Very excited to say the FoF crew over at manapotstudios.com is making our most popular series from Flights of Fandom, Escape from Arkham, long form as Streets of Gotham!
I’m totally normal about this. We’re doing a soft reboot mechanically and narrative as we take characters that were intended to be one offs into a long term every other Monday livestream. Tonight is the third episode and it has been absolutely phenomenal.
It was a ton of fun recording this episode of Party of One with its host and creator, Jeff Stormer. I didn’t have this website operational at the time, but definitely check out the tale of my goofy lil intern
Dark Visions continues to go well, we aired episode 11 recently.
Switching to vdo.ninja was a large improvement, forced by zoom’s updated service conditions.
I’ll be starting pre production for a new streaming series soon, and alpha testing on Spirits Rising is going well, I hope to do a live beta test before the end of 2023.
This site hasn’t been updated frequently, and I’m hoping to change that.
For now, Hopper out.
We’ll be live tonight, 9/29/2022 at 830 pm ET with another session of Dark Visions over on our twitch channel. Come hang out as we see what dastardly activities the crew gets up to as they approach a band of Frost Giants……
We heard you liked art, and the amazing Ren Constable has drawn this group portrait for us of the Dark Visions crew! Check out more of their work on instagram
If anybody happens to stumble on this here page, this is what we’ve been up to!
Streaming an actual play of Gloomhaven
Hopper, Ned Donovan, Zach, and Bill have been playing through the Digital port of the phenomenal game Gloomhaven, making character driven choices, goofing off and generally playing around with OBS and having a good time with friends. If you’d like to catch up all of our sessions are up on youtube, and we stream live to the Legend Tree twitch channel. Swing through and give us a follow!
Guest appearance on Party of One, playing Fluxfall Horizon
Hopper appeared as a guest on the critically acclaimed TTRPG podcast Party of One with Jeff Stormer playing Fluxfall Horizon, a ttrpg about parallel earths, time and space shenanigans, and traveling to strange yet familiar worlds.
it was a privlege to be play one on one with such skilled GM as Jeff stormer.
Spotify link
Prepping for our first streamed game on the twitch channel!
We’re hard at work, getting the Art(!), assets, tech and player schedules lined up to promote a home game from the Kyneslund Campaign to a streamed show, as a way to help Hopper learn how to produce a stream on their own.
We’re very excited to announce more information soon, so stay tuned.
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome. This week: Tater Grailos: the human sorcerer who doesn’t believe in magic.
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome.
Disclaimer: I have played this one in a one shot. Ask me how it went!
Tater Grailos is the answer to “What is the high fantasy equivalent of a flat earther?” But like, polite about it.
He doesn’t believe in magic. Even when he is obviously doing magic. Firebolt? Nah, that stone I threw sparked off the goblin’s armor and ignited marsh gas. Mage armor? Please, my dude, I’m just really sweaty and my tunic is kind of stiff.
Always an answer, always dumb. Always upbeat and wholesome.
Feature image credit: A “flat-Earth” map drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Feel free to use this character to your games. If you include them in an adventure, throw a shoutout to the Legend Tree, and if you play or use them in your game we would be delighted if you left a comment letting us know how it went!
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome. This week: Ser Gilbert Gornsatch III: the skeleton paladin hiding in armor.
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome.
Ser Gilbert was a mediocre to poor Knight with middling martial skills. But he was endlessly¹ enthusiastic.
When he was killed by a necromancer he was woefully unprepared to combat, the necromancer raised him from the dead and assigned him to opening and closing the privy door. Over the years, the compulsion faded and when the Necromancer was killed by competent adventurers, See Gilbert took the opportunity to skedaddle…
And seek…. ADVENTURE!
Gilbert’s a bit unhinged, and gets weird about doors, but is otherwise determined to become a legend, boney countenance non-withstanding.
¹ annoyingly
Feel free to use this character to your games. If you include them in an adventure, throw a shoutout to the Legend Tree, and if you play or use them in your game we would be delighted if you left a comment letting us know how it went!
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome. This week: Malbus Lightroot, the awakened shrub barbarian.
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome.
Malbus was naturally awakened by proximity to a magic pool, and has always wondered where his family is from, as he is the only tree of his kind on the area.
He learned to walk, and as such has never grown any bigger. He gets quite upset about that, if it’s pointed out, and is prone to flying into a rage.
Malbus is always looking for his family, but it seems sometimes the berserker apple does fall pretty far from the tree…
(He doesn’t know this, but his daddy is totes a fantasy Johnny Appleseed.)
Feel free to use this character to your games. If you include them in an adventure, throw a shoutout to the Legend Tree, and if you play or use them in your game we would be delighted if you left a comment letting us know how it went!
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome. This week: Mister Bitey, the Awakened Cat Sorcerer.
#TrashCharacterTuesdays is an ongoing series of bad character ideas from the depths of my brain. You’re welcome.
A little girl finds an ancient relic in the woods and wishes for her best friend, her cat Mister Bitey, to be able to talk and live forever…
That was 300 years ago. Mister Bitey misses her human, and she always goes out of her way to help and delight children, in her honor. But she hates everyone else.
Mister Bitey likes to go on adventures, but she insists on being carried. She lives up to her name, and enjoys biting people as part of her touch magic spells.
Feel free to use this character to your games. If you include them in an adventure, throw a shoutout to the Legend Tree, and if you play or use them in your game we would be delighted if you left a comment letting us know how it went!
Welcome to the repository of Hopper’s brain. It will be filled with weird, hopefully wonderful things. Their brain runs at about 1,000 miles an hour, and we figured we’d share all that with you.
Here are some of their current projects:
// DMing for kids and adults in 5 different ongoing campaigns, including a Westmarches style game. Or is it 6 campaigns? Or 7? Who can keep track these days…
// Castmember in the biweekly Invisible Sun live-stream A Hole in the World on ManaPotStudios.com
// Hopper is also a core cast member of the Flights of Fandom show, live, every Tuesday at 8pm Eastern. The crew of FoF does “flights” or short arcs, exploring different fandoms using a variety of tabletop systems. Watch on Twitch, via manapotstudios.com
In addition to that, they sometimes build terrain, sometimes paint miniatures, and they’re always working on building out their own homebrew world, Jushara (which has a constantly expanding World Anvil).
Fruit of the Legend Tree 