Gen Con Game Sign Up is Live!

Gen Con Game Sign Up is Live!

Jul 16

If you’re interested in gaming with the Illuminerdy at Gen Con this year, now’s your chance! Sign ups for three different games featuring The Universe and d20Blonde are now live!  Just click the links below to get to a specific page for the game that interests you. First come, first serve (though we may ask you to choose a single game if you manage to get signed up for 2 or...

Gen Con with the Illuminerdy

Gen Con with the Illuminerdy

Jul 13

Gen Con is coming, and a fair portion of the Illuminerdy are going to be there. Do you want to meet (most of) us? Maybe play some games? You may just have that chance. They say it’s the “best four days in gaming.” And you know what? They might be right. But you’ll always wonder what might have been unless you take some time to meet us. #RPGChat Meetup This year,...

Setting Quickstart: Mercenary Life

Setting Quickstart: Mercenary Life

Jun 21

Arfin Kegsplitter was having a bad day. At least, he was pretty sure it was day. He hadn’t yet determined if it was worth the effort to open his eyes and confirm his suspicions. There were splinters in his nose, again. Not from a fight, or even from a fall. He’d passed out at a table, again. He had to stop. He sighed. He couldn’t stop. Wouldn’t stop. Better to wake up like this than to...

Setting Quickstart: The Paladin’s Tale

Setting Quickstart: The Paladin’s Tale

May 29

It had been a long, hard, unpleasant ride across the plains of Maelwysrin, made longer by the fact that she hadn’t been allowed to return to the barracks before starting west. She hadn’t been forced to draw her sword to fell anything other than brambles, so far. Grand quest indeed. Justice squirmed in the saddle, raising her gauntleted hand to shelter her vision against the setting sun. The...

Setting Quickstart — Terror on the High Seas

Setting Quickstart — Terror on the High Seas

May 22

Jeranna leaned into the salty spray of the sea, feet placed perfectly on the Skyracer’s bowsprit. One long, sinewy arm reached back, holding onto a rope that one of her lieutenants had insisted she take with her out above the vessel’s prow. She smiled, crinkling the midnight skin around her eyes and mouth, feeling simple ecstasy at being able to ride the Placid Sea with such...

Setting Quickstart — The Avalon Mesa

Setting Quickstart — The Avalon Mesa

May 02

Kay throws down her cards, pushing back from the table with a series of decidedly unladylike curses, the sudden noise like a gunshot in the otherwise uneasily silent saloon. For a brief, tense moment, it seems certain that one of the hired guns working for Vortiger’s outfit is going to pull iron — maybe even old “King” Cole Vortiger himself — but even in his own...