Episode 026: Finding Inspiration
WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners. Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast sponsored by Sword's Edge Publishing All music in podcast by Mindscape Music 1. News & Vie[...]Read on >>
Defining RPG (2nd draft)
(This is a based on an earlier draft entry. I thought it'd be better to repost with edits than to edit the original.)This goal of this post isn't to define RPGs. Rather it's to provide a categorical survey of defining ch[...]Read on >>
TSP: Blood of the Gorgon 2 of 4
The Tome Show Presents: Blood of the Gorgon brings you Wolfgang Baur talking about the Blood of the Gorgon Open Design Project by Nicolas Logue. Wolfgang talks to me about how the project is going and how well it will fi[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 59: 4e Misc.
The last of the series of chats that I had with Chris Engler (of Wapcaplets) about various 4th edition news. Thanks again to Chris for joining us. Everyone else, make sure you email in or hop over to the forums to let me[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 58: Winn Report
Geoffrey D. Winn brings us the last of his reports from D&D Experience. DDXP documents and Videos have been released at this point. You can say thanks to Geoffrey D. Winn for his work at DDXP at the forums. And yo[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 57: Last Dragon
New contributor Gabe Gregoire brings us a review of Last Dragon of the new Discoveries line from Wizards of the Coast as well as a quick interview with the author J.M. McDermott. Check out the Tome’s Amazon Sto[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 56: Gamer Zero/Blue
Geoffrey D. Winn brings us the last of the DDXP interviews, this time with Gamer Zero and Blue of the Gamer Radio Zero show over at WotC. It’s a great listen and thanks again to Geoffrey for doing such a great job [...]Read on >>
Episode 025: Good Modern Gaming
WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners. Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast sponsored by Sword's Edge Publishing All music in podcast by Mindscape Music 1. News &[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 55: 4e Settings
4th Edition chat with Chris Engler of Wapcaplets continues. This time we talked about 4e setting information. Continue the discussion over at the forums. Visit the website and of course hop on to the Amazon store in ord[...]Read on >>
Mechanical Character Advancement
Mechanical character advancement is useful. The longer you plan on playing the same campaign, the more useful mechanical character advancement is to the system. Without it, you will be stuck playing the same game, over[...]Read on >>
Disentangling “system” as it relates to design and play
This is prompted by a current thread at theRPGsite, where I took Levi to task for bringing up "Lumpley Principle"-esque definitions.Anyway, I'm going to make my own set of definitions, not as a bid to impose them on the [...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 54: Greenwood DDXP
Geoffrey D. Winn brings us an interview with Ed Greenwood at D&D Experience. Ed Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms, Castlemourn, and much much more. This episode is also the first episode that has a [...]Read on >>
Second Chtulhu Roleplay session
Today we've had our second CHtulhu (paper) roleplaying session, continuing the history and characters of the first one. We started just where we left, being interrogated by the police for the murder happened at[...]Read on >>
A slightly different account of D&D roots
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=136167Note rmaker's post. I don't know what sources it's based on.[...]Read on >>
Episode 024: Pre-Modern Modern
WARNING: Instances of very strong language may offend some listeners. Accidental Survivors: the Modern Gaming Podcast sponsored by Sword's Edge Publishing All music in podcast by Mindscape Music This episode [...]Read on >>
