Friday, October 23, 2020

Heart Attacks and Other Fun

So... I had a series of small heart attacks (I didn't know that's what they were) culminating in a massive heart attack back in September (on 09/11, weirdly), which has resulted in me re-thinking a lot of my life.

With regard to hobbyist pursuits, I'm dedicating real time and effort to running some RPGs again, before I'm shuffled off the mortal coil. First up: 

Faerûn Through a Glass Darkly

You all know Faerûn, but not this Faerûn. This Faerûn is different. Darker. Stranger. This is the Twilight Zone. The Outer Limits. Tales From the Darkside. Step into another realm. A realm of the strange and surreal. The weird. The dark and the dangerous. This is Faerûn Through a Glass Darkly. A truly forgotten realm. 

Built on a chassis of the original Forgotten Realms first edition box set, Faerûn Through a Glass Darkly is an episodic “acid fantasy” campaign of high weirdness. Revisit an old favorite through a new lens!

Faerûn Through a Glass Darkly will be run using Advanced Labyrinth Lord (a D&D Basic/Expert clone) with additional content from James Spahn’s Class Compendium and Petty Gods (by numerous authors). 

Ideally, I’ll be running this at The Yellow King in Colorado Springs, but due to health issues compounded by the current national health crisis, I may have to run the game on Discord (I have my own server set up for such, complete with dice bot and a free VTT solution). 

Expect to see more information on this here, soon-ish.