Greetings from the edge,
Things are moving at a decent pace on my work-in-progress article, currently titled 11 Horror Movies That Get Scarier the More You Think About Them. It’s all about films that are unsettling on the surface, but become far more horrifying later on, when you’re brushing your teeth before bed and the full implications suddenly hit you like a brick in the dark.
It means I get to talk about some of my favourite horror films, some of the most critically acclaimed ever made, and at least one that nobody else seems to appreciate as much as I do.
I recently treated myself to The Ultimate RPG Campfire Card Deck, a set of 150 conversation-starting prompts designed to encourage in-character roleplaying. The cards cover everything from your character’s past and dreams to their companions, beliefs, and hypothetical situations.
The idea is simple: each player draws a card and asks one of their companions the question. The quality is excellent. The cards are about the size of standard playing cards, and the box feels sturdy enough to survive being thrown into a bag and hauled between game nights.
I’ll give it a full write-up once I’ve had the chance to playtest it properly, but even now, I can already see it being useful. If it doesn’t work for my players, it will still be invaluable for figuring out how important NPCs think and behave.
All of that can wait for now, though. I have a holiday home in Barovia demanding my attention.
I’m also working on organising my D&D notes, locations, NPCs, magic items, and all the other assorted debris that piles up around a campaign setting. It’s a lot of work putting everything into a usable format, but if I really am going to publish Valtheraine, I need to sit down and do the work.
That said, I may be able to kill two birds with one stone and turn it into a series of worldbuilding articles for TTRPGs. Something like Build a World in 80 Days has the right sort of Phileas Fogg energy and could be a lot of fun.
For now, though, I have a metric fuckton of chocolate to eat and a towering pile of reading to get through.
Happy Easter.
See you in the margins,
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