Lou Anders

YouTube

Two Videos of Note

Hi all Yesterday, two videos went up on the Lazy Wolf Studios YouTube Channel. First, I posted a page-by-page walkthrough of Kobold Press' Game Master's Guide. I'm a really big fan of Tales of the Valiant, which I think is currently the best expression of

Actual Play

We're going off script...

Last Wednesday, we played the second half of the 5th level Tales of the Valiant adventure, Tomb of the Frost Giant. And with that, three of my five players have now played through everything that is currently published or forthcoming for Norrøngard. (The bulk of it was played before we

VTT

We're on Fantasy Grounds!

Lazy Wolf Studios is now on Fantasy Grounds! Specifically, the adventure, Vengeance of the Valravn, debuts today. Here are some screenshots of the adventure in Fantasy Grounds: Vengeance of the Valravn is Lazy Wolf Studios' first offering on Fantasy Grounds. How it performs will of course dictate how many

Gen Con

Post Gen Con & Battle Posts

I recently attended my second ever GenCon and the first convention anywhere in which I played RPGs at the con. Held from July 31st to August 3rd in Indianapolis, GenCon pulled in around 70,000 people, but for all that, it wasn't the mad house I expected. In

Gen Con

Xmas in July, Gen Con, and Backerkit Preorders, Oh My!

First some news! It's Christmas in July on DriveThruRPG. Every Thrones & Bones title from Lazy Wolf Studios is on sale for 30% off now and for the next seven days! If you've ever wanted to pick up our campaign setting, for example, you can get

Dungeons & Dragons

BFRD in the CC!

Hi all, There's a bit of industry news that dropped this morning. It's exciting for folks who make roleplaying game content, more so than those who aren't creators, but it still impacts players in some interesting ways. The thing that enables third party publishers

Actual Play

Tomb Raiding...

Last night we played Tomb of the Frost Giant. Our intrepid crew got most of the way through the adventure, but we left off on a cliffhanger (literally) and we'll finish next Wednesday. We nearly had a TPK in the first encounter, but, as they so often do,

Moonbeam

We're Back

Yup. Our valiant heroes are back tomorrow night for another actual play in the land of Norrøngard. We'll be playing Tomb of the Frost Giant, a one-shot (maybe two shots?) adventure for 5th level characters set in the frozen land of Norrøngard. We'll be steaming this

Dungeons & Dragons

Lou's Labyrinth

While I was away, my favorite TTRPG publisher, Kobold Press, brought out their Labyrinth Worldbook and its companion volume, Labyrinth Adventures. The Labyrinth is Kobold Press' new "campaign overlay", a connective tissue between worlds like the Infinite Staircase or Sigil or the river Styx, or any number

Actual Play

Back, if Not Quite in the Saddle

Hi all, I'm back from a wonderful trip to China—Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Changsha—and, unfortunately, down with a bad case of Covid (courtesy of the Tokyo transit system, best guess). So that's why the radio silence of late. However, things are still moving forwards. The

Actual Play

Kickstarter ends in 48 Hours!!!

Wow. We've got just 48 hours to go in the Fury of the Forsaken Kickstarter! Thank you everybody for getting us here. Kickstarters can be stressful, but we're having a blast, and co-author Richard Pett and I are grateful for all the support. It's

Dungeons & Dragons

Sorting the Ingredients with Gnome Stew

Today I am a guest on the Gnome Stew podcast. I sat down with host Jared Rascher to talk all things Thrones & Bones. Jared has played several Norrøngard adventures and has actually read the novels too. This resulted in an informed discussion that encompassed the whole of Thrones &

Dungeons & Dragons

Campaign Builder: Castles & Crowns

I have a pattern of buying a lot more RPG manuals than I will ever read. I like having a big library of my interests, and I do pull them down and refer to specific parts of books as needed for the things that I'm working on. But,

Dungeons & Dragons

More artwork from Fury of the Forsaken

Ksenia Kozhevnikova is an amazing artist whose work features heavily in Fury of the Forsaken, the book length Thrones & Bones adventure on Kickstarter now. Today I want to share more of her fabulous art with you all. We'll look at another bird's eye view of

Dungeons & Dragons

Two New Add-Ons

Two new add-ons just went up for the Fury of the Forsaken Kickstarter. One is the hardcover version of the Player's Guide to Norrøngard, giving you everything you need to create a Tales of the Valiant-style character for the land of the ice and snow! Tales of the

Dungeons & Dragons

The Bense Trilogy

The Fury of the Forsaken Kickstarter is now 95% funded. But although this Kickstarter is titled "Fury of the Forsaken", it's really a two-book project. The second book, The Bense Trilogy, is just as important and just as exciting.  So what is The Bense Trilogy? What

Kickstarter

Chatting with Designer Richard Pett

I have a very special interview today. This past weekend, I sat down to chat with my Fury of the Forsaken co-designer Richard Pett. We talked about his career in tabletop roleplaying games, from getting his start with Dungeon magazine, to working for Paizo on projects like the celebrated We

Dungeons & Dragons

A Look Inside the Art of Frekrheim with Ksenia Kozhevnikova

Ksenia takes us through the process of creating one of these pieces, a scene depicting the Temple of Wodagr, which happens to be whale-shaped.

ScripTips

Boldly Going: Continuing Conversations Part 2

In this second part of our conversation, I talked more comprehensively about my novel plotting theories than I ever have in one place before.

Chatting with Joe Bilton of Heroic Maps

So join us as Joe and I chat about how they got their start making battlemaps, how the company has grown, what goes into making maps, and Joe's own history with the tabletop roleplaying and wargaming communities.

Dungeons & Dragons

The Kickstarter is Live!!

Fury of the Forsaken just went live on Kickstarter.

Star Trek

Boldly Going: Continuing Conversations about Star Trek and Story Structure

Today, I am a guest on Continuing Conversations, the official podcast of the Star Trek Adventures roleplaying game.

Tales of the Valiant

One Week to Unleash the Fury

Fury of the Forsaken is finally coming to Kickstarter. We are launching Tuesday, April 29th at 8am PST / 11 am EST.

Actual Play

Watch Now: Fury of the Forsaken 3

"a really atmospheric, occasionally frightening encounter with some real danger"

Actual Play

Tonight: Fury of the Forsaken Part 3

An undead army rose from the waters, promising to return and slay the town in three days.