Recent content by pete284

We've had the Marmite conversation now we must mention the king of all hot drinks a good beefy Bovril

I'm Welsh and British, speak a little Welsh but understand more than I can speak. Live in Wrexham, started as a Wargamer in 1977 and played Red Box in the 80s. Still both wargame and play RPGs.

I like less complexity as I get older. I have now moved to an FKR style where characters are made freeform using Cliche's or Tags and all rolls are resolved using a simple dice mechanic which can be changed up depending on style or genre. I have found it freeing for players to design any...

Same here we'll have to form "Voted none of the above Club" 🙃

I have used Dungeon Draw in Foundry to draw maps on the fly, it works very well when the players end up going somewhere you aren't expecting.

FibreOptic box from VirginMedia, phone streaming channels, apps and even domestic channels all come through my streaming box. TV in the UK used to be a mix of TV aerial and satellite dish. Now everything is switching to streaming boxes from the main suppliers so: sky, virgin, fire stick and Roku

And Deep Purple's Child in Time as the background music - excellent choice.

I have run about 70 sessions of LOTR 5e by FL, having run about 80 sessions of Adventures in Middle Earth. The improvements made in latest version have made it out favourite version of 5e.

I prefer forums to Discord (which is fine for software support etc) but is dire for long form discussion. There are so few forums still around I tend to bounce between them and Reddit for non D&D talk.

Back in 1982 I had a couple of females playing in my D&D game, but they never stayed in the hobby. We were all in the last year of school before either getting jobs or going into higher education.

DHL suspends all high value US deliveries, applies to shipments over $800. Business to business shipments continue but delays expected. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jx9ep5l63o

GMT games have just announce they have $500,000 of games due from China and they need $700,000 to import them into the US so are asking for help from their customers...

Nobody goes into job expecting deal with upset and nasty verbals. Sadly, in the age of social media people are happy to attack and bad mouth individuals. With what has gone on the last few years I hope those individuals that have left have a have a much quieter life and can once enjoy gaming as...

A very good explanation of the tariffs by a mathematician:

I prefer when modules give you bullet points of the salient facts so you can give it in your own words to the players.