Silver Gems & Perils

The 15th Century & Delaying Lazy Projects When It comes to wargaming I try to go on the web and learn which system works best that is both engaging yet simple at the same time, whether or not It's historical wargaming. I played a few times with a friend of mine using By This Axe and it was very simple and fun. While by "default" it is ideal for historical war games. There are appendixes like running theater of the mind or playing fantasy battles with 1:5 or 1:20 scales options available.     Front Cover of By This Axe   I mostly know Fantasy because I've watched Lord of The Rings, Conan, Salomon Kane, Red Sonja and other media and literature to feel more at home playing. As for Historical well that is where most of that falls flat on my face. So I went ahead and found another system that focuses more on smaller battles and mostly fantasy. This game was called Songs Of Blade And Heroes .  But I played it a few times and didn't enjoy it because it was "to...

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 ...