Meeting the Game
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Who is the favourite villain you’ve ever run or crossed swords with?
I'm thrilled (again) to announce that the Geek Emporium chose my Unliving Caretaker (or rather, the backstory I wrote about the first Unliving Caretaker) as the best villain for their Villainous Contest. Thanks, Tom[...]Read on >>
Update and New Review and Update
Happy Halloween, everyone! Gamer Bling wishes you plenty of candy and a blissful haze in which you can forget all about the upcoming election and all the hysteria that’s spewing around our nation’s media. And[...]Read on >>
Friday Funny: Wubba Wubba
The man behind the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden is quite a funnyman. Much more so than his famous character’s grim tales might lead you to believe. As evidence, we offer this audio bit called the “Wubba Wub[...]Read on >>
Traveller – hunting without a licence
After a month's hiatus due to illness, the TNC (minus The Chief) assembled at chez Ratty to play the fourth session of our fledgling Traveller campaign. The first day of hunting was a marginal success, insofar as it yiel[...]Read on >>
Michael Goldfarb PWN3D
Here we go D&D fans. I know you’ve all been waiting to see this guy get completely nailed to the wall. The wait is over… “I think we all know who we’re talking about here.“ Oh, shut you[...]Read on >>
Mining Computer RPGs for Inspiration
When inspiration runs dry, computer RPGs are a great source of content for a "real" RPG. I really never thought of this until I was wallowing in the frustration of Fallout 3 crashes and remembered one of my players comm[...]Read on >>
And The Winner Is…
Things have been pretty rough here at The Geek Emporium, but I’m a man of my word. I said I would reveal the winner of The Villianous Contest and that I will do! Again, the winner receives a $50 gift card from [...]Read on >>
The Benny Economy in Savage Worlds
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Perfect Characters Vs. Game Balance
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Mapping Tutorial #2 (Setting up your hexes)
Welcome the second in a series of tutorials on how to use a vector drawing program to do maps. The program we are using is a href="http://www.inkscape.org/"Inkscape /awhich is freely available.br /br /First bring up the [...]Read on >>
A Plug For the Children…
I’ve been following this since I first heard about it a few weeks ago. Kids, Castles & Caves is the latest effort from Brave Halfling Publishing, a game specifically geared towards youngsters who wish to play a[...]Read on >>
40 Waypoints #11: Still Monkey after All These Years
You might already know I sort of move around a lot in my online gaming and podcasting journeys. I've been on different podcasts, been involved with different projects, and expressed a variety of different opinions over t[...]Read on >>
40 Waypoints #11: Still Monkey after All These Years
You might already know I sort of move around a lot in my online gaming and podcasting journeys. I've been on different podcasts, been involved with different projects, and expressed a variety of different opinions over t[...]Read on >>
Dynamic Dungeons and Spellcasting
I am in the middle of thinking about crafting a megadungeon for OD&D, and the idea of a more dynamic place came to mind. I'm trying to walk a line between overly boring and confining realism and the completely gonzo[...]Read on >>
Happy Cthulhuween!!
In celebration of Halloween, I present you with a Neil Gaiman classic, I, Cthulhu. Enjoy, oneheads. [...]Read on >>
Earn It to Learn It: Advancing GURPS skills by tests
Article by Ben Finney Read more... This article introduces Earn It to Learn It, a simple system to link GURPS skill and technique advancement more directly with meeting challenges in play. Inspired by the skill advancem[...]Read on >>
Carcosa Revised. Again.
The fires raging over Geoffrey McKinney's Carcosa have mostly died out, aside from a few pyros still stoking flames here and there. I haven't yet gotten a copy myself, so I won't comment on its content aside from saying[...]Read on >>
Traveller Character Sheets
Having a few projects on my plate right now has kept me from daily posts here; however, today I have a little something for the Classic Traveller crowd ...JM.[...]Read on >>
Keeping Stuff Random
These days, I’m rediscovering the magic of the random encounter table. This old-fashioned game tool is nothing if not time-tested and (mostly) campaign-approved by several decades’ worth of gamers.br /br /But the asp[...]Read on >>
Red Brick Interview
After the Spiel '08 in Essen (Germany) is over, I was waiting for the Interviews from a href="http://dorptv.wordpress.com/"DORP-TV/a. Last year I posted an interview with a href="http://earthdawn.blogspot.com/2008/03/dor[...]Read on >>
Slowing things down…
You’ve probably noticed that my “one post per day” goal has slipped several times. I don’t know if it’s because there are a lot of things in real life that occupy my free time or some kind o[...]Read on >>
PC/NPC Portraits
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4th Edition Power Creator
Update: The 4e Power Toolkit is now available! Create custom classes, power cards and powers! I’ve resigned myself to the fact Wizards of the Coast is far too busy with other projects to worry about those silly onl[...]Read on >>
Meet the Aghar
So what do you do after you save the world in 3.5e D&D? Why, start all over in 4e, of course! I’m not running the game, this time. Christine (Nox) has volunteered to do so. Wish her luck, as she’s got[...]Read on >>
Printers — Not Just for Paper Anymore
Since the advent of inexpensive desktop publishing, gamers have been utilizing both inkjet and laser printers to provide relatively inexpensive and easy-to-acquire materials for their games.span style="" /spanWhile good[...]Read on >>
Robert Frost’s Cajun Invasion!: Puns, Explosions and Implied Strippers…
