Confessions… (continued):Part Six: The Rise and Fall of a Dungeon Master in Mega-City One

Part Six: The Rise and Fall of a Dungeon Master in Mega-City One My first attempt of referring a RPG was at Judge Dredd: the game based on that Orwellian comic-book cop from the pages of 2000ad, and to my surprise the first couple of sessions went okay. I played it safe and ran the [...]

The Confessions of a Failed Dungeon Master: Part Five: How I Survived My First Death

Part Five: How I Survived My First Death As a player in my first campaign I was lucky enough to have a pretty decent DM. Looking back it was a fairly clichéd Greyhawk campaign, but, despite a bias towards his friends who were also players, the zit-ridden ref delivered it with charm and some nice [...]

The Confessions of a Failed Dungeon Master: Part 4: Us Against the World

Part 4: Us Against the World The hoard of The Stone Circle continued to grow. the hoard was predominately adolescent idiots, but briefly we did have a group of adults with us, experienced gamers from the first  generation of RPGs I suppose. I’m not sure what games they played, as they were in a separate [...]

The Confessions of a Failed Dungeon Master: Part 3: Build It and the Geeks Will Come…

Part 3: Build It and the Geeks Will Come… Anyway, time rolled on and at around the same time (still the first year of secondary school in case you are wondering) that I was desperate to get into role-playing, my mum was considering getting into doing youth work and thought she’d help set up a [...]

The Confessions of a Failed Dungeon Master: Part 2: The Citadel of Geeks

Part 2: The Citadel of Geeks Note: I will occasionally use the term ‘geek’ here and there as it is now become something of a norm in society and seems to be used widely by geeks and non-geeks (norms?) alike. In real life I rarely use it (nerd seems nicer to my ears), but in [...]

Confessions of a Failed Dungeon Master: Part One: School of Doom

  The Confessions of a Failed Dungeon Master: Part One: School of Doom Possibly the lamest memoirs of all-time, but that seems in keeping with what probably one of the lamest blogs of all-time. I doubt anyone will read it but as I’m having a RPG nostalgia trip at the mo , I thought I’d [...]