Alex Keane

Lover of Fiction and Games

Category: Gameplay Updates

  • Demotivational poster with image of thousdands of dice reading: Shadowrun, where else are you going to use three pounds of 6-siders

    My Experiences as Designated GM, Part 2: Shadowrun

    This is a continuation from an earlier post about my experiences GMing. My move to Michigan coincided with a bit of a break from the GM’s seat. Even though I found my Michigan group within a couple weeks of my move, the group had a DM for the weekly D&D and Pathfinder games. So for…

  • My Experiences as Designated DM, Part 1

    My Experiences as Designated DM, Part 1

    Header Image Courtesy of Thomas Dippel licensed under CC BY 2.0 As I was moving some boxes, I came across the external hard drives I had in college which contain my notes from the RPGs I played in college with my first gaming group. Which got me started thinking about all the DM lessons I…

  • Cover of 13th Age, Showing Heroes Surrounded By Monsters

    Experience with the 13th Age Playtest

    It’s been a while since the last gameplay update I made that wasn’t also mainly a review of the module or system I used. On Saturday night, my group tried out the playtest for the new edition of 13th Age. We handled both the creation of our characters and playing through an adventure during a…

  • Dungeon23 Plans

    If you’re online in TTRPG spaces, you’ve probably seen posts talking about the Dungeon23 challenge, creating a 365 room, 12-level, megadungeon one room a day. It’s a challenge that sounded fun to me, because I am the exact type of person who hears “create another campaign while still running this one” and thinks it’s a…

  • We Be Heroes – Pathfinder Playtest/Second Edition

    We Be Heroes – Pathfinder Playtest/Second Edition

    [We Be Heroes](https://paizo.com/products/btq01x4i) is a free adventure produced by Paizo, originally for the Pathfinder Playtest ahead of the release of Pathfinder Second Edition.

  • Current Game

    Current Game

    Twilight Falls is my Pathfinder 2e home game in a setting I developed using James D’Amato’s Ultimate RPG Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide. We’ve played about 8 sessions across most of 2022.