I recently completed my first campaign of Shadow of the Demon Lord (aka SotDL), so I figured I'd write down my impressions. I won't go terribly deep on details about the system, as plenty of articles already exist about that. Shadow of the Demon Lord The Pitch My group mostly plays D&D 5e but was very open to the idea of trying SotDL....
I attended my second KublaCon last weekend. Like last year, I had a fun time overall. Most of what I wrote last year still holds true (including the frustrating Shuffler), so I won't repeat it here. It felt like the results were posted sooner this time, which helped. Then again, the website was virtually unusable (it kept timing out) for most of the con... They really need a new system!...
Today, I received a package in the mail. The contents revealed the following: The Dark Eye Kickstarter Contents Yes, it's my physical copy of The Dark Eye from the recent, highly successful, Kickstarter for the English translation of the game's 5th edition. I figured I'd take this opportunity to kick off the "RPGs I've played" series I've been meaning to write....
I know not everyone likes them, but I'm a sucker for GM screens. At the same time, official GM screens usually don't include the exact information I need. Too often, they include obscure random tables that I rarely (if ever) need, while omitting critical information that I need to reference all the time....
I recently got back into tabletop RPGs after taking a 16+ year break from this hobby. In this post, I'll share my experience. I first started playing RPGs in the mid-80s. Growing up in Germany, my first system was naturally Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye) - the most popular German RPG, easily beating out D&D. The Dark Eye just kickstarted an English translation of the 5th edition, BTW....