So I finally decided to switch my blog (at least partly) to the english language, mainly due to the fact that most of the stuff I’m interested in is originally written in english anyways. Probably makes it a bit harder as it isn’t my native tongue, on the other hand it may well help me to focus on topics I wanna talk about as I have to concentrate just that bit more. But we’ll see how this will work out.

I’m Bjoern, 42 years old, three kids, full-time nurse and an avid roleplayer since I got introduced into this hobby 32 years ago. My first contact with this stuff was the computer game gem Bard’s Tale, soon followed by the first edition of Das Schwarze Auge, the most popular Pen&Paper here in Germany. Next was AD&D, then D&D 3rd ed., which in the Pathfinder variant has become my system to go for when I want to run things. For a short time I was part of the german PFRPG translation team but have gone back to full hobbyist status since then.

At the moment, I’m trying my hands at adventure creation and take part in GM Johnn Fours‘ Adventure Building Workshop. Now it’s not that I haven’t created my own stuff before but that was more on a when-needed basis and mostly was transported directly from my head to the game table. What I wanna find out now is if I’m able to create adventures (and as an extension, my own setting) in a more structured and probably even bring it in a publishable form.

But that’s a long way to go so let’s start with the first step. For those of you who don’t know him, John Four is the man behind the Roleplaying Tips blog, a dragon’s hoard full of great and mostly system-independent GM advice (which you can also subscribe to to get it via email). I really appreciate what John does there so when he announced his plan to produce an adventure building workshop I hadn’t to think twice about taking part in it. At the moment I’m working slowly throught the workshop videos and am still in the planning phase for what will hopefully become an ongoing (and unending^^) endeavor.

One of the things John suggested is a central database to store all the materials and ideas you may or may not need for your project. He’s using Evernote for the workshop and while I appreciate the power of the software and started to use it myself, I’m kinda hesitant to use it as storage for long-winded texts instead of short and concise notes. So that’s where this blog will come in handy, because blog and long-winded texts? Sounds like a perfect fit. I plan to use it as a journal during my voyage to my first written adventure but also to show off some of the materials I want to talk about.

Apart from that, I’ll continue to review stuff I like, to report my findings in the old Dragon and Dungeon Magazines, thoughts about the new 5th edition of DSA (not sure if this part will be in english cause, as I understand, Das Schwarze Auge never gained much traction outside of Germany so it may be of no interest to english speaking readers) and of D&D (big maybe, cause the last edition war made me lose much of my interest into D&D, especially as I don’t like their policy regarding setting-specific publications; on the other hand, I can’t keep mine from their adventures, so we’ll see). Add (another big maybe) the occasional music and/or comic review and (even BIGGER maybe) my political view on certain developments, and this is what this blog will be about. That’s why he is called „Wormy’s Worlds“ after all. Because I live in more than one.