Hot Blood & Cold Steel

Category: roleplaying

  • Tokuemon Takedown [D&D 5e]

    Tokuemon Takedown [D&D 5e]

    Tokuemon Takedown is the third, and final, session in the Yojimbo mission followed hot on the heels of the Silkworm Inn incident. Starting without pause where we left off the party gathered on the street outside. A crowd of potential helpers had arrived to put out the fire. As they assembled Harbek had created water…

  • Silkworm Inn catches fire [D&D 5e]

    Silkworm Inn catches fire [D&D 5e]

    Fire in the Silkworm Inn is the next part of the Yojimbo D&D campaign following on from Taking Yoichiro Home. Having been bailed out of the local jail, and recruited Kohei to help find Nui the group assemble in the town square to discuss their next moves. The local constabulary keep a close eye on…

  • Taking Yoichiro Home [D&D 5e]

    This is a write up of a D&D 5e session titled Taking Yoichiro Home which is part of a mini-campaign being run for Alexander and his friends. Taking Yoichiro Home So last time round you found Yoichiro, the son of Seibei, and persuaded him to go home with you to see his dad before he…

  • New Megagamer Advice

    New Megagamer Advice

    Advice for a new megagamer on how to get the best experience from a Megagame Makers megagame. Also handy for the experienced megagamer

  • East End Explosions

    I’ve been exploring the world of Perfects with some friends by running a roleplaying session with the Full Moon games group playing the senior officers of a police counter-terrorism group. More details on Operation Hawkeye. I couldn’t resist writing some press stories as a result of the session. East Ended! Brave cops foil GM terror group…

  • A215 Short Fiction: Daprav – A Creation Myth

    As part of my Creative Writing course I need to write a short story for my next assignment. So rather than racking my brains about it I’ve been going back over stuff I’d written, but not finished, in the past for some inspiration. I also plan to do the exercises in the book to see…

  • Another side of the COIN

    I ran my game of being an Afghan farmer “The Other Side of the COIN” at the Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group’s (CLWG) annual conference yesterday afternoon. This was its second outing, you can see my onside report from the first run here. Since the last outing the game has developed further to address some of…

  • Ars Magica – Lumen

    Recently Lumen has been on a trip to Waddenzee with several of her friends from the covenant at Triamore. (See myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thelemur/ars/ars%20wus/1224b_april_wu.html for the write up). From her perspective the journey was mostly uneventful apart from: premonitions of the attack on the ship they were using (during which she mostly made attackers fall asleep); some searching…

  • The library of Triamore: Mundane tractatus

    http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/thelemur/ars/triamore/Covenant/mundane_tractatus.html Last night I joined in with Simon Cornelius’s Ars Magica campaign. My character is a female Mage (aka Maga) called Lumen, she’s a younger daughter of a French baron in the early thirteenth century. Blond, blue-eyed and slightly elfin like, the picture I have in my head of what she looks like is of…

  • CLWG December 1999

    What you missed at the Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group (CLWG) December 1999 meeting. The CLWG December 1999 meeting started from 12 at John Rutherford’s house and we played until after 9pm. Afterwards we chatted, with the aid of several bottles of wine, until almost midnight. In total we had 13 members at the meeting. It started…