Introductions
I don’t know if it’s proper blog etiquette (if there even is blog etiquette) to have an “Introduction” post. Perhaps only the first few lucky readers, and those dedicated diehards who end up reading through dozens of posts, will ever actually find this post! But who cares!
This website, The RPG Study, will be my attempt to catalog my thoughts and experiences regarding tabletop role playing games. I have been playing (and specifically Game Mastering) these games for about ten years now, and I’ve read a lot of different rules systems and adventures. But the problem is that I’ve played far less than I would like to.
As a result, my head is always swimming with adventure hooks and campaign ideas. Encounters, monsters and character builds. With a full time job and a family, I know I’ll never get to use even half of the content that I wish I could.
So it dawned on me, what if I share these ideas? What if I created a place where I could discuss these ideas, get them out of my own brain, and maybe, just maybe, help someone else’s game in the process? And so the RPG Study was born.
I’m a firm believer in the principles of “lonely fun”, a concept I first learned about from Mike Shea of the Sly Flourish blog on one of his many appearances on the Tome Show Podcast.
If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of lonely fun definitely check out the link to the DM David blog above, but in a nutshell, it’s all the time that we GM’s spend creating content, reading rules books and adventures and just generally thinking about our games by ourselves. If you’re a GM like me, this is pretty much all the time.
Thus, the goal of the RPG Study is to help me organize, categorize and record my moments of “lonely fun” and hopefully to engage in a discussion with you, the reader, turning it from lonely fun to just fun.
In the articles to follow, you will see an ongoing mix of my reactions to content I’ve read and digested, events and thoughts about my ongoing campaigns, and various rules and adventures I’ve always wanted to make for games I know I’ll never get to play.
I hope in the days and weeks to follow you find the content here at the RPG Study useful and interesting. Keep an eye out, there’s so much more to come!
This website, The RPG Study, will be my attempt to catalog my thoughts and experiences regarding tabletop role playing games. I have been playing (and specifically Game Mastering) these games for about ten years now, and I’ve read a lot of different rules systems and adventures. But the problem is that I’ve played far less than I would like to.
As a result, my head is always swimming with adventure hooks and campaign ideas. Encounters, monsters and character builds. With a full time job and a family, I know I’ll never get to use even half of the content that I wish I could.
So it dawned on me, what if I share these ideas? What if I created a place where I could discuss these ideas, get them out of my own brain, and maybe, just maybe, help someone else’s game in the process? And so the RPG Study was born.
I’m a firm believer in the principles of “lonely fun”, a concept I first learned about from Mike Shea of the Sly Flourish blog on one of his many appearances on the Tome Show Podcast.
If you’re unfamiliar with the idea of lonely fun definitely check out the link to the DM David blog above, but in a nutshell, it’s all the time that we GM’s spend creating content, reading rules books and adventures and just generally thinking about our games by ourselves. If you’re a GM like me, this is pretty much all the time.
Thus, the goal of the RPG Study is to help me organize, categorize and record my moments of “lonely fun” and hopefully to engage in a discussion with you, the reader, turning it from lonely fun to just fun.
In the articles to follow, you will see an ongoing mix of my reactions to content I’ve read and digested, events and thoughts about my ongoing campaigns, and various rules and adventures I’ve always wanted to make for games I know I’ll never get to play.
I hope in the days and weeks to follow you find the content here at the RPG Study useful and interesting. Keep an eye out, there’s so much more to come!
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