AAJ Interview Series 2: Hags

The second interview in the series is with Hags, who blogs at hags.bearblog.dev and has a substantial catalog on itch. She contributed The Nine Valley Kingdoms to Antarctica, a deliciously imaginative & rich set of hexes that take a "travelogue" angle inspired (among many other things) by books like Invisible Cities and the journeys of Marco Polo. A map of the Nine Valley Kingdoms, by Hags Idraluna: First question: What is your ttrpg background? How and when did you get started, and what games are you playing today? Hags: I first played TTRPGs when in 2015 or so but they'd always occupied my imagination since I read about them in the Dangerous Book For Girls. 5e was my lens for understanding RPGs at that point. While at university in 2018 I encountered the LotFP adventures God That Crawls and Death Frost Doom, the latter especially becoming a staple of the games that I ran for beginners at my RPG Club (I later learnt of the module's unfortunate origin yet it remains a key touchstone…