Welcome to Killer Dice, a blog to share experiences and content for those who find themselves constantly rolling metaphorical ones in the RPG world.
I really hate introductions. It always seems so false, fake and forced, which I suppose it is. For those of you not interested in this, skip this post and go on to the next one and you can pick it up from there.
By way of introduction, I am Ding, a DM or GM of moderate experience with a deep interest, if not knowledge, in RPGs that started at the age of about 10. I initially played a stripped down version of the basic Dungeons and Dragons set (which I inexplicably called “Quest”) when I couldn’t quite work out or explain the rules to my players, and I’ve taken a similar philosophy in my games following that by being notoriously “rules-light”.
My most successful campaign has been a Science Fiction campaign loosely based around the GURPS rules that started with me trying to explain the concept of a tabletop role playing game during a power cut and never quite finished, lasting many months after that ill fated afternoon. It was during this campaign that I learnt that you can never trust a player to do what you expect, and that you will never expect some of the things a player will do. I’m still bitter that they shot my favourite NPC ally in the head.
I have also run some brief Dungeons and Dragons sessions and am about to start a campaign using a homebrew setting and 3.5 edition rules which I hope to share with you in the near future, maybe even in the form of a PDF download when it becomes fully fleshed out as I hope it will.
Also in the pipeline is the system of “Dungeons and Drinking”, a game system that I am pioneering for when sobriety is no longer an option at the table.
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