Last night we had our first full session using the Dungeons & Dragons (5e) Player’s Handbook – in other words, we’ve properly converted our existing Tikhon campaign to the newest edition of D&D. More momentous, at least from the DM’s chair, was my full return to dungeon building and making the game feel a lot more … Read More →
We’ve been having a lot of fun using the various resources at hand to move our Tikhon fantasy campaign to the new rules. Without a doubt there has been a correlation between the decision to move to D&D (5e) and the picking up of two new players too – something that has been very exciting to … Read More →
Today I feel like a proud father because I’ve just received the final draft for the map of Northern Tikhon, our home-brew fantasy setting. It’s exciting to share this because, over the past 18 months or so, this campaign setting has grown from the merest mention of the town of Mortenburg into a full continent … Read More →
Feeling run-down and fed-up, something pretty cool happened to me this week: I rediscovered the OSR. OSR (“Old School Renaissance”) was where I started, back when it was pretty much the only school. Playing D&D in the late 1970s and early 1980s, my friends and I didn’t really discover “new school” until we moved on … Read More →
