The Moving West Marches: Adventures on the Red Caravan (and How to Run Your Own)
I have a lot of friends who play TTRPGs, and many others who were always curious about trying them. After years of GMing, I realized that what I enjoy the most are open, sandbox-style campaigns. Over time, I gradually let go of railroading and over-preparing, which I found often narrows the path players will take. Eventually, I decided to surrender to the will of the dice gods. At the same time, I had been reading a lot of blog posts about West Marches and it felt like the perfect fit for my gaming style. So I started putting together a West Marches-style campaign using my usual group and expanding it to include several friends who were either new to RPGs or came from different systems. For the system, I chose Forbidden Lands , which is ideal for exploration and resource management. I loved how it uses abstract dice to track supplies—rations, water, arrows, torches, etc.—represented by a die (d12 → d10 → d8 → d6). Each day, players roll the relevant die, and if they rol...