I Like Dwarves
Ever since I read span style="font-style: italic;"The Hobbit /spanI've been fascinated by dwarves. I love the stunty little guys! As I mentioned in the last Damp;D podcast, I've been messing around with some dwarf sub-ty[...]Read on >>
Making Critical Hits More Interesting
An essay on another blog a few weeks back reminded me that I always wanted to revise critical hits to make them more interesting. When considering ways to do this, I remembered how much I loved the old Battletech critic[...]Read on >>
Scales of War 2 3 – My god, she’s actually writing!
So, yeah… sorry for the delays everybody. As Graham mentioned earlier, real life kinda got away from us for a while. Therefore the goal here is to get caught up before I run yet another session tomorrow. Session 2 [...]Read on >>
A month since my last post…
...and I get inspired by Scott at WOD&D to stat up a sleazebag, drug-addled, disease ridden squirrel? My muse, she is a strange one.Todd T Squirrel:Drug runner (3),Handy with a shank (3),Frikkin' awesome van (3),STD[...]Read on >>
Continuous initiative
Back when I created Necrotech (a computer roleplay game which was itself loosely based on the setting I made for Snapshot 3000 - a game which only my oldest friends and family ever got to play) I implemented a round base[...]Read on >>
GW Short Fiction – Hoop Dreams
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RPG Blog Carnival: Religion
Ah! There is still time for me to get my post in for this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, themed, much like this month’s issue of Roolipelaaja (In which I incidentally had an article about Pathfinder RPG and revie[...]Read on >>
Shadow’s Apex Part 11: Filling in Racial Flavor
I want to first thank everyone for the feedback I received the last time I posted about the Shadow's Apex campaign. Even though it has been weeks since I worked on the campaign wiki, I am keeping all of the comments and[...]Read on >>
OSRIC v2 Released
The OSRIC version 2 SRD has been released to the public. This much expanded version features everything a group needs to begin playing and publishing 1st edition adventures. Project Editor-in-Chief Stuart Marshall had th[...]Read on >>
We Want Your Braiiiinns… or My Winter Reading List…
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OSRIC 2.0 is Out. Get your Free Copy NOW!
OSRIC 2.0 is finally out and at about 400 pages of First Edition retro-clone goodness, it was well worth the long wait. The original version of OSRIC was only about 130 pages. While OSRIC 1.0 seemed to be designed more a[...]Read on >>
Order of the d30
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My game location at Dragonmeet 2008
This is where my Serenity: HeroQuest game takes place between 10:30 - 14:00.br /br /I have managed to be upgraded out of the basement!br /br /br /a target=_blank href=http://s122.photobucket.com/albums/o270/DarranSims/?a[...]Read on >>
Re: Black Friday
I just finished reading this post on Exchange of Realities, by Ravyn. I’ve never before heard of such tradition, and believe me it was entertaining to be informed such. I believe that the reason why such practice i[...]Read on >>
How To Invent a Role-Playing Adventure, Part 2
28 Nov 08 - How To Invent a Role-Playing Adventure, Part 2 When last we left our adventurers, they were swimming north in hot pursuit of Princess Teela, who adamantly refused to return to her parents until she[...]Read on >>
Book Review: The Rage – A Forsaken Player’s Guide
The Rage, the player’s guide to the Forsaken, is the how-to-be-a-werewolf guide that the core rulebook of The Forsaken doesn’t provide. It offers detailed answers to in-depth questions on what makes a Forsake[...]Read on >>
Some site updates
I’ve made a few tweaks to the site today. From now on the permalinks to pages and posts are much prettier than before. To link to this post for example you can use http://www.stargazersworld.com/2008/11/28/some-sit[...]Read on >>
Dungeonslayers
Recently I stumbled upon a new rules-light roleplaying game called “Dungeonslayers”. Dungeonslayers consists of 12 pages of rules and is meant as a fun and easy to play fantasy RPG. There is no setting provid[...]Read on >>
Do you suppose they know?
I saw an advertisement for this company in the Boston subway. I don’t think the other riders understood why I found it so funny. Bookmark It [...]Read on >>
How I Spent My Thanksgiving
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ESCARGO for 3e cleaned up
ESCARGO for GURPS 3e is now cleaned up as well; it should be much easier to read. ESCARGO is a look at an unusual option for GURPS: skill and attribute costs that just go up, up, up. It looks odd, but offers a surprisin[...]Read on >>
What the Hell We Supposed ta Do, Ya’ Mo-dron!?
span style="font-family:arial;"Okay, unless you're familiar with the movie, "Animal House", you probably don't get the title. Let me explain. So the other day I was over at at Greywulf's Lair, and noticed a href="http:[...]Read on >>
4th Edition DD over the Internet
Recently I got back in contact with my old D&D gaming group in Sydney. They’re eager to play 4e, and I have some experience with the system thanks to a good friend of mine whose creativity and DMing skills far [...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 91: DCC 53-55
Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games have gone 4e with these first three installments of 1st level adventures intended to hit the 2e feel. Hear what I think about DCC53: Sellswords of Punjar, DCC54: Forge of the Mou[...]Read on >>
A non-update by virtue of…an update!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!Be safe.Have fun.Kill no-oneEat Turkey (or Tofurkey if you are so inclined)Game wellTalk to y'all in December!img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/thefineartofthetpk/~4/6qkly0T8b8Y" height="1" [...]Read on >>
Asmor’s Instant Dungeon
Taking a dose of my own medicine I will now create a dungeon in 45 min using Asmor to help me build encounters and select treasure lots.So starting with the Treasure lots:[Level 5 Magic Item]: Bloodthread Armor +1 (Playe[...]Read on >>
A DD Lego Moment: Centaur
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Cold City: Actual Play Session Pending…
On the agenda for tonight is a one-shot session of a href="http://www.contestedground.co.uk/coldprev.html"Cold City/a, Malcolm Craig’s atmospheric game of conspiracy and horror set in postwar Berlin. I’m the GM, whic[...]Read on >>
Do you have any humorous house rules?
