I really miss playing or running #ADnD2e. That's the game I started playing, and I love the overall feel, weird rolls aside. I can't wait to get to have players start working on characters for a backup game I'm working on for when not all of my Sunday players can make game.

Decisions, decisions… With some incredible #HauntedWest games already lined up by the Balladeers at #GameHoleCon, I’m tempted to mix things up. Maybe it’s time to unveil something from the #OuroborosSystem —a Darker Hue original. New worlds to explore, new stories to tell. #TTRPGs #GMLife

The mini-campaign setting search is down to a three-way tie! The finalists? #NightsBlackAgents, #Rifts, & #MechWarrior. I've got just over a month before Session 0, it’s time to roll up my sleeves and get to plotting. Conspiracies, mechs, or dimensional terrors —what’s it gonna be? #GMLife #TTRPGs

Hey #TTRPG folks, have any projects or games you want to talk up? Any questions about how to work things out in your current games? Want to workshop any ideas?

I really wish I had more #TTRPG things to post here. At this point, I've got a primary and backup #MasksANewGeneration (#Masks) games, a primary #Pathfinder game, and we're working on getting a time to make characters for a backup #ADnD2e game at some point, but we've been reliably unreliable in meeting.

I've been spending a lot of time reading up on news and politics, because as an American, I'm in the thick of it all and I'm less likely to panic if I know what's going on. However, I don't want to turn my account into a highly politicized one.

I do miss RPG shop talk though. I keep my eyes on the hashtags. I just haven't had any burning questions I wanted to ask folks.

Savoring my last #DragonMilk Triple Mash with my snuggly pup by my side while prepping eight #7thSea1E pregens for next week’s one-shot. A balanced mix of sword schools, sorcery, and societies for a devious scenario I’ve got brewing! #GMLife #Stout

I'm super excited to get to run #ADnD2e again, even if it's just a backup game for our #Pathfinder group.

I'm hoping that everyone is interested enough in that game that I can run some classic modules when we finish the #RiseOfTheRunelords campaign.

It'll be nice to finally get to run #AlQadim. I've had the boxed set and campaign book for a while now, and I haven't gotten to use it. Looking forward to some tomb raiding, djin wishing, carpet flying adventures!

I think I'll make a few quality of life improvements to the old system and work out ascending instead of descending AC to make it easier on the players though.

I'm going to work on a backup #TTRPG game for our Sunday #Pathfinder #RiseOfTheRunelords campaign for when we can't all make a session.

I'm leaning towards the #AlQadim #ArabianNights setting. I've had the boxed set for years, and I haven't had the chance to use it yet.

It'll probably be #ADnD2e but I'm not above trying to make it work for #CastlesAndCrusades. If it's AD&D, I'll probably convert AC to ascending instead of descending, for the ease of the players (and for me!).

Looks like I'm running a backup game for our #Masks group. The players are okay with another #MasksANewGeneration game but with a lighter tone. I'm thinking about a mix of #QuantumLeap, #Sliders, and the #CrossTimeCaper run of #Excalibur, one of the series that really got me into collecting comics.

The overall idea will be a team of heroes who are forced to hop through different dimensions, probably heavily influenced by movies, TV shows, or books that I'm into. Everyone seems to want something lighter in tone and I can certainly do that for them!

When playing a #TTRPG, I love it when the dice tell a story.

Sunday, during our #Pathfinder game, the party espied a demon in an adjoining room, lurking in the dark. The language for the module said that the first thing the demon would do was to cast a spell to summon another to the temple, so I said it was starting to cast a spell.

Immediately, the cleric said she wanted to try and cancel the spell. The player flipped through her spell list and the core book, trying to figure out how to stop the demon. I decided to have an initiative roll-off to see if the creature could get the spell off before the cleric could stop it.

The player won the initiative roll by 1. 19 vs 20. The players were stoked, to say the least.

Then she had to roll against the spell going off, which was no guarantee. I think she needed a 14 or better and she rolled an 18, I think.

The cleric had just stopped the summoning of another huge demon. I believe they killed it in a round and a half. It was epic. I was thrilled for them. They had a good strategy and great luck. I live for those moments in game.

Tomorrow, we're starting module 5 of 6 of my #Pathfinder #RiseOfTheRunelords campaign. I never imagined I'd get this far through it when we started.

It's got me thinking about my gaming white whales.

I'd love to get to play #VampireTheMasquerade again at some point, but more likely, I'll be running #VampireTheRequiem

I'd love to go back and run some #AdvancedDungeonsAndDragons modules like the #Dragonlance #WarOfTheLance or the original #Ravenloft or things like that using #ADD2e or #CastlesAndCrusades.

As I run my players through the #Pathfinder adventure path #RiseOfTheRunelords, I've reinforced my dislike of extensive numbers of feats and systems with higher amounts of crunch and my preference towards more #OSR type games.

I've all but gotten rid of battle maps. I largely ignore the lists of feats on enemy NPC entries. Unless they're built-in to the forms, I mostly ignore them. It might be different if the information was listed on the entries, but as it is, I'd have to cross-reference across at least one other book, possibly more. That just slows down the session.

A side effect of getting rid of the battle map, I fudge distances, ignore strict rules about flanking for sneak attacks in favor of a more *shudder* #DND5e approach. If an enemy is engaged, the rogue can sneak attack. It's simple, and I don't have to worry about drawing maps or, now that we have one player remoting in, screw around with a VTT.

If I had my druthers, I'd be running #CastlesAndCrusades or #ADND2e. I really don't care a whit about character optimizing, skill points, or feat chains. Let me describe the action and let the GM adjudicate the results with a roll.

But I'm glad my players are happy and that they're happy to let me drop some annoying rules here and there to streamline the experience. /1

Mentally preparing for my first #Pathfinder session of the year. We successfully remoted in one of the players in my Friday #Masks game. We even got a die rolling script in the Discord channel.

With luck, we'll complete book 4 of the #RiseOfTheRunelords adventure path and I'll start preparing for book 5 of 6.

After about a two month break (holidays, player moving, weather, and disease), we finally got back to my #MasksANewGeneration game.

The heroes had to deal with a pair of human supremacists (Whiteout and Slay Belle) and a union security guard (Jacked Frost), intergalactic arms merchant parents, and the line between being a super powered cop and vigilante.

I was afraid I was going to be rusty, and that I had lost the story plot, but it came back like riding a bike. Lots of screaming, honking car horns, and gravel in my knee. But fun was had by all.

Tonight should be our session zero for #CityOfMist. I've more-or-less decided on a news blogger connected to the essence of either Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe, or full bore crazy Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan. Either way, I'm going with The Truth, no matter what.

Between a player who has moved, game postponements, and a week of fighting a killer cold, I'm starting to go through serious #TTRPG withdrawal.

Not only do I really enjoy playing and running games (I've more enjoyed running lately), but reading them and discussing ideas and mechanics with others involved with or new to the hobby.

My favorite might be helping new players and GMs find their footing. I love watching the hobby grow and people find a new pastime to explore and enjoy.

I want to see myself as a mentor or guide on the gaming journey, though that feels like a boast or brag. I trained to be a teacher as an undergrad, and that just feels natural to me. Might be why I enjoy GMing so much.

Haven't done as many #TTRPG posts because one of our players has moved, and we're waiting for things to normalize a bit before we start experimenting with a hybrid in-person and telegaming experience.

Our Friday group is looking to start a backup game that I won't be running. I offered, but they wanted to give me a break and another one of our GMs has some systems they want to run. #ThirstySwordLesbians was mentioned but most of us aren't interested.