Denis! @Gorgmorg@tabletop.social

Hey!

I‘m from Germany and I‘ve been playing RPGs for many years - over 20, I guess.

I love to write my own modules, and I am looking forward to try new worlds, new systems and just have fun with great people.

New stuff and OSR and some D&D, too. #introduction

I almost always feel a bit anxious about publishing stuff in an established world/setting. Perhaps some of you can relate – I think the relative lack of elaborate game worlds is one of the reasons for the OSR/old school community's high productivity and some of their often very creative ideas. On the other hand, I really love fantastic worlds – of COURSE I want to set something in Lankhmar, on the Dying Earth or Glorantha. But I want to do it right. Stuff is complicated, folks! 🤣 #tabletop

BUT the new and second issue of our german-language DCC Zine will be out for SPIEL digital in October or so – I wrote a lengthy module for that and I am hoping some folks will like it. I'll post more info and cover art when we get closer.

A little bit too tired to write anything worthwhile or GM well – I really need some time off work and I'll get it later this month. IF everything works out the way I planned it. Well…

Hey, are you still here? I took a really deep dive into gloranthan lore and oh yes, I loved every second. #tabletop #glorantha #runequest

I just finished and pressed „send mail“ for three projects I have been working on for some time. There is this great feeling of accomplishment, just short of holding a published, printed piece in your hand – but it is also so very scary. What if this is just not good at all? Anyway, we’ll see. #tabletop #writing

I could never settle on just one rule system forever. When I’ve played strory games for a while, I want to go old school. After I did some old school stuff, I just might go for a deep, long traditional campaign. Is it just me?

The first DCC zine in german. I really loved helping to put this together. #pnpde #dcc #zine

I have to say: I am really impressed by #Dungeondraft. CC3+ maystill be way more powerful, but this is actually fun to use and you get usable results quickly. It is also relatively cheap and well supported, but - being alpha - it crashes often. My mapping problems may be solved. #tabletop #mapping

I got the Lyonesse RPG by The Design Mechanism on a whim and because of my never-ending love of Jack Vance’s trilogy. It has lots of rules (Mythras/D%/BRP), it is 500+ pages and also POD/PDF only and it is *absolutely* not cheap. I should hate this mammoth of a game. But, instead I really like it – it helps that it is just beautiful and really a joy to read. I’ll probably never play this, but I sure hope I will. #tabletop

Feels good to be working on a module again. Especially because the writing really seems to flow well at the moment - obviously it did, because I completely forgot dinner. #pnpde

Well, this was tons of fun. Goodman Games may not be the most… digital of the publishers, but they do these workshops really well. The “Social Events” which a basically casual Zoom video conferences are a blast, too. So, they are doing some things right.

„How to Write Adventures That Don't Suck“ at Cyclops Con in a few minutes. Looking forward to it! #tabletop #dccrpg

Got some nice stuff in the mail: It’s James A. Pozenel’s „The House of the Red Doors“, a one-on-one 3rd party funnel module for DCC. This one is looking really nice, especially considering that it is „only“ a POD.
This’ll come handy as I am going to run a session with a single first time player soon. I really like that this is a dungeon, but somewhat deeper on another level. Great! #tabletop #dccrpg

So this worked out fine, I think. Lots (!) of technical difficulties on the side of the players - I learned like that good sound quality from mic and reliable video from the cam… is no problem on a mac, but absolutely not on a random cheapo notebook.

But the game itself went well. The players understood roll20 a LOT faster than myself and the tool did not get into our way, which I appreciate a lot. It helps that the module is not overly complicated, as is DCC. Fun. We’ll continue.

Well, this is it: My big premiere as a GM in Roll20. I’ll run DCC (so it should probably be „my premiere as a Judge“?) for my regular group and I prepared „The Queen of Elfland’s Son“ for them.

So this is that stage fright some people talk about!