Author Archives: Tolrendordm

Tales of the Valiant: An Introduction

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Tolrendordm

As promised here, I am going to be delving deep into Tales of the Valiant over the coming months and look forward to sharing my excitement for this new entry into the Dungeons & Dragons genre. Let’s get started! An … Continue reading →

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Rolling the Digital Dice…

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Tolrendordm

When this blog was last active, prior to 2020, COVID-19 had not yet turned the world upside down. Back then, the Virtual Tabletop (VTT) industry was a growing niche, a useful tool for the tech-savvy TTRPG community, but hardly a … Continue reading →

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What Is Tales of the Valiant and Why It Matters

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Tolrendordm

For those of us who have long been captivated by the world of tabletop role-playing games, the launch of Tales of the Valiant (TotV) by Kobold Press was a seminal moment. Born out of the turbulence caused by the Open … Continue reading →

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A New Chapter for Tolrendor DM’s Blog

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Tolrendordm

Greetings, fellow adventurers and world-builders! It’s been a while—over three years, in fact—since the last post here on Tolrendor DM’s Blog. Life, as it so often does, swept me away on its own adventures, and the blog went on hiatus. … Continue reading →

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A new journey …

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Tolrendordm

As you can clearly see, this blog has not had much attention over the past few years, after a great run! It hasn’t been forgotten, but the focus has been elsewhere. With my children busy with exams and growing up … Continue reading →

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Heroic Maps – a Shout Out!

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Tolrendordm

I love mapping! There’s nothing better than creating a fun and interesting battle-map… Mapping is hard … it takes a lot of time and effort to produce even one battle-map, let alone enough maps for a whole adventure. Which is … Continue reading →

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Icon Rolls

Posted on September 9, 2017 by Tolrendordm

I am definitely not what you would call an ‘off-the-cuff’ DM! The happiest DMing I do is when I’ve prepared well, both in terms of the session that I think I’m going to run, and for those parts of the session that … Continue reading →

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Faint Stirrings…

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Tolrendordm

It’s been a long time … dust has settled … As is obvious, it’s 18 months since the last post on this blog. Pretty much dead then? The honest answer is that at times I pretty much thought so. Due … Continue reading →

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The Amber Pendant

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Tolrendordm

A new fantasy artist on the block … I’ve posted before about the 4E solo campaign I’m running occasionally (very occasionally as it happens…. doesn’t life just get in the way!!) for my son, called the Amber Pendant. His character … Continue reading →

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Map of the Month: CC3+ and Mike Schley Overland

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Tolrendordm

It seems an age since I really got my teeth stuck into a proper map e.g. one which wasn’t just a quick CC3 hack to print out a scale battle-map. For my ‘Amber Pendant‘ solo campaign with my son, I needed … Continue reading →

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