Welcome on Streets & Spores!

The Goal: This humble blog is kind of my notebook for my tabletop roleplaying game activities. I write down my ideas, I write play reports of the sessions I have with my players, my prep, sources of inspiration, etc.

The Name: I first named the blog Streets in Turmoil because at that moment I had that idea that I was obsessing about and that was to create a fantasy beat’ em up campaign setting. Kind of D&D but with hooligans and street fighting. I wrote a few things (mostly erased by now) but I’ve lost interest in the project along the way.

After that I had a similar idea but this time it would have been a campaign within Jeff VanderMeer’s novels and its Ambergris city, along with fungus-related « Gray Caps » humanoids. And thus the actual name of the blog: Streets & Spores.

But that also never came to materialize, I’m fickle that way…

The Content: What DID come to happen is a Dungeon & Dragons (5E) campaign that I call alternately Ruins of Chult or Jungle D&D that lasted for quite a bit. But I must say, like many people, I progresively got more and more annoyed by the super-heroic style of 5E and started to look for alternatives. One of them was a Castle Xyntillan/haunted castle campaign (OSR) that opened my eyes to a completely different style of gaming. And now I’m in a phase where I’m experimenting with different systems and styles.

You can read it all if this is the kind of things you like.

The Author: As for myself…

I have a degree in history and political science. I work at a shipping office in a university, an easy and boring job that has the big advantage of leaving me a lot of free time. So I blog at work. Don’t tell my boss.

I am now in my forties, I’ve been a dungeon master or game master since I was 14 and rpgs are still an important hobby of mine, if no longer the first among them. I can’t play several times a week like when I was a teenager and most of my gaming friends have become, huh, unreliable players at best, life is sad and full of pain… Okay it’s not that bad at all because now I have my kids, my two sons Edmond and Isaac and then there’s also my sister Marjorie, her son Olivier, my brother Jason and sometimes one good (very motivated) friend and his son.

I am Québécois, I speak French and live in Québec City, Canada.

I like gardening, martial arts, history, small game hunting, mushroom foraging and as you see, rpgs.

I am practically non-existent on the internet aside from this modest endeavor. If you want to communicate with me, this site is pretty much the only place. I do like to have comments!

David Lector