
Live your life one dice roll at a time

Live your life one dice roll at a time
So late to the party you can barely still smell the lilac and gooseberries.
It took me ten years and four or five attempts, but I finally discovered why The Witcher 3 got 10/10 on Steam and Gamespot, 95% “User liked this on Google”, 250+ awards and Game of The Year in 2015 (!).…
Numenera: The 9.2th world
Starting back at Numenera! Our third game in the Ninth World is a continuation of the game we were playing when COVID struck. It was a pretty good time to take a break, and if it had been a planned…
Numenera 2: Glossary
Wow! It wasn’t until I actually sat down to collate all of these that I remembered how rich this setting was – and created in such a short time. I’m also delighted to see that almost none of this is…
Wedding Crashers
The grateful peasants were falling over themselves to thank the samurai for saving them. The little girl gifted Koji with a crude-but-adorable little protective talisman that looked like a peasant girl in her finest festival clothes. The parents gifted them…
Into the thick of it
The news that the big Unicorn/Lion alliance was OFF was big. The wedding of Shinjo Altansarnai and Ikoma Anakazu (the Khan of Khans/Champion of the Unicorn and the Ikoma Daimyo, respectively) would settle the remaining tension regarding the Unicorn’s re-claiming…
We had the best time at your party
Fortuitously, I’d had the idea for the Moon Viewing as a way of interacting with the Tortoise Clan a mere week before the excellent article Running an Intrigue appeared on Jeanne Kalvar’s excellent L5R-fan website (). I wanted to try…
Working the docks, busting up kidnap gangs, getting ready for a fancy party.
The yoriki’s investigations took them all over Slow Tide Harbour to meet the people Otomo Hiroshige knew and go to the places he frequented. Some of that was more useful than others and while they missed a lot of potential…
Taimana Choryu
Taimana Choryu, or Slow Tide Harbour, is a busy port on the Bay of the Golden Sun, further north along the shore from the great capital city of Otosan Uchi. It does – by anyone’s estimation – a brisk amount…
The road through Dry Path Village
The Emerald Magistrate had a few tasks for his new Yoriki, that would take them eastwards towards the coastal settlement of Slow Tide Harbor. First they must meet with his dear friend, Doji Hiroka and hear a problem that they…