Sword’s Edge Publishing

The long awaited session two summary.
If you’ve listened to the “Story So Far” at the Adventures of the Ottawa Warband, you don’t really need to read this.
So, our heroes had set off after Sven, in the hopes of reaching Balagard first.
Historical note: I made Balagard an island in the south-west of Finland. There is mention [...]

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If you’ve been reading my campaign journal, you know a little something about the Viking campaign I’m running for my RPG group in Ottawa. I decided I wanted to do an actual play, and the first steps have been completed. The first episode, a “story so far” episode, is now available.
You can find information at [...]

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The first session didn’t totally sell me on True20. I realized this was partly my problem. I was still stuck in a d20 mindset. I missed the Minons rule, which would have made the combat with Hygelac’s warband fit to my preconception. Also, while the iconic weapon concept I mentioned in my last post dealt [...]

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The Campaign Journal has kind of stagnated, hasn’t it? Let’s get this puppy back on the rails.
So, the first session.
I had forced the players to provide character concepts without the mechanics. This was kind of a history meets character niche posting. This was what we used to build the characters in True20.  It worked surprisingly [...]

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Before I went forward with the game, before I put more work than a basic outline and intro scenario, I wanted to meet the crew I had assembled. There was one reason and one reason only: I didn’t want to game with someone with whom I wouldn’t be willing to sit down at a coffee [...]

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In the previous post, I described how I got the group together. But once that group is together, then what?
I gave lots of options as to what we could play. I was going away to Korea for a month, so I wanted to have an idea of what we would be playing before I left. [...]

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So, I finally got a group together to game in Ottawa. It took some time and no small amount of effort, and I won’t claim complete success until we’re in the campaign swing, but I am optimistic.
Given that I am finally going to be able to start a new campaign, I thought it would be [...]

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