Recent content by Gilladian

I dislike Stephen King, and I thought Eyes of the Dragon was an utterly boring pastiche. Never read Jordan, didn’t care for Eddings, and found Sanderson‘s female characters unrealistic. I liked Name of the Wind once, but not on the second read. On the other hand, I like the Dresden Files, Harry...

11, now 56. Original 3 books.

Yup. All my minis for PCs are true 25mm scale, not the oversize ones. I just use homemade tokens for monsters, anyway, about 90% of the time.

Thanks! This video helped. Now I just need NPC color... I find that advice from other people is so helpful in avoiding falling into blah or predictable patterns of my own.

Nuria Natal is the faux egyptian setting for Midgard by Kobold Press. I am loosely using it for this online campaign.

I am running a campaign loosely modeled on ancient Egypt/Nuria Natal (Kobold Press setting). I am plotting a murder mystery set in a camel caravan in the desert. I need some “authentic color” to add to my plot. Can anyone suggest Npc descriptions, attitudes, activities, etc... that would be...

I don’t use a player-facing init tracker. As I dont like alerting them tothings I track at times. I have a strip of cork in a fancy plastic holder, with sharpie numbers down the side, and I use plastic thumbtacks. White with a letter on top for PCs, and colors with numbers for NPCs. I still run...

This was for use in my job at the library, so I had unusual rules to abide by... the adventure and the library game went really well. I wish I’d been able to do it again this year...

Some recent authors I recommend. Katherine Addison - the Goblin Emperor. Naomi Novik - Deadly Education Garth Nix -Left-handed Booksellers of London. E. E. Knight - Novice Dragoneer Oh, and the sixth and final book in Megan Whelan Turner’s Thief series is about to come out. Everyone should read...

Make the backstory and historical elements as generic and simple as possible. I hate adventures where they start off with three dense paragraphs of history, factions and preplot. Theyre useless. I want “this is the tomb of someone famous for killing giants. An eaerthquake recently broke the...

We play on roll20. I am sure I COULD hide my rolls, but why bother? It is more fun to roll openly and hear my players groan or cheer. We also do most rolling in the open at the table, because I am too lazy to use a screen.

The most recent one, Physicians of (I think) Vilnay, is almost too close to today. But very good!

I really enjoyed Katherine Addison’s Goblin Emperor, though if you dislike comple, twisty names, it may not appeal.

Curse of Chalion is fabulous! Have you read the Penric novellas? Set between that and Hallowed Hunt, timewise.

I would suggest Lois Bujold’s World of the Five Gods novels and novellas. They are superb.