Last night was very interesting and very entertaining, at least from my vantage as the Referee. We were playing a game of Swords & Wizardry, one of the recently published free 0E clones of the original fantasy RPG. So, what made it interesting? Tomb of the Iron God We were playing the introductory adventure for … Read More →
Category Archives: Fantasy
Swords & Wizardry Taran Edition
Next week we’ve agreed, as it’s the holidays and Queen’s Jubilee and all that, to run a one-off trial game of Swords & Wizardry. The thing is that, seeing as I am GMing, I couldn’t resist taking the adventure that’s being planned and sticking it into the Tal’Daryn setting… aka the second face of Taran, … Read More →
Old-School Gaming
Have you read Matthew Finch’s “Quick Primer for Old School Gaming“? If not then I’d seriously recommend it. Old School? A weird thing happened over the past couple of weeks since my last article. The more I imagine Taran, the more I am drawn into a mood and feeling that I associate with my first … Read More →
Building A Fantasy, Part 1
Taran Awakens… It doesn’t matter how much I try to push this idea away, it haunts my dreams and gaming. Having had a couple of people express a small amount of interest in Taran, the fantasy world built upon twelve faces of a massive dodecahedron (think “d12”), it’s time to really start to develop some … Read More →