My new online campaign started this past weekend and I was pleased to have two players who are completely new to the world of Dungeons and Dragons. Soon after the PCs entered the dungeon, they heard me (DM) say this. DM:[...]Read on >>
COSH for 3e and other site updates
A little spring cleaning sure feels good! Huh? You mean spring was, like... back in spring? Oh. Well, spring cleaning in late fall still counts as cleaning, so I don't care about getting the season wrong. (Probably shou[...]Read on >>
Dead Orcs…Assemble!!
span style="font-family:arial;"I am fortunate that I DM a group of intelligent and fun-loving people. Each one brings his or her own unique brand of role-playing to the table; and our gaming sessions are the better for [...]Read on >>
The Adventure Funnel
The single most useful piece of GM advice I've yet read is Dr Rotwang's Adventure Funnel, a quick and satisfying technique for creating nuanced and memorable adventures.[...]Read on >>
Back in the Saddle
span style=font-size: largerI have just undergone a small crisis recently with some players of my group not happy with the game system I am running. Now I must admit that I do *really* like strongHeroQuest/strong, and th[...]Read on >>
More Gamma World Short Fiction – Sleeth Stacks
"So, it is a picture but it is also a number?"The sleeth teacher nodded for what seemed an eternity. Then in his reedy hiss he replied, 'Yess, thiss iss the essence of it, yess.'The boy still bore the same puzzled look. [...]Read on >>
Need Inspiration : Look Here
The page is staring at me, it's emptiness taunting me, freezing my creative juices and dooming me to another lost hour of "Not Writing". Yes, I often suffer from blank page syndrome (a.k.a) writers block. If I move away [...]Read on >>
Terms of Confusion
It's easy in designing a game, particularly an RPG, to overlook the importance of building a good vocabulary for your game. It's not a particularly exciting or thrilling part of the process, but if you screw it up you ca[...]Read on >>
Gametable Tutorial: How to Host A Game
You’ve got your map all ready. Pogs and Underlays laid out. Now let’s host a game! Here’s how its done, along with some solutions to some common problems. After you have Gametable open, head up to the[...]Read on >>
Keyword: Awesome!!
Latest Oots script #611 got me thinking. Our gaming group is a light roleplaying group. We laugh a lot during our sessions and the mood isn’t too serious. Somebody usually has a terrible hangover or something like that[...]Read on >>
“Endings” Continues… Pyramid No More
Eulogy SectionIt's with some regret that I had to say goodbye to Pyramid Online Magazine last week. Steve Jackson Games' in-house magazine is moving on and turning itself into a third format. 10 years ago, it went from a[...]Read on >>
Go back to school with Swords and Wizardry by Matthew J Finch
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No more DD for me… for a while
I'm taking this holiday season off from Damp;D. I'm a bit tired of all the hype, trash talking and in fighting among fans (I've done my fair share of all of them) about 4e and have decided to remove myself from the whole[...]Read on >>
Creating the Best Antagonists
I love creating antagonists. They’re bad, they’re often evil and they’re human. Sometimes writing about the antagonist is more of a challenge than writing for the protagonist because not only do you hav[...]Read on >>
More lessons from the Wasteland
I've been playing a lot of a href="http://neitherworldstories.blogspot.com/2008/11/fallout-3-and-thoughts-on-edition.html"Fallout/a a href="http://neitherworldstories.blogspot.com/2008/11/fallout-3-intro-and-character.ht[...]Read on >>
The Week In Geek (One Month To Christmas Special)…
A round-up of geeky news you might have missed...br /br /(1) stronga href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10094740-52.html"Alien Contact In A Few Years/a/strong: Senior SETI astronomer Seth Shostak believes we could m[...]Read on >>
Inching Closer to Production
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Problems Identified
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Campaign prep for the high fantasy one-shot
Because of the Thanksgiving holiday week a couple of us in the group are anticipating a less than adequate showing for keeping any kind of story continuity for our main campaign. Thus, another one shot. I volunteered t[...]Read on >>
NPC Spotlight: Devil
Last time I wrote an NPC Spotlight, it was Ghost to received all the attention. This time, it is one of Ghost's rivals, an archfiend from Dyval who now makes his home on Rifts Earth selling slaves to the Splugorth. Thi[...]Read on >>
Quick Review: Dead Reign
Though it didn't get published in time for Halloween, as I had hoped, I finally got my copy in the mail and it did not disappoint.br /Dead Reign takes place on an earth that has been over run with zombies. Over all it is[...]Read on >>
RPGBloggers NaNoWriMo – Short Story (Part 3)
Check out a href="http://rpgcentric.com/rpgbloggers-nanowrimo-short-story-part-3.html"part three/a of the Nanowrimo short story.div class="blogger-post-footer"Subscribeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://res1.blogblog.c[...]Read on >>
