With the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons upon us, and the Satanic Panic seemingly given a new lease, I was asked by some good folks online to run for them a campaign to honor both. So, I have dusted off my original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks and dreamed up an adventure with which…
An Anniversary
45 years ago today, on December 26, 1978, I played my first game of Dungeons & Dragons. I received the Holmes boxset for Christmas from my parents, read it through the night, and DM’d a session for my brother and father the next day. I have been obsessed with roleplaying games ever since. Speaking of,…
The Occult Detective RPG Tarot Deck
Not only will you get a phenomenal rulebook to take you on your journey into the realms of high strangeness that The Occult Detective Roleplaying Game offers… but you will also receive an Occult Detective themed Tarot Deck to help guide your way. Coming soon to Kickstarter. Written and Designed by Bob Freeman and Connor…
The Occult Detective RPG is Coming
At long last, The Occult Detective Roleplaying Game will be manifesting on kickstarter in the very near future. What can you expect? Innovative character creation, an immersive campaign setting, and narrative gameplay, all steeped in folklore, urban legends, magick, and the paranormal. Oh, and did we mention it comes with an Occult Detective themed Tarot…
A Fire and Ice Gameplay Video
Backers have been clamoring for a gameplay video since the campaign began, and I thought we had put up a decent mock-up for them to watch, using Photoshop and some ingenuity. The fact is, we don’t have any prototypes to work with. When we created the game and playtested it, we used Roll20 as our…
Day Thirty & Thirty-One: OBSCURE FAVOURITE #RPGaDay2023
And so it ends. Welcome to Last Day, where I get to share the final two prompts and bring RPGaDay to a close. This has been the least enjoyable RPGaDay Celebration I’ve taken part in simply because I’ve been running a kickstarter all month and I have had zero time to enjoy answering the questions,…
Day Twenty-Nine: ENCOUNTER #RPGaDay2023
September 29th. Already? I guess so. Today and two more and we’ll put ten years of RPGaDay behind us. It flies by so fast every year… Today’s prompt is “Most memorable ENCOUNTER”. So many ways to look at this one. I’ve been DMing a long time. I have little snippets of past games pop into…
Day Twenty-Eight: SCARIEST #RPGaDay2023
Monday, Monday, Monday. A great day for the 28th prompt in this year’s RPGaDay extravaganza. The prompt in question? SCARIEST game you’ve played. There have been some great adventures over the years, many of them harrowing, but I think the scariest was a session of Occult Detective in an old Oddfellows Lodge. It is surreal…
Day 27: New Edition #RPGaDay2023
Sunday, Day 27. We’re in the home stretch, the final week of out tenth anniversary celebration. How does the final week begin? Game you’d like a new EDITION of… I thought Modiphius’ Conan was gorgeous. They really threw everything at it. But I am not a fan of the mechanics. The 2d20 system just didn’t…
Fire and Ice Character Sheets
Here’s a look at the Fire and Ice: Miniatures Adventure Game Character Sheets, in both Printer Friendly and Full Color Versions.
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