Spoiler Warning! This game report for the scenario Blackwater Creek will (hopefully) be an entertaining read and be a useful resource, both for GMs in particular to see one route this scenario can take if they are thinking of running it, and for people who just want to get a feel for a Call of […]
Unfinished Tales is a series of independent short campaigns that explore Middle-earth beyond the the War of the Ring. The campaigns use the 5e rules, a customised take on generic D&D 5e rules. Individual campaigns are closed with fellowships of characters formed before their start. The East Wind Rises In the South, King Minardil lies […]
Journeys into the strange and terrifying, where many are left broken and torn upon the road to glimpsing the true face of what lies beyond the veil of our mundane reality. Your characters are expendable; their sanity fragile; their foes vast beyond the mind’s ability to grasp. Will they be able to face unknowable horrors, […]
TALES FROM THE LOOP is a kind of alternative history setting. Technological and scientific breakthroughs in the 1950’s change the course of history and as we pick up in this fictional 1980’s setting where our protagonists, Kids, deal with robots who roam the countryside, special vehicles that can hover, strange and fantastic technologies, all the […]
Since long before the arrival of Korinthia and her subjects, the land north of the Titans was home to a motley array of creatures with diverse customs and complicated relationships to one another. The arrival of the Ambrians destroyed this precarious balance. The core tensions run between Ambrians and the Elder Folk with the barbarians […]
City of Guilds, intrigue and politics. The once bountiful Ravnica has collapsed back into civil war. Work with the living guildpact, Jace Beleron, form alliances and run the implicit maze. Do you have what it takes to survive in this most famous of MTG City-planes (5e rules all sourcebooks). A brief outline of Ravnica and […]
If you’ve ever heard of Baldur’s Gate, of Neverwinter or Waterdeep, then you are familiar with the continent of Faerûn, or as it is sometimes known, the Forgotten Realms. The Kantas Expanse concerns another continent far from the Forgotten Realms, however; one which until recently was completely unknown to the denizens of Faerûn, or indeed […]
This post is a sort of self-reflection from a GM on the practical side of the campaign, rather than a narrative review, like other posts are. Early in 2020 I set up a monthly open campaign for Tales From the Loop, an 80’s Kid’s-on-Bikes style game based on Simon Stålenhag’s narrative artbook of the same […]