questions in the group chat. Teo’s Undaunted, San Rio – how did his wife die? What is he noticing about his children growing up in these lands? Drew’s Bloody Sword, who taught him the art of the blade? B’s Feral Born, how did they learn spells? Which spells? Did they leave home? Restless? Spooked by the ocean? Anthony’s Quarantine – why did they get frozen? Do they remember? What…

Mustering Out Blues by Bill WhiteYou’ve spent your entire adult life so far under the orders of the Imperium, but that’s over now. You’ve left the service and you’re on your own. You’ve mustered out, chum! All the worlds in Known Space are waiting out there for you, but you’ve got bills to pay, burdens to carry, and no sure path to follow. You can feel how little time you’ve got left to make it…

I’ve been enjoying Sean Foer’s videos as the algorithm fed them to me on various social media areas and I’m glad to see them on youtube. Here are Sean’s Links and here are a few of my favorites: Love seeing Under Hollow Hills get its flowers. About to start up an Apocalypse World game on Thursday and it has been our face to face game for a while now, so I love seeing something about Love…

There is a new piece of tech in Apocalypse World: Burned Over called the gamechanger, a rule that unlocks late in the game based on player choices during character advancement. There are great examples in the rules & refsheets PDF (they’ve been in burned over since I can remember), with everything from in-game giant mechs being unleashed into the world, a doorway to another world opening, to…

For the past 6 years, the Thursday Night Delving Club has been game every step of the way, trying just about every bizarre idea I toss on the table and playing it all to the hilt. Trophy Gold when the whole system fit on half a dozen pages, Five Torches Deep, 5e, Godbound, Burning Wheel, Old School Essentials, Band of Blades, Classic Traveller, Liminal Horror and Cairn. We’ve flown pterodactyls…

I made a list of of a few GM advice subreddits called RefAdvice. r/OSR HELP and r/DnD DMing Underground Keep run by a civilization of ghouls byu/NormalPenalty5754 inDMAcademy Comment byu/NormalPenalty5754 from discussion inDMAcademy https://www.patreon.com/c/evlynmoreau/posts I'm trying to create an immersive lore from scratch but I'm a little overwhelmed, where do I start?…

It was just me and Pete tonight and that was lovely. I got the invites out a bit late for this session. There might be someone other than Pete who I’ve played more amazing hours of gaming in the past couple of decades but probably not. I rolled a Discovery for their first encounter and after that I rolled Environmental issues for the rest of the session. They got lucky and found a family…

Was thinking about last week’s game. There was a moment when they came to this hallway with statues. 6 statues. Huh. Forgotten Cairns 8: Dragonslayers on Moonshae I had already narrated some 5-headed Tiamat details in an earlier room and wanted to continue to reinforce them. Jesse had his Lizard-folk hunter, Sssrska, mar the Black Dragon heads. But this was 6 statues. Pattern break. I said that…

A normal Friday night – took a lovely nap with the window open and then thought about Thursday’s game and putting together information on the territories of dragons on the Sword Coast of Faerûn. I was grateful to find that much work had already been done on this. I based most of the below on work done here: Dragons of Faerûn Dragon frame used to make out territories by Art SilverGlass Sophie…

I made a list of of a few GM advice subreddits called RefAdvice. r/OSR HELP and r/DnD DMing One hell of a wish byu/Equivalent_Macaron_0 inDMAcademy Magic doesn’t have to be yes/no. It can be messy and complicated and fun. It can cause adventure, especially when an arcane practitioner over-reaches. Comment byu/Equivalent_Macaron_0 from discussion…

We hadn’t played in a while and it was a fairly rare night that all 6 of us were able to game. We started right in the lair, loving the Dyson Logos map as usual. We were overplanning a bit in past sessions, so I said we’d jump in and use flashbacks as needed. If someone wanted something really far out I’d say they could spend Hit Protection to make it happen but that wasn’t necessary. Shit,…

After a few weeks of cancelled games because of life-stuff on my end, I was beyond thrilled to get a game in last night. So thrilled, in fact, that I had no idea what to do once it was clear Tom and Jenn could actually game. While we were catching up I looked over the notes from last game and I remembered something about the restless dead lord, Alder Brightflame and the neighboring Fishacre…