Factoids of the Hill Cantons: Unique Gear
Continuing in my series of posts from the Rough Guide to the Hill Cantons, I present today a piece of the unusual items that a visitor might find in a remote stall in the more exotic markets and trade fairs of the Hill C[...]Read on >>
5kepticism and Intrigue
DDXP opened yesterday, and the first reports are coming back in. It’s the first public playtests of 5e, plus seminars and whatnot, with bits and pieces being dribbled out. Unlike with 4e, there seems to be more of an[...]Read on >>
Cthuhu Lives!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21353-zoologger-unique-life-form-is-half-plant-half-animal.html[...]Read on >>
Borderland of Adventure: The Shadowed Keep II
At the end of last session, we left our heroes standing over the bloodied corpses of their bandit enemies. Although victorious, the party were much weakened by their struggle. Kemmo wanted to leave immediately while the[...]Read on >>
Oh, I’m Going to Get Killed Any Minute Now (Part 1)
(Also Titled: The Ongoing Diary of Thppgrg, Goblin Minion) Dear Diary, Just got a new gig as a low-level dungeon guard for Dark Lord Torkelheim, which is all but guaranteed to end in tragedy. This will be my account of h[...]Read on >>
On Interesting Treasure: Sliver Ring of Amon
The double crossed ring of Amon, deity of purity are often found. The rings are pure silver, and would be worth about 10 gold if not for their special qualities.The first is as the bearer becomes more physically unclean [...]Read on >>
[Solo GPC] Loholt, Squire of the White Horse
We're a couple sessions into the new year of Pendragon gaming with Des's new character, Loholt. As mentioned before, with Meleri's premature retirement we decided to roll with the changes and bring in Arthur's illegitima[...]Read on >>
They have discovered Ngorondoro The Goblin Cave
Apparently it lies in Vietnam and is large enough to put a 747 into with plenty of space to book. Filled with scores of caves and crawls this mammoth complex is not yet wholly explored. Nation Geographic does it again! [...]Read on >>
Simple, Universal D&D
One of the state design goals of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons is to allow for a variety of play styles within a single group. If people want 3e-style Skills and Feats, they can have them; if they want to go Old Sc[...]Read on >>
The Art of the Small—Fluff here! Get your hot crunchy fluff here!
…this info…invit[es] the DM to seed his adventures with references, clues, and mysteries pertaining to the party […], or for players at the table to press for the meanings and leanings behind such... [[ This is a [...]Read on >>
Daughter of Delphi
:Requirements: Human, Female, CHA 9+, CON 9+:Primes: WIS:Max Level: 12:Hit Die: d6 (+1 after level 9):Combat: Good To Hit Progression, Med Armor, Any Shield:Saves: as Cleric"Your own reason is the on[...]Read on >>
Wallee
This guy keeps on working. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No breaks. Work Work Work. He's old school. Its the Wallee of the real world. The Mars Rover, Opportunity by name, begins its ninth year of exploration on Mars. O[...]Read on >>
What Do Skills Do, Again?
Ever since D&D added non-weapon proficiencies to AD&D, skills have been a staple of pretty much every RPG out there. From 3rd Edition's somewhat bloated list of skills to FATE's highly customizable ski[...]Read on >>
Q&A From BA ASAP!
I invoke the power of initials to bring my own brand of RPG inquiry to the blogsphere in hopes of learning more about my fellow gamer!(Translates as: I was inspired by Zak's questionaire thingie so I made my own question[...]Read on >>
today’s experiment
I want to talk a little about today's game outside of the usual "here's what the drunken henchman tells you" context. As you may have heard one of the claims being made about the new edition of D&D is that it w[...]Read on >>
Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: Light Sources
One of the issues that has plagued man and and adventurer alike is the issue of: light. Light or a lack thereof dictates what the diurnal human can accomplish. Because of the biological composition of our eyes, the night[...]Read on >>
Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Marvel Heroes Events
Number of Views :106 I’m really, really getting excited for this thing to come out on February 28th. On the 28th, you can pick up the core book, and in the coming months there are a host of other books coming. Mar[...]Read on >>
Its not often a movie . . .
