The Periodic Gaming Table

As you may know I recently (well, end of 2018) finished a very long running 4th Edition D&D campaign.  If you missed it, there are a series of articles on my other blog, starting here . As we fancied a break from fantasy role playing, that group has gone on to play Call of Cthulhu, and there are blogs on here going over the process of constructing the first investigation starting here. I am also running a mostly different group of players through the D&D 5th Edition starter set Lost Mine of Phandelver at my FLGS, and we are coming to the end of that adventure, so I'll need something to run afterwards.  We had considered continuing with the characters, possibly going on to something like Storm King's Thunder, probably adapted for Mystara and starting at chapter 3.  But several of the players want the opportunity to start from scratch, perhaps choosing a little differently for their characters.  Although the Lost Mine set includes pregens and each has its l...

I'm running Call of Cthulhu again This is a brief look at how I plan to begin a short series of Call of Cthulhu investigations.  I'm trying to be a lot more organised in how I go about things, so this is helping me get my thoughts together for the game. My History with Call of Cthulhu I read H.P. Lovecraft long before there was ever a game based on his works.  In fact, I was introduced to the Mythos by a fellow D&D player when I was in sixth form.  Not surprisingly, elements of the Mythos crept into (infected?) our games back then, but I don't think any of us thought of running games set around Lovecraft's time or in his world. A few years later I was at uni, and one of my home gaming group began entertaining me with letters about his CoC games.  (Dave, we miss you).  It sounded great fun, especially as he presented a lot of them as letters from his character, I don't believe he made it off R'lyeh (Shadows of Yog-Sothoth).  I bought the second ed...

Welcome. Welcome, whether you've stumbled across this or if you're a reader of my ' Periodic Painting Table ' blog, come inside, pull up a seat, grab a drink and make yourself comfortable . Thrice welcome. Why am I doing another Blog? It has become obvious to  me recently that I have a bit to say about how I go about designing adventures for RPGs.  I spent a lot of virtual ink recently on the other blog ( starting here ), going on (and on) about my long running 4th Edition D&D campaign, and, while I wanted to say the stuff, perhaps it didn't belong there (apart from the post about how I crafted for the games).  Hence this new enterprise. What is it all about? What can you expect to find on here?  Well probably a lot less than on my other blog, both in number and frequency of posts.  One thing I am going to be using it for is to ponder the choices I make for my next campaign.  If you are wondering why, it helps me to organise my thoughts in this...