Recent content by GuyBoy

For me, it never has been about the merits of the rulesets, but all about the nostalgia and the memories. Memories of exploring dungeons and wilderlands. Memories of painting figures. Memories of friends. So for me, OD&D and 1E mean everything.

This story hour is superb. I'm invested in the characters as they play through a classic adventure that holds so many wonderful memories. Thank you again for taking the time to write this.

Very fond of the ghost horse that haunts the road between East and West Malling (where i went to primary school for a while) and kills vicars if they travel the road at night. I'm planning to mix the story up with the Horse of the Invisible Cthulhu module from an old White Dwarf in an upcoming...

Ah, Runequest. Loved the setting and the game but never played a duck; probably my fault for lack of adventurous spirit. I did DM a 2E game where the wizard used a polymorph self scroll to turn into a duck (his choice!) to escape a pack of dire wolves. It didn't end well!

My first was OD&D in late 1976. As to my second; memory is a bit hazy, but it was either Chivalry & Sorcery or the short-lived UK game Bifrost. I certainly preferred Bifrost to C&S. Gamma World followed soon after.

I’d opt for Shadowdark because the lantern rules and the no darkvision seem perfect for creating the dungeon atmosphere. An atmosphere of rough-hewn stone, dusty webs, cracked doors and distant sounds.

I've ticked (well, almost finished) the box of playing through the wonderful Enemy Within (big thanks to GM @TheSword ) in WFRP. I've been fortunate enough to have run the G1-3 and D1-3 series back in AD&D days and also run Night Below too. GM-wise, I've never run CoC, but I will be doing so...

Love that your collection is so vast that it has its own guard dog!

I rarely play clerics and tend to avoid wizards. Generally I favour bards, rogues and fighters (in no particular order) with all my characters tending to be good-hearted, though not always totally so. My currently active characters are a human rogue in Drakkenheim, a human witch-hunter in...

Thank you so much for the advice. I will definitely act on it.

I'm about halfway through planning a CoC campaign, set in 1924, and (dependent on investigator decisions) likely to involve Stonehenge area, Norfolk, Kent, Oxford, London and then leaving the UK for France, Italy and Egypt. Really looking forward to it, partly as a C20th historian and partly as...

Really enjoying the development of the characters as the party begins to respect one another’s abilities. Leana has to be the nicest person in the world! Looking forward to seeing them escape the shake-down, or not...

Thanks for this review. I am currently playing in this excellent campaign and it’s a fantastic experience, with excellent roleplay opportunities as well as exciting (and often scary) scenarios. It is quite dark in tone, which I personally enjoy, and I’m blessed to have a great DM ( @TheSword )...

Great contrast between the measured approach of the player characters and the "kick open the door and attack" of the NPC, Vinx!

I have the privilege of being a player in Dungeons of Drakkenheim ( @TheSword is DM) and can endorse all the above. It's a superb adventure in every sense.