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Kadmoniah Session 4
18 Adar, heavy rain. Oleander was back at the table this week, along with Jack and Anadalia from last week. I would have loved to have a full house for our last session of the semester, but alas, a heavy driving-culture city plus teenagers means occasionally a ride cannot be got. We had a good time, all the same.
Kadmoniah Session 3
17-18 Adar, heavy rain. Only Jack and Anadalia were at the table this week, but we made the most of it.
Kadmoniah Sessions 1 and 2
Well, so much for always writing a session report prior to the following session! I’m going to do a 2-for-1 here.
Kadmoniah Session 0
I promised myself I would publish a session report before the next session. Since Session 1 is two days from now, the clock has arrived to collect its due, so here it is!
Sunday School DM
Back in June, I was contacted out of the blue by the education director at my synagogue, looking for an adult to lead their D&D club. They’d established it the prior school year as a post-Sunday-school activity for a handful of high-school kids who wanted the space to play.
Rainbow Dice
I recently plowed my way through Daniel Norton’s excellent Song of the Mapper OD&D Actual Play backlog, and one shorthand he uses a lot is a white d6 and black d6 in combination. He can make one roll and determine, say, surprise for the PCs (white die) and the opposition (black die), without having to keep track of anything other than the dice he grabs. I’ve seen DMs do on-the-fly contortions like declaring “OK the first orc is one and the second orc is two” and then rolling two white d6s in succession. This kind of improvising process on the spot is something I like to avoid, because each instance gives me a slight bump of flusterment. Hence, I’m always looking for ways to shape my tools so when I pick them up, they fit my hand and are immediately usable. So I dig Daniel’s method here (which maybe comes from Ironsworn?), but in thinking about the absurdly large bag of multicolored dice I have, I realized there’s a way to make this second dimension of dice a whole lot 🌈wider🌈.
Appendix N, The Game Master
I’m late in piling on The Bandwagon (thanks to Traverse Fantasy for being the catalyst). I was originally too intimidated to throw my hat in, mostly because I was expecting all of these to be amazingly curated lists of extremely specific and impeccablly indie taste. While many were just that (and all have been fantastically made – check out elmcat’s entry roll), some were of a different tenor and vibe than I was expecting, so I’m going to try my hand at something equally different. My list is primarily made up of moments. Blips in time that vibrated so harmoniously with my gutbrains that I haven’t been the same since.
The Slug
Khedar was walking through the woods with his companions and happened to spot a curiousity – a golden necklace with a huge ruby pendant hanging inside the hollow bole of a tree. Being possessed of equal doses of caution and greed, as is generally requisite for adventurers, he picked up a stick to prod the necklace in an attempt to get it out. At this point, the trap was sprung.
The Golden Compass
I’m always on the hunt for tools to help jolt the creative muscle.