Greetings friends! Good to see you all again on this side of the new year. Let's hope this will be a really good year for all!
Recently, I got involved in a D&D 3.5 game which has its basis in a fantasy version of the Chinese story Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I don't think we are trying to faithfully follow the story, mind you. It is more the setting we are using, with some minor tweaks. Never the less, it looks like a very interesting setting and I think we will be in for a fun ride! :)
Anyway, we are using the Oriental Adventures books for it, and I am playing a female Shugenja character. A class which I have never played before. We've only had one session of it so far, which ended up being roughly 6 hours long. I have to say that for that session at least, I was really enjoying playing a Shugenja!
At the start of the session we had our first battle. My Shugenja had a bit of a difficult time noticing what was going down though, because of some really bad dice rolling. Eventually though, she noticed something and went downstairs to see what was going on. Now, before the session I wasn't sure how I was going to enjoy playing a Shugenja. But once we got the session going and I got into my first combat, I felt much better about it. Her beam-type attacks and the flaming sphere really showed me she could be fun to work with. I do think though, that she will be better against several enemies rather than targeting a single enemy. We shall see though. She also has some out of combat utility spells that I am hoping she will find uses for. Though that will depend on what kind of game it evolves into being. If it is a game that focuses a lot on combat I might not be able to 'waste' the spell uses outside of combat, in which case I might have to re-build her a bit. But we shall see how it goes.
I think I will have a lot of fun with the character, though I am still trying to figure out her personality and such, and I need to get around to actually writing down a backstory for her. So far, all I know for certain is really that she is 20 years old, she's from Japan, she's a Shugenja, and she is nobility. She is also travelling with two other characters, one PC and an NPC, both of which are Samurai. I'll see if I can return with a better description of her here on the blog once I have her more fleshed out as a character.
Anyway, that will be all for me for this time.
Until next we meet, somewhere in the tabletop multiverse!
lördag 7 januari 2017
tisdag 20 december 2016
A sign of life
Greetings all!
A quick little post to note that I have in fact not been kidnapped by aliens, nor have I lost my way in some deep dark dungeon looking for loot. The reasons for my absence are, in fact, a tad more mundane in nature. See it is Christmas time in this household, and IRL things combined with work, has kept me busy. I will return with new updates and articles in here in due time.
Until I do, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, or a very happy whatever else you might be celebrating instead, and I will see you all again soon!
Take care, and be kind to each other.
Until next time!
A quick little post to note that I have in fact not been kidnapped by aliens, nor have I lost my way in some deep dark dungeon looking for loot. The reasons for my absence are, in fact, a tad more mundane in nature. See it is Christmas time in this household, and IRL things combined with work, has kept me busy. I will return with new updates and articles in here in due time.
Until I do, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, or a very happy whatever else you might be celebrating instead, and I will see you all again soon!
Take care, and be kind to each other.
Until next time!
tisdag 6 december 2016
Shiantiara RPG is up on Kickstarter
Greetings fellow travelers of the tabletop multiverse!
This time of year is a busy time for me, so updates have been a bit scarcer than I would have liked.
Let us talk today about a Kickstarter I recently found. It is for a tabletop roleplaying game called Shintiara.
The story is quite interesting. Shintiara is a planet trapped between a black hole and a star, and the actions of the players will help determine the destiny of the planet. Will it be swallowed by the black hole, or will the star keep it from its ultimate demise? The constant struggle between the black hole and the star causes time paradoxes to appear frequently on Shintiara, with the future and past constantly mixing. The game also appears to have a mix of magic and technology, often intertwined and co-existing and even working as one on many occasions.
The Kickstarter has 39 days left to go at the time of writing this article, and they have so far reached 3,730 euro out of an asked 5,000 euro.
Go check out the Kickstarter and if you like it give it a pledge. :)
Until next time!
This time of year is a busy time for me, so updates have been a bit scarcer than I would have liked.
Let us talk today about a Kickstarter I recently found. It is for a tabletop roleplaying game called Shintiara.
The story is quite interesting. Shintiara is a planet trapped between a black hole and a star, and the actions of the players will help determine the destiny of the planet. Will it be swallowed by the black hole, or will the star keep it from its ultimate demise? The constant struggle between the black hole and the star causes time paradoxes to appear frequently on Shintiara, with the future and past constantly mixing. The game also appears to have a mix of magic and technology, often intertwined and co-existing and even working as one on many occasions.
