The adventure I wrote for Legends of Greyhawk is now available for purchase on DnDBeyond. Come enjoy the wonder of A Village Called Hommlet and uncover the intrigues of the Temple of Elemental Evil.
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The concept is you create a goblin and a war pig. Goblins are at war with elves for reasons. You have been scouting and now there are elves between you and home. Get home.
Besides some paper for your character sheet, you need 6 coins per person and at least 1 d6. GMless and has a solo mode.
Cover of War Pigs. Has goblins riding pigs on cover.
Today’s post #paxeast reading is War Pigs by Caroline Sheridan, Lara Hearn, and Morgan Hopeman.
What a fun concept! My husband and son dug it right away and my son was laughing while reading the pregens. He even asked me if I’d stop reading so he could read it some more.
For instance, one section of the page is labeled “Clarifications for those who don’t know how to ask” which has been most of my life, even more so because my son wants to learn more.
My knowledge is limited in that my mom lost her father when she was about 20. I grew up knowing he was Jewish. In addition to being an interesting game, it helps make learning that part of my ancestry more approachable.
Cover of Dybbuks and Dreidels which has a threshold and three characters—a knight, a woman, and a cloaked figure.
Bought a few books from the @sidequestbooks.bsky.social table at #paxeast. The first one I’m looking at is Dybbuks and Dreidels by Matthew Gurevitch. It has my mind racing, in a good way.
My son super enjoyed pax east. He’s 9 and hadn’t gone in at least 6 years. I hadn’t gone since 2020 and it felt like home again.
Looking over child’s shoulder as he plays a world building game.
Child playing duck hunt
I forgot to grab a pic when he was playing pokopia but son has been having a blast playing games.
Pile of tabletop RPG books on table.
May have gone a bit overboard on book buying at pax east. :)
Would love to see you too! Will be in Boston area that whole week after too.
I should be at PAX east, Sunday, if anyone I know will be there.
Also it’s trippy watching someone play through Helldivers 2 right now.
Like different music? Celebrate God in a different way? You have to go. At least enough of you do so they can live their lives in ignorance of you.
That’s why the Spanish during the Super Bowl bothered them so much.
But darlings, I’m not going anywhere. Many have tried.
I need to scream at the void for a moment.
This whole belief that unity is at odds with diversity is them saying the quiet part out loud.
They don’t see folks like me to be the same as them because of say my gender. They can’t see it because of their bias. Therefore I must go.
My son was so excited during the Stranger Things finale (he just finished) that he was just about bouncing off the walls.
Screenshot of Apple News where headlines describe Bovino leaving Minnesota and potentially being removed from his role.
Well look at that
Bovino’s disregard of the First Amendment sure is a choice that will have consequences.
So my son had his third session of D&D at a gaming store (the second without me). He had a blast. He fought his first roper, is still on the hunt for Vecna, and hopefully he'll be able to do it again soon.
Today was the first time we dropped our son off at a gaming store to play D&D. He super enjoyed it and played a Goliath paladin.
Cabinet with doors open holding games, most aimed at a younger audience.
One built, two more to go. Might be able to get most of our board games into the living room!!!
Cover of Monster, She Wrote with a tea latte in a cozy mug.
Almost halfway through Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson. Love it, especially after reading The Bewitching.
Also enjoying a Woodland Latte at Miro, in Ballard. ❤️
I have a knack of discovering things. Tuesday I walked for a mile+ in hopes of seeing the sun set behind the mountains and ended up at restaurant perfect for my husband.
Today I decided to turn left before the gps wanted me to and found an art supply store that hadn’t come up when I searched.
The novel reminded me of the stories my mom would tell, from her Italian and Slavic background, of witches and of her gifts of foresight and warnings. Which of course nurtured in me a love of horror (especially the type Moreno-Garcia writes) which I now see in my son.
The second is The Bewitching by @silviamg.bsky.social a wonderful book that felt like a warm hug from my mom and made me a bit nostalgic for the time I was in a student at a New England college. The only thing that made me read it in chunks is my now 9 year old who wanted to, you know, do things. :)
Read two books so far this week. The first is The Second Chance Convenience Store by Kim Ho-Yeon, translated by Janet Hong.
Adored the heck out of it. A book of connection from a time of isolation. <3
Covers of Monty Python’s Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme and Punk is Dead
My son played his first D&D game tonight at an open gaming night at Meeples Games in Seattle. Our DM was amazing. <3
I also picked up these games.
It says a whole lot that in what DriveThruRPG wrote and some defenses of it, the violence is against marginalized identities and/or more extreme than what the intro had.
What an absolute dumpster fire of a statement.
TACO TACO man, he’s just a little TACO man.