I was thinking about poetry on the way to drop my kids off at school this morning, and for whatever reason, haiku popped in my head. Why not a new form of haiku that conformed to sa...
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We just finished the 13th session. Normally, I write these session reports the day after, but tomorrow is Mother's Day, so I'm trying to get a jump on it now... and finishing Monday. ...
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This is a layout challenge! For my friend and awesome artist's (who worked on the CHA'ALT webcomic Under Fuchsia Ska'ai and illustrated a couple pieces for THE CHA'ALT EXPERIENCE) Ita...
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Great Purple Worm of Cha’alt Kra’adumek, Kra’adumek There’s no defeating you Kra’adumek, Kra’adumek Great Purple Worm of Cha’alt Basking ‘neath twice the su...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-chaalt-song.html
This week, we had only 3 players. Drogon the human sorcerer, Gorra the grog (sand construct) priest, and Juan Tufrifo the crystalline warrior. They leveled-up, and I asked them to...
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Every once in awhile, there's a session that shakes things up. The sleeper must awaken, and all that. The adventurers experience a setback that almost sort of actually resulted in a T...
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Almost 7 years ago, I blogged about this quote from Gary Gygax (image by Andrew McCormack)... a GM primarily rolls dice for the sound they make. It struck a chord in me back then, ev...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/living-world-living-story-best-of-both.html
Paddy's Parlor Games and I are running a contest. Paddy created the latest character sheet in the recently updated Advanced Crimson Dragon Slayer RPG. At the end of April, ...
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Fresh off of GaryCon, we continue the CHA'ALT campaign in our home game... 4 players - Nix the demon/clown thief, Juan Tufrifo the crystalline warrior, Drogon the human sorcerer, and Go...
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You may have read part 1 , already. But this is part 2 of my time at Gary Con XVI... As mentioned, I ran 6 games... 3 of them were CHA'ALT via ADVANCED CRIMSON DRAGON SLAYER. I dec...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/03/garycon-2024-convention-report-part-2.html
I got back yesterday afternoon from Gary Con. Overall, it was a great time! My notes and game prep stuff is in the car, and getting all that stuff would wake my sleeping wife who was ...
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Never before in the anals of history (and if you haven't taken anal history with Ms. Tush, I highly recommend it) has there ever been a shot like the one that blasted the Ark of the Coven...
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Finally, we are back from our unexpected hiatus. Thanks for tuning in. I think you'll be pleased to read about this particular game... it was bananas! We returned with 4 players - D...
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Aside from my 5 children, CHA'ALT might just be my greatest accomplishment. For one unbelievable day ... February 29th, Leap Day, I'm selling the gorgeous, professionally printed, signe...
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I should be blogging about the prior weekend's CHA'ALT campaign, but alas only 2 of the 6 players could make it. So, I had to cancel. Not a total loss because I got to spend even more...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/02/game-master-to-rich-famous.html
I somehow accidentally stumbled upon this blog post from 2016 where someone was reviewing one of the worst RPGs ever made, EMPIRE OF SATANIS, written by me... and the blogger included my ...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-curse-of-venger-satanis.html
Huzza'ah for the bare minimum! I have a personal rule that I don't run virtual games for less than 2 people and live, in-person games for less than 3. So, I was thankful that we had 3...
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This was a fun-filled session. It's important to remember that fun should usually go hand-in-tentacle with immersion... not always, but most of the time. Same goes for movies. T...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/01/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign_28.html
It's that time, hoss. July, especially for those of us surrounded by ice and snow, seems like a long ways away... but really it's only 6 months from now. I really want VENGER CON ...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/01/calling-all-gamers-for-venger-con-iii.html
Sometimes, I run meandering, stream of consciousness sessions, other times they're dungeoncrawls or standard sandboxes of wandering around and the PCs find adventure where they can. Thi...
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I noticed that Lore24 was something the RPG bloggers were doing this year. Last year was the megadungeon-23 project. So it goes... And it just so happens that world building is the ...
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This session was managed with a skeleton crew. Myself and 3 players did what we had to do in order to keep the campaign going through this God forsaken holiday season. A lot happened ...
http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/12/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign_31.html
It's been a little while since I've launched a Kickstarter campaign. Well, now's the time to fund THE CHA'ALT EXPERIENCE: DESIGNING WORLDS LIKE A FUCKING BOSS. Here's the link . It...
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We're back again with another session report because our normally scheduled gaming would have put us too close to Christma'as... Regardless, the holidays (and other unfortunate events) ...
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Yes, it's out! You can get it here . Going into this project, I never could have guessed all the time and energy that went into this thing. Specifically, I'm talking about the phen...
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