The Kickstarter has 39 days left to go at the time of writing this article, and they have so far reached 3,730 euro out of an asked 5,000 euro.
Go check out the Kickstarter and if you like it give it a pledge. :)
Until next time!
torsdag 24 november 2016
Kickstarter for new Pathfinder adventure book
Greetings from the Tabletop Multiverse!
There is a new adventure up on Kickstarter for Pathfinder. It is called "The Crossing" and is the third book in the "Return to the Fey" adventure path for the "Dark Return" setting. It is made for 4-6 players using lvl 3-4 characters, so it is a pretty low-level adventure, but if you don't mind that, or if you are new to the game, it is as good a place as any to start.
Here is a link to the Kickstarter page. Go take a look at it if you are interested.
Until next time!
There is a new adventure up on Kickstarter for Pathfinder. It is called "The Crossing" and is the third book in the "Return to the Fey" adventure path for the "Dark Return" setting. It is made for 4-6 players using lvl 3-4 characters, so it is a pretty low-level adventure, but if you don't mind that, or if you are new to the game, it is as good a place as any to start.
Here is a link to the Kickstarter page. Go take a look at it if you are interested.
Until next time!
onsdag 16 november 2016
Progress
Greetings fellow citizens of the Multiverse!
Again, sadly, IRL stuff has taken hold of my time and I have been unable to write in here as often as I might have liked.
I have been getting some stuff done though. I have FINALLY been able to make a map that I am half-way decently satisfied with for my world-building project. It is a map of the northern-most continent, and I am very happy to have it mostly done. I am still tweaking it and changing bits and pieces here and there, but the general lay-out of it should be ok. I've been wanting to have these maps done for quite some time now as I feel that they (this map and other ones I have in the pipeline) will help me visualize the world more clearly. It is one thing having a bunch of pages of written text, but once you see it come alive on a map it really helps bring it all to life. At least for me it does. Also the maps help me to keep track of things.
As the eagle-eyed reader might have noticed, yes, that means I have been spending time learning to use Campaign Cartographer 3+. It and I are slowly coming to an understanding. It still has a few things about it that annoys me from time to time, but then again no program can do everything. And honestly, half the times it is probably (it is) I who have done something wrong and the program is simply doing what I just told it to do.
Overall I would say that CC3+ is a very good program for map-making. I do think I will need to sink some more money into it in the long-run if I want to be able to make all the maps properly that I want to make. Though that is for later.
On the world-building front there has also been a bit of writing done. Not as much as I would have liked perhaps, but then again a lot of that time has gone into the map-making instead, so I guess it is for a good cause.
I really can't wait for the time when I have the world at such a stage that I can try playing some kind of tabletop RPG in it with friends. :) Which tabletop RPG that might be though, I haven't got a clue yet. I might even end up running with the home-made rule-set I have been working on. In a way, I am kind of hoping that I can do that. It would be fun to try out a rule-set that has actually been made for that world. But we shall see.
Time for me to sign off for now.
Until next time!
Again, sadly, IRL stuff has taken hold of my time and I have been unable to write in here as often as I might have liked.
I have been getting some stuff done though. I have FINALLY been able to make a map that I am half-way decently satisfied with for my world-building project. It is a map of the northern-most continent, and I am very happy to have it mostly done. I am still tweaking it and changing bits and pieces here and there, but the general lay-out of it should be ok. I've been wanting to have these maps done for quite some time now as I feel that they (this map and other ones I have in the pipeline) will help me visualize the world more clearly. It is one thing having a bunch of pages of written text, but once you see it come alive on a map it really helps bring it all to life. At least for me it does. Also the maps help me to keep track of things.
As the eagle-eyed reader might have noticed, yes, that means I have been spending time learning to use Campaign Cartographer 3+. It and I are slowly coming to an understanding. It still has a few things about it that annoys me from time to time, but then again no program can do everything. And honestly, half the times it is probably (it is) I who have done something wrong and the program is simply doing what I just told it to do.
Overall I would say that CC3+ is a very good program for map-making. I do think I will need to sink some more money into it in the long-run if I want to be able to make all the maps properly that I want to make. Though that is for later.
On the world-building front there has also been a bit of writing done. Not as much as I would have liked perhaps, but then again a lot of that time has gone into the map-making instead, so I guess it is for a good cause.
