Another Idea

This blog is another in a long line of ideas. Today I am moving a couple of posts from my personal blog to here in my new TTRPG blog. I want to use this blog for idea postings, reviews, and perhaps updates for the various groups I act as a dungeon master (game master for those using the modern title) for.

Just as a quick recap for those not part of our gaming groups, I have been playing some form of TTRPG since grade school in the dark ages of the early 1980s. My introduction came while I was throwing newspapers for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. One day ion the route I saw two kids, brothers, playing a game with those dice. I stood there for a minute listening to the tale being told and asked what they were doing. The rest of the route was a bit latter that day and the next few as I joined them just as an observer during an adventure. That summer I purchased the Red Box set and sat out on a life long adventure. First I taught myself by playing alone, then I dragged my brother into the game (just showing the box cover worked). We advanced through some box sets as I created our first dungeons.

Eventually we included friends, and our mother! She preferred Boothill but would play D&D also if asked nicely. I started cross realming, taking the characters back and forth through various game universes early on. First to Gamma World, then Star Wars, Boothill, and GURPS Autoduel. This is how Certar the fighter class came to be, he started life in Star Wars as a rebel fighter, donned the armor of a storm trooper, got sucked into a vortex arriving in the wastelands of Gamma World, before once again entering a rift in space time and ending on A'Drakon. So yes, there is a partially trooper armored fighter that is sometimes seen riding a hippogriff. He is one of several very unique characters in our groups.

A'Drakon? Oh that is my homebrew world that has been slowly built since those first games. It is a magical place with portals that come and go to the other realms of possibility. Sometimes known paths exist, other times random events take place to start the journey.

I have only recently started playing online with our group members, thank you Covid. During this time I have used various tools that I will try to review in other posts. The video below we used Zoom, Realm Works, Hero Lab, and D&D Beyond. It was not well played but it is the only session I have posted a video for so far. It had been literally almost two decades since playing with this group.