My Dream Campaign
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival theme is “campaigns I’d like to run“. I’ve been lucky to have been able to run some fantastic campaigns in my time, but there is something that I would love to be able to do Read More
“The Party” vs. “The Cloud”
One of the things that strikes me from the accounts of the earliest days of Gary Gygax’s campaign in Lake Geneva was the lack of a single group of players that would consistently come together to play. There was no Read More
NPCs in Premade Settings
In the comments of my previous post on “advancing the timeline” in Greyhawk, commenter scottz made a very interesting point: “Characters/NPC’s are canon ‘mountpoints’ as much as maps or gazetteers are, IMHO.” I take this to mean that, if one Read More
Worlds I’ve Known
Thinking back, the overwhelming majority of campaigns I’ve either played in or DMed have been home-brew campaigns. I love Greyhawk, of course, and have a vast GH collection and (at the risk of being immodest) knowledge, but even then, I’ve Read More
Kicking off a Campaign
I probably just gave my regular players a heart attack with the title of this post, but I’m referring to the general ways and means of starting new campaigns. A new campaign doesn’t necessarily have to be in a new Read More
