Recent content by Kza

Thanks, Stephan! I copied the entirety of your responses into my text file so I can go through it line by line and highlight the bits that spark for me. Just skimming through it I can already see some interesting ideas I hadn't even thought of, so this is great. This will probably take me some...

Part Three: The Confrontation! aka The Actual Actual Problem Okay, a summary: the Party has found the entrance to the Secret Forbidden Books Room and stepped in. Presuming I stay with what I wrote above, they will each be individually tested in their own personal challenge/puzzle rooms, with...

I know I need to write up the next part, but I want to hit your questions while the iron's hot. (It's likely I'll give you more in-depth answers in the Part 3 post, since you've hit on stuff I need to talk about.) Q1: Next, as you know I have read all about your Serenissima postings. There you...

Part Two: The Actual Problem! (I should take a moment to note that, in case you haven't figured it out, I'm not that big on what you might call "traditional" D&D worlds. Back in the day, I guess I would've been a big Arduin guy. I like weirdness and mixing genres, and I find the kind of baseline...

First, I hope this post is in the right section. Mods, please move it if it isn't! Second, to get to my point of difficulty, I'm going to need to set up a lot of context. Listening to other people's campaigns can be like listening to other people's dreams -- a real drag -- so I promise to keep...

Hi! Kent M. Beeson, currently living outside Madison, WI. Been playing D&D and other rpgs, off and on, since... 1981? 1982? (I'm 48.) I also have a lot of experience with Call of Cthulhu and Warhammer FRP, both of which I consider formative for me. We moved to WI about five years ago, and not...