Apparently there’s a carnival in town…
So, Donny began the second edition of an RPG Blog Carnival. The topic this week: Homebrew. I read his original post, and then NiTessine’s post on a campaign world I really, really want to play in some day. And [...]Read on >>
DragonCon 2000 Vendor List with Hyperlinks and Descriptions
DragonCon, as with Origins and Gen Con, failed to provide links to their vendors. Since my previous list for Gen Con was so popular, I decided to put together a list for DragonCon. Sadly, many of the vendor names are so [...]Read on >>
Random News Table for August 31st
Recent news stories and interesting web sites chock full ‘o’ ideas for your roleplaying game. The Flumph Sanctuary: RPG Carnival #2 - THIS IS HOMEBREW! What exactly is homebrew? I have deliberately left the [...]Read on >>
Character du Jour: Rawn Blackraven
“I want his head!” The Bishop’s chubby hand pounded the table with such force that the inkpot at the opposite end upturned spilling it’s dark contents into a pool. The priest-messenger stood s[...]Read on >>
Review: Emerald Empire for Legend of the Five Rings RPG
While most people are already thinking of the new book out from AEG on the Burning Sands, being here in the Philippines means I probably won’t even see the book on local stores until weeks or months from now. Tha[...]Read on >>
Chatty’s Bedtime Campaign: Nico’s Party!
This is the last part of Nico’s Quest, an interactive bedtime story game I started with him my 6 year old son Nicolas in the last week. I also just bought a digital recorder to better capture the story and write it[...]Read on >>
A couple of other design goals…
Today I made my first 4e character, based on Dirk the Daring from the DragonsLair laserdisc game:The thing I noticed about 4e is that while the mechanics were a lot smoother, the arrangement of the information was not he[...]Read on >>
A Guide to Cool Treasure
We've just completed an article on inserting cool treasure into your game, so if you want to easily enrich your sessions with cooler items and easy-grab quest hooks take a trip over to Table Manners to read The Impo[...]Read on >>
Inspiration: Wardens
Having the PCs employed as Jailers or Prison Wardens could be a great setup for interesting adventures. Imagine what sorts of diverse challenges fantasy prisons must deal with: prisoners that can potentially teleport, b[...]Read on >>
RPG Blog Carnival #2: Homebrew
The second RPG Blog Carnival started today, hosted by Donny the DM. The theme is homebrew. I meant to write up something for the first one, but the move took a large bite out of my time and energy and I never got anythin[...]Read on >>
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Homebrewing - that’s this month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic. For me, there are two sides to homebrewing: the flavour side and the mechanical side. I have been making up games and creating house rules for existi[...]Read on >>
5 Reasons Why I Prefer D&D 4E
August 31, 2008 from Jonathan Drain's D20 Source
Filed under: Dungeon Mastering Advice, RPG Hub, fourth edition
Jürgen Hubert at ENWorld tells us why he prefers D&D 4E. This is especially interesting if you’re still sitting on the fence about switching over.
Let me add to that by giving you my top five:
Excellent advic[...] Filed under: Dungeon Mastering Advice, RPG Hub, fourth edition
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Runelords D&D: In Retrospect
The following is an in-character journal recollection as written by Shanika, one of the players in my Rise of the Runelords campaign path. She plays the druid Deanda Kamp, and has logged her memories of the events so far[...]Read on >>
Game classification
Other people have done campaign benchmarking things before. They are probably okay. This one is mine and is still under development. Potentially. So, the idea is to provide some data about a game so that everyone knows w[...]Read on >>
Props for your game: Organic edition
I like to occasionally use props in my games, as you well know, and I’ve hit upon a great place to find props: your local Co-op, or organic foods store. Mrs. Droid came home from the co-op yesterday with a containe[...]Read on >>
Second “Xin-Shalast” Session Summary Posted
In Part II of the Spires of Xin-Shalast, the last installment of the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path, our heroes begin their insurgency campaign within the ruins of fallen Xin-Shalast. Yeti, dragons, and… [...]Read on >>
Sunday Brunch: August 31, 2008
Sunday Brunch is the one post per week where I talk about things other than gaming and geek stuff. Which usually ends up being tied in to gaming and geek stuff anyhow, because everything’s connected. It’s a geek worl[...]Read on >>
degrees of comfort
as you all know jatori and i have recently found some people to play with………..which is all good and happy fun, but where we play is not as all good and happy fun as some of the people are……&[...]Read on >>
Random News Table for August 30th
Terra Primate Playable Demo - Eden Studios' Planet of the Apes-inspired Unisystem game.Free playable demo. Idea mining for Encounter Critical Buccaneer Trading Company - Antique and rare books, maps, coins and arti[...]Read on >>
Summon WebScryer Index at RPG.net
I was surfing for some Risus/Gamma World sites when I stumbled across RPG.net's index of every "Summon WebScryer" column I've ever written for Knights of the Dinner Table. It's broken down by game system/subject area, a[...]Read on >>
Then They Came
D&D has a long and noble history of drawing elements of sci-fi into it’s fantasy gaming. The most well known of them all is Expedition to the Barrier Peaks which pits the adventurers against robots and Things F[...]Read on >>
Another Video Pick
I found this one on Youtube last Christmas and thought it was pretty funny. A nativity scene, gamer style.IM IN UR MANGER KILLING YOUR SAVIORSubscribe[...]Read on >>
Not-So-Great Expectations
And on the subject on life inspiring art, I got this one from two otherwise awesome people getting my gender wrong in the same day. (For those of you who haven’t figured it out from the about page: I’m a gi[...]Read on >>
RPG Carnival #2 - Homebrew
Over at The Flumph Sanctuary the second round of the RPG Carnival has just started. Get your entries in by the last friday of September if you want to be included in this one. I think thats the 26th if you want to get th[...]Read on >>
Why wait to play a Swordmage?
I know at least one gamer who is impatiently waiting for the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide to come out. It's not because he is a huge Forgotten Realms fan. It's so that he can check out the new Swordmage c[...]Read on >>
Maze and Labyrinth Resources for Dungeon Masters
Most gamers have run into a labyrinth at least once in their gaming life. Usually in pursuit (or in flight from) a minotaur. I am not averse to minotaurs, but I think that the labyrinth itself if more interesting than th[...]Read on >>
Phoenix ConGames is No More!
I just got an email from the convention organizers and it looks like the last major gaming convention in Arizona is no more. I cannot tell you how much this sucks. Here is the full text of the email. To our friends [...]Read on >>
Maze Strategies for Adventurers
Yesterday I posted resources for the DM to create mazes. Mazes of such complexity as to vex and confuse players everywhere. I only thought it wise to follow-up with some maze-running strategies to aid players. Just[...]Read on >>
Dresden Files tv show
I’ve been watching these on DVD thanks to Netflix, and I’m really enjoying it. I have not read any of the books, but I love the noir fantasy genre and I’ve enjoyed the delicate way the show balances m[...]Read on >>
Not the Realms anymore
Wizards of the Coast has released the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. There’s a review at RPG.net that is less than glowing. Judging from the material mentioned in that review, I think my opinion would be even wor[...]Read on >>
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