. . . . grabs my attention, as Hollywood has decided to leave the realm of heroic adventure and enter the worlds of pseudo-intellectual clap trap, but watching the trailer for The Grey made the hair on my neck stand up. [...]Read on >>
It’s All About Who You Know
In Dungeons & Dragons, as in real life, there are two things that help people succeed where others fail: what you’ve done and who you know. In D&D we already make a big deal about “what you’ve done” and[...]Read on >>
Random Article Table: Giants, Authors, Documentaries, and lots of D&D
Yes folks, it's that time again when I try to play catch-up with the items that have been sitting in my inbox for way too long. Let's jump right in, shall we? Please roll 1d8+1d12 and consult the following table for your[...]Read on >>
Exodus, by Eric Staggs
1. They stood on the ancient ramparts together, watching the refugees stream into the city. The sunset behind them, the long shadows of the delicate spires of the...Visit the original post, Exodus, by Eric [...]Read on >>
Game of the Month: Dungeon World
For December’s game-of-the-month, I played in a session of Dungeon World run by Brent Newhall. The game started as a hack of Apocalypse World inspired by old school dungeon delving... Read more »[...]Read on >>
Willow & Tara: World of Darkness (old)
I have been going over a ton of my old books and looking at what I want to keep, what I want to give to my kids and what I want to get rid of. I cam across some old World of Darkness stuff the other day and I am no[...]Read on >>
playing D&D with Mike Mornard: it’s all about context
I played another game of D&D with Gygax and Arneson player Mike Mornard, who, always quotable, said, "Understanding history is all about context. When Karl Marx was writing his first essays, Germany was a feudal sta[...]Read on >>
Caves of Myrddin update
So the Dragon of Dundagel seems to be in a bit of a mood today. He's been seen flying around the countryside, plucking up peasants and dropping them from great heights, panicing herds and flocks, and he even set fi[...]Read on >>
Discussion: Do You Like The Discussions?
First off, sorry about the late post today. Been a bit under the weather (not an excuse) and work had me all over the place last night (also not an excuse) so it just kinda slipped from my mind.That said, turn out at dis[...]Read on >>
The Five Foot Square
Let’s take a minute and think about the good old 5 foot square. Since 3E came out we have used them to precisely calculate our movements in combat, used them to figure out how many goblins we hit with a fire ball or pe[...]Read on >>
Cthulhu Britanica: Shadows Over Scotland
Shadows Over Scotland is a hard back, black and white book, part of Cubicle 7’s Cthulhu Britannica series. It is the product of quite a lot of writing by Stuart Boon, and believe me when I tell you there is a lot of ma[...]Read on >>
Fantasy Racial Tensions
Some of you may have seen my tweets regarding the importance of race-based mechanics in D&D, and, if we had to have them what form they should take. My thoughts came as a result of a D&D Next blog post that Monte[...]Read on >>
5E Friday
1) So the 5E playtest seems to have gone out to several people last week from various blog posts made. Of particular interest to me is that thus far it looks like it has predominantly been going to "old-school"[...]Read on >>
Wrathofzombie’s Stab at the Monster Manuals- B
Back to Index Barghest [Pathfinder, Castles & Crusades, Monster Manual] All three books have a slightly different version of what the Barghest is and none of them wholly appeal to me. Reading wikipedia for anoth[...]Read on >>
Raging Swan Press releases Cultists of Havra Zhoul
This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of Cultists of Havra Zhoul a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Pierre van Rooden that presents a semi-secret cult seemingly dedicated [...]Read on >>
The Grinding, part 3
Professor Hagberg stood by the shore and watched the world in front of him turn to dust. Trees, plants, rocks and even animals dissolved into a black, coarse powder as an invisible hand combed the horizon. Not even the w[...]Read on >>
They don’t sparkle, period!
