Tales of the Hungry GM #4: Dramatis Personae

When it comes to NPC bookkeeping, I feel that the Alexandrian’s Universal NPC Roleplaying Template is an excellent resource, and I recommend that everyone go and read that article. I’ll be using it to prepare my NPCs for Legacy of Disaster, and the purpose of this post is to provide my own context for a …

Tales of the Hungry GM #3: The Cursed Blades

Go to Part 1… By now, the PCs are likely headed toward the mountains north of Wachimasu, where the climax of this scenario will occur. Node 7: Kazumi and the Bandits Even after reading through this adventure twice, the idea that the Fire Tiger bandits just spawn at the PCs’ location if they waited too …

Tales of the Hungry GM #2: Wachimasu

Go to Part 1… So far, our node structure for Legacy of Disaster looks like this: It is important to mention that there is nothing sacred about the links between nodes 2, 3, and 4 (the guard post in Tochigi). The PCs could conceivable reach node 4 from any node in Tochigi, but the linked …

Tales of the Hungry GM #1: Preparing L5R “Legacy of Disaster”

My wife describes me as the sort of GM who is always trying to build a better lunchbox (no, she definitely meant lunchbox). I am dogged in my pursuit of better materials for my lunchbox, for blueprints to help make my lunchbox more robust. One of the things that I find most beneficial in my …