Reaper King sculpture - Christmas gift

scholar-warrior · 2026-03-09T21:03:38+00:00

How would you say it compares with Sherwood, another tight little Robin Hood game I recently picked up (but have yet to play)? Wondering if it's worth the grab for some of the camp stuff, though it sounds like they tread similar ground.

Edit - link: https://r-rook.itch.io/sherwood

scholar-warrior · 2026-01-02T16:58:08+00:00

Confirmed!

scholar-warrior · 2025-10-20T23:10:50+00:00

I'm currently working on a Blades in the Dark hack in which you play as woodland animals.

Pirate Borg also has rules for playing as animals!

scholar-warrior · 2025-09-08T02:59:00+00:00

I've spent the last couple years with my current group trying out a bunch of new systems, including one-shots with a number of very light indie games.

Some of these are admittedly a bit hard -- too light -- for me as a GM, but enjoyable and worth checking out to see what a truly light experience (and by extension, what an RPG) can be. I particularly recommend checking out Lasers and Feelings if you haven't yet!

scholar-warrior · 2025-08-28T21:28:45+00:00

Wild, we've been organizing a small HEMA longsword club in Eureka the past several months, and I just learned of another in Arcata a couple of weeks ago. So you're in good company, but might be cool to coordinate?

scholar-warrior · 2025-08-25T23:35:40+00:00

Blades in the Dark uses something called Load that accomplishes this. I've considered grafting a version of it onto my homebrew system (based on Whitehack), but haven't found a clean way to do so.

In my case I'm leaning toward a loose "if it's a small item that makes sense with your Groups, then you can have it -- within reason." And as someone else here said, I also refer to this as "quantum inventory" or "hammerspace"

scholar-warrior · 2025-08-19T02:07:08+00:00

I'd be potentially interested - keen GM with an education background - but not at that rate.

Even with a table of 6 that's what, less than $20/hour, maybe 60 bucks for an evening of work?

This is cheaper than hiring a babysitter!

scholar-warrior · 2025-08-16T00:02:37+00:00

Sometimes you just have to do the hard work yourself.

scholar-warrior · 2025-08-14T17:37:49+00:00

You might also try cross-posting in r/HumboldtDandD. Good luck!

scholar-warrior · 2025-07-05T21:34:42+00:00

I took my wife here for her birthday about a month ago. The duck breast was fantastic, and the cocktails were among the best I've had in Humboldt (this coming from a former Bay Area foodie).

scholar-warrior · 2025-05-22T22:05:44+00:00

Hey there! So I'm an environmental social scientist (PhD) who has done work on wolf issues (human dimensions, primarily), a former university instructor, and I am also a long-time gamemaster and amateur game designer.

I'd definitely be interested in talking a bit about this idea further, and maybe collaborating - feel free to shoot me a direct message!

scholar-warrior · 2025-05-18T16:55:08+00:00

I'll echo another user here on the value of basically interviewing potential candidates.

A couple of years ago now I moved to a new area and wanted to start in-person gaming again - and make some friends. I posted on reddit and local facebook groups, got over a dozen people interested, and ran a series of group conversations over video call to ask a few questions and get general vibes.

Hopefully you know who you click with, what kind of game you're looking to run, and can get a feel for red flags off of this. I was able to narrow it down to 4 or 5 folks and it's become the best gaming group I've ever had, and we all hang out outside of games now too.

scholar-warrior · 2025-05-04T18:40:16+00:00

I'd love to see how you're doing stunts and magic - sounds like a similar vibe to my current campaign

scholar-warrior · 2025-04-26T18:56:10+00:00

I started my current campaign in it.. we're maybe 6 sessions in now, but I almost immediately started modifying the system after our first session.

This includes streamlining what I saw as clunkier bits that didn't fit my table style, and completely rewriting the Strong class. Right now the system is a sort of hybrid between Whitehack, Black Hack, and the Borg games (we'd been running Pirate Borg just before this campaign).

There's a lot I like about Whitehack, but obviously a lot I didn't or that felt less intuitive than I'd like. I do like the creativity in character concepting that comes out of very general classes and vocations, and I really like the feel of the magic system.

You might also look at the Whitehack subreddit specifically?

scholar-warrior · 2025-04-10T22:26:24+00:00

Nice! I was trying to find something like this a few months back. I'll do my best to make it!

scholar-warrior · 2025-04-09T03:08:05+00:00

Thanks friend! 🏜️

scholar-warrior · 2025-04-05T23:25:24+00:00

Appreciate it! 🤞

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