A Beginning

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About fourty years ago I played my first game of Dungeons and Dragons. Soon after I played my first game as the Dungeon Master. From that game onward I was hooked.

Ten years after those first games the group I played in became too separated to make playing practical and none of us felt play by post offered a compeling experience. Consequently the group died out. Life took me on a journey that did not include any role playing.

A few weeks ago my best friend, and one of the players from my old group, contacted me saying he had wandered into a game shop and was reminded of those old D&D sessions, perhaps I was interested in DMing one.

Well, that started something.

I discovered I had missed out on so much in the entervening years. Play online now offers a realistic option for reviving my old passion. Cue a lot a reading the D&D 5e rules, watching YouTube videos, checking out online games, and sampling a few professionally DM’d sessions as a player. I now feel ready to start reviving my DM game.

Now, being me, I never do anything the simple way 😉.

I always enjoyed world building for my group’s adventures and with todays tools that process is so much fun I can’t resist. Combine this with my technical background, access to the internet, and a borderline obsession with verisimilitude, and you get this blog and all it entails.

Here are my current plans (briefly).

  1. Blog my journey (here).
  2. Make YouTube videos about my journey.
  3. Create the world of Mondarth (see the Codex).
  4. Run an assortment of game tables:
    1. Run one shot campaigns (these will be ‘donate to support’ and aimed at providing a gateway for new players).
    2. Run mini-campaigns (these will be pay-to-play and intended to give players a taste of my DM style without commiting to long campaigns).
    3. Run full campaigns in Mondarth (the will be pay-to-play).
  5. Run Patreon (free and paid offering access to materials developed along the way, early access to table seats,, etc.).
  6. Run Discord (community building and access to games).