I really can't wait for the time when I have the world at such a stage that I can try playing some kind of tabletop RPG in it with friends. :) Which tabletop RPG that might be though, I haven't got a clue yet. I might even end up running with the home-made rule-set I have been working on. In a way, I am kind of hoping that I can do that. It would be fun to try out a rule-set that has actually been made for that world. But we shall see.
Time for me to sign off for now.
Until next time!
fredag 11 november 2016
D&D inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame
Greetings everyone, from somewhere in the Tabletop Multiverse we call home.
It's been a few days since my last post. This has mainly been the result of a very busy IRL schedule and not having the energy to write posts. Hopefully this will turn around shortly.
Today's post will probably be a short one, but it will be a good one. I think. Hope.... I'll just leave that decision to you guys.
Dungeons & Dragons, the tabletop role playing game that we all love, have been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Yeah, I hadn't heard of the NTHoF before either. Nevertheless, D&D is one of 62 toys inducted this year. It has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1974, at the hands of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. It has grown quite a bit since then and is today perhaps the most famous and well-known tabletop RPG on the market.
A bit of research (Wikipedia artice) on the National Toy Hall of Fame, tells me that it is based in the U.S. and was established in 1998. The wikipedia article says that:
If you haven't checked out D&D yet, I strongly suggest you do so. It might be a bit tricky picking which version to start with, as it is currently on it's 5th edition, but if you are having trouble deciding I would probably suggest starting with 5th edition as it is the latest one and you might have the easiest time getting the books for it, and you are also more likely to find people online who can help you out.
Again, a big contratulations to Wizards of the Coast on the induction of D&D into the National Toy Hall of Fame. It is always nice to see a game that has meant so much to so many people, for such a long time, get a recognition such as that. :)
Until next time!
It's been a few days since my last post. This has mainly been the result of a very busy IRL schedule and not having the energy to write posts. Hopefully this will turn around shortly.
Today's post will probably be a short one, but it will be a good one. I think. Hope.... I'll just leave that decision to you guys.
Dungeons & Dragons, the tabletop role playing game that we all love, have been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Yeah, I hadn't heard of the NTHoF before either. Nevertheless, D&D is one of 62 toys inducted this year. It has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1974, at the hands of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. It has grown quite a bit since then and is today perhaps the most famous and well-known tabletop RPG on the market.
A bit of research (Wikipedia artice) on the National Toy Hall of Fame, tells me that it is based in the U.S. and was established in 1998. The wikipedia article says that:
"...recognizes the contributions of toys and games that have sustained their popularity for many years. Criteria for induction include: icon status (the toy is widely recognized, respected, and remembered); longevity (more than a passing fad); discovery (fosters learning, creativity, or discovery); and innovation (profoundly changed play or toy design)"I would definitely say that Dungeons & Dragons more than meets all those criteria.
If you haven't checked out D&D yet, I strongly suggest you do so. It might be a bit tricky picking which version to start with, as it is currently on it's 5th edition, but if you are having trouble deciding I would probably suggest starting with 5th edition as it is the latest one and you might have the easiest time getting the books for it, and you are also more likely to find people online who can help you out.
Again, a big contratulations to Wizards of the Coast on the induction of D&D into the National Toy Hall of Fame. It is always nice to see a game that has meant so much to so many people, for such a long time, get a recognition such as that. :)
Until next time!
tisdag 1 november 2016
The Earth Brewery - new Kickstarter from Dicey Ventures Studios
Greetings from the vast expanses of the Tabletop Multiverse, fellow travelers!
Recently I found out that the good folks at Dicey Ventures Studios are planning a Kickstarter for their latest 3D printed tabletop terrain model, so I figured I would give them a hand and help spread the word.
As a little background, I first ran into Dicey Ventures Studios via their Twitter account, and from what I have seen of their work since they seem to be really good at what they do. They also seem like nice people, which is always a plus.
Their latest venture then is what they call their Elemental Village, which consists of stylized, 3D printed tabletop terrain models, that can be used for wargaming as well as adventure gaming.
Sounds neat, doesn't it? That's straight from their website.
So, what about this upcoming Kickstarter then? Well, it is for a model in the Elemental Village model-series, called the "Earth Brewery". You might be interested to find that they actually held a poll on their website for what model to make next, and this was the winning result! They also held a coloring contest for it among their followers, and picked a winner. Gotta love it when a company is listening to their community and lets them get involved. :)
They've held a Kickstarter before, for their Venture Dice Bags in 2015, which was successfully funded. I'm hoping they will have the same luck this time, because the brewery looks great!