This be the log of session numero two-o of three-o session-os that we've played thus far...I'm running them through the Scales of War adventure path, so if you plan on playing the same some day, forget everything after y[...]Read on >>
Drow Necromancer
I thought I'd post the Drow Necromancer I pit the group against a couple of sessions ago. I made him using Asmor's monster creator, and for powers I picked wizard powers reflavored to fit a necromancer, and some undead [...]Read on >>
Pen and paper online dice roller
Hope some of you out there playing pen and paper RPG's might find this useful which I knocked up a few days ago - its a program that rolls dice for you. All dice are included, can be rolled in multiples and are even tota[...]Read on >>
4E makes monster creation fun again! – Revised
Good morning all! And HAPPY HALLOWEEN! This is an edited repost, as Thanks to Graham of www.criticalanklebites.com I have made some minor adjustments to Shkrem and his minions. Enjoy! I am finding that the more I us[...]Read on >>
4E makes monster creation fun again! – Revised
Good morning all! And HAPPY HALLOWEEN!This is an edited repost, as Thanks to Graham of www.criticalanklebites.com I have made some minor adjustments to Shkrem and his minions. Enjoy!I am finding that the more I use As[...]Read on >>
New quiz
I found a new and better way to built quizzes via a href="http://www.mystudiyo.com/"mystudiyo.com/a and so I transformed the old quizzes and made them available again. You can perform the old quizzes over a href="http://[...]Read on >>
GM Block
Like most gamers I got my start playing Damp;D. As a matter of fact I was the DM/GM for the first game in which I ever played and have been doing so in almost every game I have played since. As fantasy gaming was my intr[...]Read on >>
Mapping Tutorial #1 (Setting up your drawing)
Welcome to Part 1 of a series of Mapping Tutorials.br /br /We are going to be using a piece of software called Inkscape.br /br /Inkscape is a open source Vector Drawing Package available for free at a href="http://www.in[...]Read on >>
DD Nth Edition: The Skill System
In thinking about Skills, I've come to realise that although I really like the basic framework of the skill system from 3e, I don't like the scale that it uses and encourages. What I'm talking about here is the way that [...]Read on >>
Truth!
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Rendil’s Rescue
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Robert Frost’s Cajun Invasion!: Let There Be Fight!
3 weeks ago marked the beginning of my second time ever DMing and for an entirely new group of players...this post catalogs the first session...the next two will be posted over the course of this week...I sat down in one[...]Read on >>
Familiar
First, a feat:br /Ritual Knowledge (Familiar)br /strongPrerequisites/strong: Trained in Arcana, Ritual Caster Featbr /strongBenefit/strong: You learn the Familiar Ritualbr /br /Then the ritual:br /br /Familiarbr /You cal[...]Read on >>
Spells Inspired by Heavy Metal, Part One
Ever since Jim Raggi over at a href="http://lotfp.blogspot.com/"Lamentations of the Flame Princess/a casually tossed out a href="http://lotfp.blogspot.com/2008/10/handcuffed-by-fantastic-call-to.html"a half-dozen ODamp;D[...]Read on >>
Licenses and free fantasy resources from Crooked Staff
This is a entry of two halves. Firstly, I'll be having a brief look into game licenses and what they mean for you the gamer and you, the game designer. Secondly, I'll be reviewing some smashingly good fantasy downloads f[...]Read on >>
Dungeoncraft: The Future of Asecia
In the last few weeks I wrote about my campaign world Asecia, its people, nations, history, magic, religion, secrets and even provided you with a short story to set the mood. Currently everything is at a turning point, a[...]Read on >>
Refreshed and Retooled
Since I'm a user of a PC, I'm familiar with the most popular technique invented by Microsoft -- rebooting.br /br /A long time ago, I wrote about how this blog was originally conceived. It was supposed to be about my lif[...]Read on >>
10/25 Actual Play
This session fast forwarded the typical end-of-story wrap up and started the beginning of a new adventure. We leveled to third in the interim. Participating:br /br /Chelsea, playing Ana the Half Elven Clericbr /Chris, pl[...]Read on >>
A-to-Z Guide to RPG Blogs, Forums and More
A After reflecting on the prior (and inaugural) A-TO-Z index, it needs to be more than a list of press releases, which accounted for most of the content. So the focus will be more on pointing to other blogs and message [...]Read on >>
Halfmoon Pandemonium
In the Seven-pillared Hall, Quorbin asks about possible establishments where adventurers might rest, several are apparent but in the end he finds himself fortunately at the Halfmoon Inn. As soon as he settles in a corner[...]Read on >>
Culnas Tasks
The Old Seer has been troubled lately, the rumor says, and now Quorbin, Ayesh Quuls brother, has been summoned to her dwelling. He enters nervous as he presents himself to the oracle. “I am here, Culna. Is there someth[...]Read on >>
Demotivational Monday: Because It’s Awesome
So there I was, sitting in my Film History course, trying to come up with a good cap to this month's Blog Carnival...and I started thinking about those posts I wrote...and then a song popped into my head...and this happe[...]Read on >>
Aerithia Campaign: What’s next?
So the first adventure took our characters from level 1 to level 6. So we now have reached a kind of milestone and we have a opportunity to bring something new to the campaign.So I decided to actually consult with player[...]Read on >>
Make Your RP Successful: Part Two!
Make Your RP Successful! by drawing in the intimidated This is part two in the series “Make Your RP Successful!,” not because I am actually exerting the copious effort of composing a series of loosely-related[...]Read on >>
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