Venerable Friday!

It definitely is for us.

After our adventures in Switzerland, we have taken a well deserved rest.

That gave us the opportunity to find out that Saúl is very much vulnerable to radiant damage (he looks like a crab right now).

These vacations have given me time to think.

If you are reading this newsletter, you are probably an imaginative person.

And we love to reward imaginative people. Keep on reading, I’ll tell you how.

But right now…

Retreat to a Resort in Barovia

With these last conventions we have had to pause our Curse of Strahd campaign.

(You know the one: Dracula but it’s D&D)

The good thing about summer is that we have way more opportunities to get together with our party and actally get to play.

For me, that means that I’ll have to prep a lot of stats, locations… but, above all, NPCs.

Yeah, in D&D you usually have to prep a dungeon (you know, like the one on the name of the game) for your players to explore.

But not my players. They need the lore.

Soy they start thoroughly interrogating every NPC they encounter so that they can have an sliver more of information. And if they have already killed someone… No problem! They’ll just revive them, interrogate them again and kill them again (RIP Lady Watcher).

In a way, that’s why I put magnets into my DM screens.

I needed to have comprehensive notes on which character knows what and be able to skim through different characters quickly without having to open the book everytime.

So that’s what I’m doing right now. Sitting on my desk. Writing cheat sheets like crazy.

Isn’t summer the season for resting?

Yes.

But for me it’s also the creating season.

During this time of the year conventions slow down and we seize this momento to unleash our creative chaos.

How does it work?

It usually involves me invading the whole flat with cardboard, drafts and paper notes while Saúl watches me swing between tearing my hair out and laughing hysterically.

Ah… I love the creative process.

After this ritual, the new products that will be decorating your game table are materialized.

I have a thousand ideas: New DM Screens, bigger dice with miniatures inside, polishing the player’s campaign journal… and a DM Journal.

Unfortunately I can’t do everything at once. Saúl is my only minion, and believe me when I say you don’t want to see him crafting (if you can even call it that).

So, my crafty little hands can only do so much. That’s why I want to ask you… What would you like to see at your game table?

There’s no such thing as a too crazy idea. You play TTRPGs: You are well-off for imagination.

The most original idea will get a gift.

A physical one.

A real one.

A unique one.

Right now we don’t have much else to tell. We are still wrapping our heads around going back to the routine and to the studio.

See you next week. Same place, same time.

Bountiful quests and successful rolls!

🦉 Irene the Wizard

🦃 Saúl the Bard

P.D: The gift is something unique nobody else will have. I swear.