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An Homage to Gelert, the Hound
It’s not going to win any prizes, but here’s a little something I penned in honour of Gelert the hound, hero of a traditional Welsh tale. The hound give name to the picturesque village of Beddgelert (Gelert’s grave) in Snowdonia. … Continue reading
What Is The Right Way To Play The Game?
Since I’ve got back into the RPG hobby (a little over two years ago), I’ve found that the game has changed considerably since my AD&D days in the mid 80s. For a start the number of game systems has exploded … Continue reading
GM Questionnaire
Ok, here’s me jumping on the dangerously overladen bandwagon. Original post from Zak here (interesting site by the way!). 1. If you had to pick a single invention in a game you were most proud of what would it be? In … Continue reading
Things That Go GULP In The Night!
Yesterday we finally finished my Savage Worlds adaptation of Simon Forster’s Mischievous Monsters, having started two months ago (the problems of busy gamers!). I can link to the author now as my players can’t benefit from reading the original, not … Continue reading
Back to the Gaming Board
So Sunday sees us back at the gaming table with the original Savaged Dragon Warriors campaign. Back in December we started a 50 Fathoms campaign for when only the core group can make it, but this weekend we could schedule … Continue reading
Race and Cultural Background in RPGs: Different Icing, Same Cake?
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the wonderfully named Gnome Stew on non-human races in RPGs, which led me to the above metaphor. When we play non-human (or demi-human to use the accepted phrase of a certain wide-spread … Continue reading
Notes from a Gaming Family
It’s Teach Your Kids to Game week over at ReachThruRPG, and as we game as a family, I thought I’d add my 2c-worth. I was introduced to the infamous Red Box Book Set 30 years ago at the tender age … Continue reading
GM’s Musings – Adventure Writing
Not particularly relevant to the Dragon Warriors / Savage Worlds issue, but pen-worthy nevertheless. PC Types and Player Types I’ve been thinking more recently about GMing and adventure writing, looking at how I can up my game. After three winters … Continue reading
Savage Legend Druid
One of the caster types that I always thought was missing from Legend was the druid as I thought that these fit right into the medieval Europe setting that Dave Morris created for us all those years ago. At this … Continue reading
Who’s Lady Trelwyn?
This had to be the quote of the evening. The party are trying to travel across Cornumbria incognito as they are escorting a minor princess from Dun Falas to meet her prospective husband in Albion. Arriving at an inn at … Continue reading
Savage Legend 