Jambo's GM Journal
Game Session Prep, D&D, Daggerheart and other TTRPGs
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A week late with this write-up (life gets busy!), but here’s the recap of our fourth Tales of the Valiant session. This one was packed: treacherous hills, goblin grudges, a botched ransom exchange, and the arrival of a brand-new ally. Stirges in the Hills Climbing the wet, slippery hills toward the ransom site, the party…
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Back to my Tales of the Valiant campaign! We were one player short this week — but that’s why I deliberately built a slightly larger pool of players for Tales of the Valiant. It keeps the game moving even when someone can’t make it. And this session really delivered, with dream visions, shady dealings, wilderness…
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Last night I ran my very first session of Daggerheart, and wow! I’ll be honest, I was extra nervous. New game system, new players, and to make it more stressful, two of my original sign-ups dropped out on the day. That left us with three strangers from the internet, gathered to dive into a strange…
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Tomorrow night I’m running my very first game of Daggerheart. I’ve played a couple of sessions before, but this will be my first time as the GM — and it’s also my players’ first time with the system. We’ll all be learning together, which feels like a fun way to dive in. To keep things…
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We’ve reached the end of Session 2 in our Tales of the Valiant campaign, and the Old Margreve is already proving itself to be as dangerous as it is mysterious. I’ve lifted and shifted the Margreve from its original Midgard setting into my own homebrew world — the forest’s folklore and dangers remain, but the…
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For the last four years, my GM screen has been a couple of monitors. My dice have clattered in virtual tabletops – I’ve tried Roll 20, Above VTT, Shard VTT, Foundry and I messed about a bit with Fantasy Grounds. But earlier this summer, for the first time since I started running games, I heard…
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