2023: My Year in TTRPG Gaming

It’s been another busy year of game design projects and running and playing TTRPGs. Here are my 2023 highlights. Like lots of folk, I embarked on a #Dungeon23 project on 1st January, designing a new dungeon room each day. My dungeon is part of Parsantium’s vast Hidden Quarter, and gave me a great opportunity toContinue reading “2023: My Year in TTRPG Gaming”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 40 – Grand Finale

After nearly four years of monthly(ish) gaming, starting in person, then moving online during Covid, before going back to in person again, we finished our Empire of the Ghouls campaign last Saturday. Here is the final write up from what has been one of our most memorable campaigns! This session write up contains spoilers for the adventure. Continue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 40 – Grand Finale”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 39 – Danse Macabre

In this month’s Empire of the Ghouls session we continued with the final chapter, The Pure City of Vandekhul, with the characters fugitives in the ghoul city. All being well, we should finish the campaign next session! This session write up contains spoilers for the adventure. New to Empire of the Ghouls? Start here. 27th Deep Winter, 92 FY (contd.) FleeingContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 39 – Danse Macabre”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 38 – The Pure City of Vandekhul

In this month’s Empire of the Ghouls session we continued with the final chapter, The Pure City of Vandekhul, as the characters arrived in the ghoul city and started exploring. I think we’ve just got two or three sessions to go before we reach the end of the campaign. This session write up contains spoilersContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 38 – The Pure City of Vandekhul”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 37 – Temple of Hriggala

In our first Empire of the Ghouls session of 2023 we continued with the final chapter, The Pure City of Vandekhul and the characters’ exploration of Chandelier Island. It was a fun and challenging session with the banishment spell causing some very entertaining shenanigans. 26th Deep Winter, 92 FY (contd.) The Gears pushes open the doors leading into aContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 37 – Temple of Hriggala”

2022: My Year in TTRPG Gaming

This year has been a busy one in terms of both game design projects and playing RPGs, so I thought it would be good to write about a few of my highlights. Back in January, the Tome of Beasts 3 Kickstarter launched and went on to raise an amazing $767,501 from 9,438 backers. I contributedContinue reading “2022: My Year in TTRPG Gaming”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 36 – Chandelier Island

In our last Empire of the Ghouls session we continued with the final chapter, The Pure City of Vandekhul, one of the two that I wrote. This time the characters headed to Chandelier Island, a location in the Sulphur Sea that first appeared in the original d20 version of Empire of the Ghouls. I got to update itContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 36 – Chandelier Island”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 35 – Sailing the Sulphur Sea

In our last Empire of the Ghouls session we moved onto the final chapter, The Pure City of Vandekhul, which is one of the two that I wrote. It was a long time since I’d written the encounters we played, but it was good to see them work well at the table! 24th Deep Winter, 92Continue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 35 – Sailing the Sulphur Sea”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 34 – Ship of Fools

This weekend we (almost) finished Chapter 5: Into the Fuligin Realm, as the adventurers returned the Staff of the Underworld to Narosain and stole a ship to take them across the Sulphur Sea. 19th Deep Winter, 92 FY As the victorious adventurers travel back to the Last King with the Staff of the Underworld, they pass through a cavern filledContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 34 – Ship of Fools”

Empire of the Ghouls Session 33 – Master of the Dragons’ Graveyard

This weekend we continued with Empire of the Ghouls, Chapter 5: Into the Fuligin Realm, as the adventurers continued to explore the Dragons’ Graveyard, in search of the Staff of the Underworld. I had time before we played to draw out the cavern complex on my Tact-Tiles and this proved to be time well-spent as weContinue reading “Empire of the Ghouls Session 33 – Master of the Dragons’ Graveyard”