One more delve. One more torch left.

It seems that I have left this blog by the wayside, which is a shame. The commitments of work have endowed me with a dearth of time over the past few years and the endless the lack of compulsion to write anything here has compounded this. However, it seems that given the circumstances of The Plague and the extra time it has given me that I should like to post some more things here, which have always been little more than a random assemblage of my interests without much forethought or care.

Clement Atlee once said of the final volume of Churchill’s A History of the English Speaking Peoples that it should have been entitled ‘Things From History that I find Interesting’ due it’s random and unfocused content. He had a point, but so did Churchill and his animus infests this sort of blog like the wriggling necromantic magic in your common garden variety zombie. Though ‘Things About Tabletop Gaming that I Find Interesting’ might be better for me.

So I am back. For how long? I couldn’t really say, but as has always been my intention with this blog, everything I post should on some level be future-proof and that’s why it largely composes reviews and gaming resources I have put together. It will likely continue this in this vein, though I would like to reflect more on my RPG interests and perhaps include a battle-report or two.

I am currently running four campaigns of various types: A 5th edition campaign in which I am running the classic Tracy and Laura Hickman, et al Dragonlance Campaign, I’m running a BECMI/Old School Essentials homebrew Campaign and a BECMI campaign of the 5th edition module, Tomb of Annihilation. In addition, over the first lockdown and since I rewrote the classic Warhammer Quest into a book that is much more involved and am actively involved in playing a campaign of this semi-regularly. In addition, with one group I am roughly two thirds of the way through the classic Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign for Call of Cthulhu, though unfortunately, this campaign has been furloughed due to The Plague.

Wargaming wise, I am occupying my time by slowly building up a Warhammer Fantasy Battles 6th Edition Empire Army both in preparation for the rerelease of that game, and also just because I enjoy 6th edition far more than the others.

So to reward you for reading the above, and to start things off as I mean to continue, I have included a link to a one-page dungeon I wrote and ran a few months ago. My players (in my BECMI homebrew campaign world) were exploring a short tomb in a region that is roughly analogous to India, with heavy flavourings of the visual language from The Elder Scrolls – Morrowind. The dungeon smacks of OSR style and is an ancestor tomb that has been taken over by a parasitic fly-creating monster. It took my party a session to clear the dungeon and they were level three at the time.

If you run or read this one page dungeon, let me know what you think of it!