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FIERCE ADVENTURES – Feels like the first time

Back in November, Fierce Adventures had its first show here in Vancouver. For the five of you who don't know what Fierce Adventures it's Dungeons & Dragons being played live on stage by the most fierce of all players - drag performers. It was a great game! I...

Some games just don’t happen

Tonight we were supposed to relaunch our Star Trek stream:Star Trek Payette. If you follow my Instagram, you know that didn’t happen.About an hour before game time l still could not get my Scene to work for OBS (a really tricky program for a noob by the way). It...

PUBLISHED

PUBLISHED

So something awesome has happened. I am officially a published author. As of today I am a content creator on the DMsGuild. I don't even know what else to say other than I hope you like it! https://www.dmsguild.com/product/242014/So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Goblin

Quests & Queers

Quests & Queers

In Vancouver? LGBTQIA2+ or an ally, and looking for somewhere to go to play games in a safe and fun encouraging environment? Have I got the event for you! Once a month at both the Storm Crow Tavern on Commercial and Storm Crow Alehouse on Broadway, I host Quests &...

From the Darkness, It Comes.

From the Darkness, It Comes.

You step out of the cramped dark tunnel and into a darker cavern, the smell of rot and decay fills  your nostrils as your eyes adjust in the weak light from your torch, something moves at the far end of the room and you realize the breeze you had felt briefly was a...

Toxic Fandom

Toxic Fandom

Have we geeks crossed a line? Allow me to wax poetic for a moment to a 'happier' time before social media. A time when you would decide from the trailers or by the leading star if you wanted to see a movie a not or to a time when you would watch a cartoon because your...

Celebrating Fumbles

Celebrating Fumbles

Most gaming systems run off a d20 rule set. That is, they use a twenty sided dice as their primary means of deciding success and failure. In most of these systems rolling a 20 is considered a critical hit or crit, while rolling a 1 is an automatic miss. In most...

Themed Games – Halloween Special

Themed Games – Halloween Special

I enjoy themed Games. I will have a game that will take on some of the cultural meta-narratives of our world and apply them to my own. Birthdays of the players often translate as the characters getting a gift in game when the birthday is close to game night, usually...

Remixed

Remixed

Storytelling in Roleplaying Games is a great thing. Really, it is the whole point of playing them: you are building a collaborative tale that is contributed to by all the players and the Game Master. Remixing is a big part of that for both the player and the GM . On a...