Heyo everyone, just a short post while I am putting together the actual play report from my last 13th Age game.
I don't get to play as much as I would like. Scheduling as an adult parent of two teenagers when the other players in your game are also adult parents or the actual teenagers, is rough.
So, in the meantime, I like to see what other people and doing and thinking about relavent to 13th Age and other classic tabletop RPGs.
So, first, I want to highlight Whit Mattson of A Game of Whit's. He has a bunch of videos of his new adventure/sandbox for 13th Age with his play group. The sandbox is Balan's Gorge. Just watch the first episode, and if you don't think that the setup for his mining boomtown with a twist is brilliant, there is no talking to you. See it here. I love the idea of mixing the classic dungeon crawl environment with the boomtown atmospher of Deadwood. Just check out the setup Whit does. I think it is brilliant.
Second, I have to give a big shoutout to J-M, Mark and Nick of the ICONIC Podcast. Their latest episode is on DRAGONS and it is epic. Also, they come up with a campaign idea (and offer it to all of us for free) that makes an amazing framework for a challenging 13th Age campaign involving dragons and the struggle between two of the Icons (specifically the Great Gold Wrym and the Diabolist). As an exercise for your imagination, as well as for some very informative discussion, I highly recommend this episode and everything else they put out. You may recall from this post I also was fortunate to be picked by those kind gentlmen as the winner of their contest about giving a backstory to the White Dragon for 13th Age. As a bonus, I recently participated in recording another episode with them. Hopefully I helped add to the already considerable information and entertainment that they deliver. In any case, Episode 16 on dragons is really worth your time and an introduction to the very best that ICONIC turns out!
Finally, last year another tabletop RPG had a bit of a release, my old love Dungeons & Dragons. I have to say, I am falling in love all over again. I still will be running 13th Age, but I am really happy to see 5th Edition D&D do so well and be such a great game.
To keep me in touch with that reality, I have started to listen to bigAl (@bravenewdungeon) with his actual play podcasts and D&D talks here. Listening to Al manage his actual plays really gives me great respect for all those Dungeon Masters willing not only to virtually DM through the internet, but also to go out and just open a game to a bunch of people (or even just some people) he has never met before, and make it all work.
Brave New Dungeon has been a lot of fun to listen to, and there is a huge back catalogue of Big Al's main campaing, The Pearl, which I have yet to tackle.
In any case, he definitely deserves a wide audience, so check it out!
Until later, keep playing games and having fun!
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