Hi. My name is Harold, and I’ll be your Dungeon Master today.
This is how every session of our current campaign, Guardians of Indir, begins. But how did we get there, and who are we?
I discovered RPGs when I was 10, got more heavily into them when I was 12, and have been playing and mostly running games since then (it’s been more than 30 years). But that went out of the window when my kids were born – most parents will tell you how difficult it is to accommodate any schedule that isn’t based on the kids – and for years I hardly played at all.
After nearly a decade, my son was finally old enough to be interested in playing RPGs with me, and I started teaching him games that we could play together. A couple years after that, my daughter joined in, too. Soon I was able to share all my passion for gaming with them.
Well, nearly all…because I love to listen to RPG podcasts, and for the longest time I couldn’t find ANY RPG podcast I could listen to with a family audience. Grandparents or kids, neither were appropriate audiences for all the podcasts I listened to and enjoyed. Why was that? I was frustrated. Eventually I found one that was family-friendly, and shortly after that, some friends started a side campaign with their kids on their podcast. Suddenly the kids and I could listen to other people playing RPGs, too! I was very excited to share this aspect of RPG life with them.
But what did my kids say as soon as they listened to an RPG podcast? Naturally, they said “Well, we could do that. Why don’t we?”
This site and the associated podcast are the result.