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I think I started volunteering at the Jack of Dice booth in 2016, and somewhere in 2017 I dared to ask: can I please give D&D demo's? To introduce people to the hobby, was my excuse. The real reason: to play more D&D with as many people as possible. The folks at Jack fell for my trap (I did roll a nat20) and since then I have been hosting 1-hour D&Demo games at various festivals and the occasional games convention.
After a very long break (due to the global working from home exercise) I had a chance to dive back into it; last week was Castlefest 2022. Since I had plenty of time to prepare I had a bunch of new characters to choose from for the players, both level 1 and level 5 this time. I had a nice little adventure. And of course I had plenty of 3d printed terrain.
I was very, very ready for this, and I had been looking forward to this for ... well... years!
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*** SPOILERS *** do not proceed if you do not want spoilers for the adventure 'Invasion from the Planet of Tarrasques'
Yesterday was my birthday, and last weekend I celebrated that. On saturday with family and on sunday with a oneshot with friends. We had agreed to do a level 20 Go Nuts oneshot, because when can you ever go nuts with a level 20 character? This was the day!
After planning it I soon discovered that making an adventure for level 20 characters is complicated, and making an interesting oneshot even more so. What do you put on the proverbial other side of the playing field that is actually interesting for creatures that have near-godlike powers?
Whilst googling and getting a bit deperate I suddenly found THE adventure on Dungeon Masters Guild:
Invasion from the Planet of Tarrasques (dun dun dunnnnnn)
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In my previous blog I wrote about how speedpaint helped me get a lot of mini's painted in not much time, and how that got me to decide I was going to practise my mini-painting skills so I would be able to make prettier mini's. Nothing chanced with my decision and I have gotten even more determined. I started practising and I discovered I really enjoy painting eyes. I still suck at it, but that is why it is called practise.
One other thing I did was sort my stash, my box of unpainted mini's, the Pile of Shame or Opportunity (depending on my mood). I discovered to my horror that I did not really have mini's I wanted to practise on.
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When I started DM-ing a while back (december 2014 was my maiden session) I also got interested in miniatures. They enhance the mood on the map, even if that map is just a big piece of paper with marker-scribbles where the trees are, and give both the players and myself a good sence of what is going on. I already had a few mini's and some paint, courtesy of a friend who decided he did not like to paint Warhammer armies after all. So I visited the Warhammer shop, got a nice dwarf mini (that I still have and love), some instructions and a new hobby was now part of my life. A hobby that I have had a love-hate relationship with until recently.
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When I get a chance to dive into something I am enthusiastic about, I will. There is no way I could choose not to because my inner toddler just runs at it like a labradoodle after a ball.
So when de RPG Props kickstarter by Props&Beyond came to live and had a facebook page and a discord channel I was in, and present. I got a chance to do some test-prints and together with some other excited enthusiasts I became an ambassador (which is a fancy title for 'get to do some test printing and bounce about it on the socials'). Of course I bragged about my RPG campaigns (as I always do), and some time ago I was asked if I would like to give an interview about being a GM. I did not mind at all, I love talking, writing and chatting about the hobby!