WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS - A CAMPAIGN INTRO
Below is what I wrote as the intro to the setting of my upcoming Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Before you crucify me for running 5e, it's my second campaign ever as DM, this system is what I learned on, and yes, I did buy the books for The Epic of Dreams , Whitehack , Bastards ., Rogueland , and such - and I'll stop making excuses as well. For all its issues, I like 5e pretty well, and it's what my players like playing too. I assure myself by making sure I do a lot to make it more than just another D&D game, and have pulled a lot to make it more rules-lite and evocative (thanks in no small part to learning from The Epic of Dreams' character imagination and Saga mentality). I believe it was Strider who said "A day may come when I get my friends into the OSR, but it is not this day." In any case, after having a lightbulb moment in a casual Instagram DM chat about Shel Silverstein several months ago, I started plugging away on this incomplete, but full-of-p