I know I am late to the party, the Vampire the Masquerade 20th anniversary celebration was last year. But I did not catch the anniversary bug until this year. My relation with Vampire is a complicated one. I was in colle[...]Read on >>
News from Around the Net: 27-JAN-12
January 27, 2012 from Game Knight Reviews
Filed under: dungeons & dragons, Game Design, GM, Inspiration, Interviews, news, pathfinder, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub, Tools
Hope everyone has had a good week! Mine has been interesting… We’ve been dealing with getting some water damage assessed and fixed in our house after a small overflow in an upstairs bathroom resulted in a fam[...] Filed under: dungeons & dragons, Game Design, GM, Inspiration, Interviews, news, pathfinder, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub, Tools
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Player Maps
Player maps tend to only resemble the original DM's map vaguely, unless the PCs spend an awful lot of time mapping, rather than exploring. They also tend to include way more notes, as they don't tend to make a key for th[...]Read on >>
Ever recycled a popular character for your game?
fashion princesses P1by *viria13 Today I came across the image on the right and I remembered an old habit I had some time ago while mastering. i used to insert MY VERSION of popular characters in a totally unexpec[...]Read on >>
[Pathfinder] The monk and the combat scabbard
Several of this year’s top RPG Superstar 2012 wondrous items included several that addressed niche and/or relatively new rules. Amongst the top 32, we have items that address firearms, caravans, haunts and spellbli[...]Read on >>
DDXP 2012 Report: The First Glimpses at the New Edition of Dungeons & Dragons
E's at DDXP and reporting the news on the newest edition of Dungeons & Dragons. And she got to be in a playtest group with Monte Cook DMing![...]Read on >>
kirbsday: the paranoid pill!
It’s still Thursday somewhere, right? Mister Miracle #3 is a bit like last time: an eerie challenger from Apokolips dares Scott Free to face an inescapable trap. Doctor Bedlam isn’t as frightfully archetypa[...]Read on >>
Chronicles of Azure: An overview of the future
This is a continuation of my prior post idea about a post apocalyptic like mythos Chronicles of Amber mash up. Here I want to further define the idea further from the few bullet points I had previously made. I will also [...]Read on >>
A Neat Character Portrait Generator
Or at least that’s what I intend to use it for: Doll Divine [...]Read on >>
John Barleycorn’s Glen
John Barleycorn’s Glen, a narrow vale between low moors, famed for its beers and whiskeys. In recent days, the spirits of this small land have begun to become strange and dark…[...]Read on >>
TheSheDM Reviews: Terraclips
Last weekend our Friday night DM surprised us with a fantastic pair of maps made from Terraclips and D&D tiles for our campaign finale. I had never heard or seen these strange tile-and-clip things, so I asked him ab[...]Read on >>
Next D&D a couple of Pics I found
Oh, interesting choice of adventure. I wonder if there is a nearby keep on them borderlands? Next up… My my my, a warlord in the core set opens up an interesting set of parameters. And such FLAVORFUL description of[...]Read on >>
Arkham Horror begats Call of Cthulhu
Being down three players last night (Dan Dan the Power Game Man is overseas for awhile, Little Ben has to take a month or two off suddenly, and Big Ben had a cold), we decided to finally play Paul’s copy of Arkham Horr[...]Read on >>
Do you want to hear the Writer/Desiger’s voice?
That’s the question I’m wrestling with now. Well, wrestling is too strong a word… but I’ve noticed a couple of specific trends and I wonder if they mean anything, if they reflect the game in any w[...]Read on >>
The Deep Mountains (Lightly Forested)
Here is a sample seed chart I use in games, I am compiling a list of those I use (slowly).To use, roll a d8, d6 and d4. Know the total result, and the result of each die. Unless specifically told to roll a di[...]Read on >>
A Flurry of 5E Updates
For them's as is interested, do check in on the EnWorld 5E information page (linked over on the right column of this blog as well). Now that the D&D Experience Con has gotten underway, they seem to be doing live upda[...]Read on >>
DriveThru Reviews
These are more like "Drive By" reviews since I am posting rather fast today. Also a mixed bag of stuff.Power Pics Heroes 1 -Female SpeedsterGreat concept really. Provide the art and a paper mini for the g[...]Read on >>