The brewery will be sold as 28 mm, 3D printed models, rather than made using resin. As I understand it, by pledging at the Kickstarter you will be able to get the STL file and 3D print it yourself - provided you have access to a 3D printer, of course - or you can ask Dicey Ventures Studios to print it for you.
Having been in contact with them, they sent me the following key points regarding the Earth Brewery and the Kickstarter:
I like the fact that "All Core Elemental Village Models Available as Physical Add-ons" as you can see in the image below. Among them you can also find the Water Dwelling that they mentioned in the quoted list above.
The Kickstarter for the Earth Brewery goes live at 11 am EST today, November 1st, if I understood it correctly. I'm looking forward to checking it out once it is live. I am hopeful that they will do well, because it is a really nice looking product they have there. Also it is always nice when a smaller studio does well for themselves. :)
There is also a video up on Facebook of someone unboxing the Earth Brewery model. It can be found right here for anyone interested.
So feel free to go check it out and if you like what you see give them a pledge. The Kickstarter hasn't started up yet at the time of writing this, but I will keep my eyes open for when it does. If you want to you can also go check out their website. Links can be found earlier in the text.
Until next time, my fellow travellers!
Recently I found out that the good folks at Dicey Ventures Studios are planning a Kickstarter for their latest 3D printed tabletop terrain model, so I figured I would give them a hand and help spread the word.
As a little background, I first ran into Dicey Ventures Studios via their Twitter account, and from what I have seen of their work since they seem to be really good at what they do. They also seem like nice people, which is always a plus.
Their latest venture then is what they call their Elemental Village, which consists of stylized, 3D printed tabletop terrain models, that can be used for wargaming as well as adventure gaming.
The Elemental Village is a set of 28mm fantasy terrain that is designed to be used with and for any tabletop wargame or adventure game. Fantastically crafted by expert goblins, these one of a kind Chibi inspired tabletop terrain pieces will ornament your gameplay in a way that cannot be found anywhere else. Each Digital Element Pack comes with STL Files, Print & Color Guides to help you along the way.
Sounds neat, doesn't it? That's straight from their website.
So, what about this upcoming Kickstarter then? Well, it is for a model in the Elemental Village model-series, called the "Earth Brewery". You might be interested to find that they actually held a poll on their website for what model to make next, and this was the winning result! They also held a coloring contest for it among their followers, and picked a winner. Gotta love it when a company is listening to their community and lets them get involved. :)
They've held a Kickstarter before, for their Venture Dice Bags in 2015, which was successfully funded. I'm hoping they will have the same luck this time, because the brewery looks great!
The brewery will be sold as 28 mm, 3D printed models, rather than made using resin. As I understand it, by pledging at the Kickstarter you will be able to get the STL file and 3D print it yourself - provided you have access to a 3D printer, of course - or you can ask Dicey Ventures Studios to print it for you.
Having been in contact with them, they sent me the following key points regarding the Earth Brewery and the Kickstarter:
*Expansion to the Elemental Village Core Set, joining the Earth Tavern and Dwelling
*3D printed model
*$20 price point for physical model, $10 for STL 3D printing file
*Yuletide Brewery pledge level offering December 2016 shipping, in time for the holidays!
*Other shipping waves with January and February 2017 fulfillment
We’ll Print It For You-
*All Core Elemental Village Models Available as Physical Add-ons
*Price range of $8-$30 per model
*Day 1 stretch goal-If the Earth Brewery campaign reaches $1000 in the first 24 hours, all backers who pledge for the Brewery will receive a free Water Dwelling!
I like the fact that "All Core Elemental Village Models Available as Physical Add-ons" as you can see in the image below. Among them you can also find the Water Dwelling that they mentioned in the quoted list above.
The Kickstarter for the Earth Brewery goes live at 11 am EST today, November 1st, if I understood it correctly. I'm looking forward to checking it out once it is live. I am hopeful that they will do well, because it is a really nice looking product they have there. Also it is always nice when a smaller studio does well for themselves. :)
There is also a video up on Facebook of someone unboxing the Earth Brewery model. It can be found right here for anyone interested.
So feel free to go check it out and if you like what you see give them a pledge. The Kickstarter hasn't started up yet at the time of writing this, but I will keep my eyes open for when it does. If you want to you can also go check out their website. Links can be found earlier in the text.
Until next time, my fellow travellers!
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