Venger's old school gaming blog

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign_15.html

  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, ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/best-chaalt-character-on-sheet-contest.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/04/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign.html

  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 ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/03/garycon-2024-convention-report-part-1.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/03/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign_10.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/03/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/02/leap-day-biggest-chaalt-sale.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/02/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/01/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign.html

  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 ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2024/01/lore24-like-fucking-boss.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-chaalt-experience-kickstarter.html

  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) ...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/12/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign_17.html

  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...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/12/chaalt-webcomic-under-fuchsia-skaai.html

  There's so much to talk about regarding yesterday's game - session two of the Mysterious Qada'ath campaign set in the eldritch, gonzo, science-fantasy, post-apocalyptic world of Cha'alt....

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/12/mysterious-qadaath-chaalt-campaign.html

  We're finally back in campaign mode.  It's weird, I thought that after the first CHA'ALT campaign ended that I'd be relieved to go back to one-shots and mini-campaigns involving other RP...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/11/mysterious-qadaath-second-chaalt.html

  This is a topic that many game designers and GMs have tackled before, but I had a few ideas and wanted to get them down to see how they looked from a distance greater than inside my own h...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/11/downtime-between-adventures.html

  $25 CHA'ALT hardcovers... WTF?!? Cha'alt ?  Yes, it's my own eldritch, gonzo, science-fantasy, post-apocalypse campaign setting with humor, sleaze, pop-culture, and grindhouse exploita...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/11/black-friday-chaalt-hardcover-sale.html

  Sure, I've drilled-down the aesthetics of Cha'alt, the tropes that make the campaign setting what it is, thanks to my latest (free PDF) product Cha'alt X-Cards , but what about general k...

http://vengersatanis.blogspot.com/2023/11/chaalt-primer.html