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All posts relating to RPGs, tabletop strategy games, collectible card games, etc.

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Michael’s Guide to Unplugged Gaming, Coping with Isolation, and the Zombie Apocalypse

Michael was my nephew. He was 15 when he died last year after six years of illness, treatment, and isolation. So when it comes to coping strategies for medical incarceration, he was a pro. Even before he was ill, we always enjoyed playing games together. I wish he was here Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 3 years20/03/2020 ago
Roleplaying, Tabletop and Card Games

Sheetpicking: D&D Beyond Versus Roll20’s Charactermancer

How many Players Handbooks does it take to change a lightbulb? To be honest, I couldn’t tell you; I’ve got three 5th edition PHB versions and no lightbulbs have yet changed. Let me explain… Over the last year or so, my newly awakened Dungeons & Dragons passion has slowly eased Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 4 years28/01/2019 ago
Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeon Master’s Folly: Campaign Debut (Out of the Abyss)

Returning to Dungeons & Dragons after a quarter-century absence was always going to be a challenge. But I may have underestimated just how much. Mistakes were made. Pick a World, Any World I have vague recollections of being a reasonably competent dungeon master once, but they were simpler times. As Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 5 years01/04/2018 ago
Roleplaying, Tabletop and Card Games

The Eighties Called, They Want Their Dungeon Master Back

Over a quarter of a century ago, I was a Dungeon Master. Then life happened; career, mortgage, marriage, kids. The funny-shaped dice gathered dust. Yet over the passing decades, the impact of those teenage roleplaying game sessions has resonated through my life. Not least the fact that I’ve remained close Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 5 years ago
Dungeons and Dragons

Upon a Rock in a Dark Place

Derrick was about to die. Shrouded in the empty blackness of a vast, subterranean cavern, Derrick Stoneballs – second-storey man and lifelong criminal – clung to the vertical rock face and gave his predicament careful consideration even as his muscles screamed for respite. As a dwarf, he accepted his people’s Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 5 years08/03/2018 ago
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