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Our need to visualize the imagery of RPGs

Avatars and our need to visualize the imaginary

When we play tabletop games, we often take roles. It’s a necessity with games like Dungeons & Dragons or Call of Cthulhu. It’s a tool for better immersion in board...

Avatars and our need to visualize the imaginary

When we play tabletop games, we often take roles. It’s a necessity with games like Dungeons & Dragons or Call of Cthulhu. It’s a tool for better immersion in board...

My adventures in Middle-Earth

My adventures in Middle-Earth

For anyone who knows me or follows this blog, it will be no secret that J.R.R. Tolkien’s work has had a certain impact on my interpretation of all things fantasy....

My adventures in Middle-Earth

For anyone who knows me or follows this blog, it will be no secret that J.R.R. Tolkien’s work has had a certain impact on my interpretation of all things fantasy....

Free Character Sheets for Adventures in Middle-Earth 5E

Free Character Sheets for Adventures in Middle-...

Back in my early days of playing tabletop games, I always felt compelled to make custom character sheets for the various games we played. Without knowing it, I was taking...

Free Character Sheets for Adventures in Middle-...

Back in my early days of playing tabletop games, I always felt compelled to make custom character sheets for the various games we played. Without knowing it, I was taking...

Here be dragons - Red Dragon

Here be dragons

Fearsome and often depicted as bringers of dread, dragons have played a big part in bringing fantasy worlds to life. From Tolkien’s Smaug to Dungeons & Dragons's chromatic and coloured...

Here be dragons

Fearsome and often depicted as bringers of dread, dragons have played a big part in bringing fantasy worlds to life. From Tolkien’s Smaug to Dungeons & Dragons's chromatic and coloured...

Painting tabletop RPG miniatures

Tabletop miniatures: it’s the little things

Board games and role-playing games procure many benefits all while allowing us to spend quality time with friends and family. They can teach us many valuable skills as children and...

Tabletop miniatures: it’s the little things

Board games and role-playing games procure many benefits all while allowing us to spend quality time with friends and family. They can teach us many valuable skills as children and...

Turn based strategy tabletop and video games

Gallantly ruthless battles - the world of turn ...

A fancy name for something really quite straightforward. Yet, turn based strategy games often offer tremendous depth, all on the basis of simple rules. Two opponents face off, often with...

Gallantly ruthless battles - the world of turn ...

A fancy name for something really quite straightforward. Yet, turn based strategy games often offer tremendous depth, all on the basis of simple rules. Two opponents face off, often with...