I Don’t Want Your Character to Die—I Want Them to Live With It I want a game with stakes. I also don’t want characters to be disposable fodder where somebody dies, shrugs, and rolls up another character five minutes later. That style of play is pretty...
I have personally been play-testing the setting of Samhain for six years now. A few weeks back, I decided to resurrect the 13RPG system I had put together, lay it over Samhain, tweak what needed tweaking, and begin using it exclusively in my weekly games. It has very...
Today, as far as I am concerned, begins “spooky season.” I am not sure how I feel about that phrase, spooky season. It just sounds like something Martha Stewart would say, and it is more on the side of cutesy than frightening, but I’ll try not to...
Chipping Away at the Samhain Oracle Deck Well, here I am on a flip day. That is, instead of going in for work in the morning, I am going to work in the afternoon. So, drawing was on the menu today. Between last night and this morning I was able to get two more cards...
I am getting really close to releasing the play-test rules to the 13th Circle tier on Patreon. I have been working like a madman to make a good core representation of what I want for the Samhain Hearth & Horror RPG for those play-test games. Oh, you didn’t...
I just recently got these “candy corn” dice and I used them in my last Samhain session. I tend to roll out in the open in front of the players for initiative, d6 side initiative, and let me tell you these d6s were on fire. I rolled so many 6s in a row. It...
