Welcome To Silver Gems & Perils!

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What's it all about?

Silver Gems & Perils is a new blog that I will be posting and have a clearer goal. I've been playing Old-School D&D games like Basic Fantasy, Swords & Six-Siders and a little bit of White-box Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game. 

Now I play Pits & Perils which is a old-school game of medieval fantasy and very simple. Most of my gaming as been solely focused on Solo play. I've been doing since 2020 and throughout the pandemic. I met some wonderful people & friends that introduced me to the OSR and started that journey of what I enjoyed most. man time flies by as I look back. 

In-between the year 2023 & 2024, Pits & Perils has been my go-to for creating solo campaigns and hopefully getting a group game together that want to play this game. That is pretty much my goal in this hobby: play the system whole and reach higher levels in a campaign.

I've always wanted to get further than the low-level play style of dungeon crawling and push myself from what I'm too familiar with. I love dungeon crawling, but that can be repetitive and boring if not maintained well. So I hope to play through Pits & Perils to it's fullest and get to enjoy the RPG experience as it could be. Stay Tuned for more posts soon!

   

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