Sean Does Games

I was relaxing in my little walled courtyard, reading Hotel Berlin 1943 and partaking in this year’s harvest of Sam Adams Oktoberfest, when my phone began to frantically inform me of an astonishing turn of events. People were tweeting on Twitter. Tweets! Twitter! On! Utterly baffled by this bizarre news (who would ever use Twitter to tweet), I dutifully opened the app. Among the hundreds of wonderful tweets in my feed, I found a simple question that caught my attention. "How did you get started in role-playing games?” I was about to fire off a short reply when I realized that this was something I could blog about instead. What follows, then, is a tedious brief scene of young Pyramus, and his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth. No. Wait. That’s a different story by a far better writer. Let's try again. What follows, then, is wonderfully brilliant monologue of my life-long love of games, much dice-rolling goodness. Someone had to write it. That someone might as well b...

Like other DMs and GMs, I have a set of recurring locales that appear in just about every campaign I've run. Some even cross genres and are updated accordingly but the core concept, NPCs, and purpose remain the same.  In a previous blog post, I wrote about Skyfell, one of my homebrew campaign settings. In this post, I'm writing about the WhatNot Shop, a store that appears in that and other settings. I've even used this store as the backdrop to some of my DMs Guild offerings (see the links below). I hope you enjoy this locale. Feel free to use it in your own homebrew campaigns and let me know if you do. The WhatNot Shop The WhatNot Shop is a lopsided building in the heart of Garrison Market. It’s easy enough to spot. Just look for a place where a hodgepodge of architectural elements have been slammed into each other with the ceremonial pomp and forethought of the tail-end of an all-night pub crawl. Given its appearance, it’s quite understandable that the reactio...