Campaign Primer: The Rebellion
Over the years I have had the privilege of being the DM for a group of players that have included several DM’s that play in other groups. On many occasions they have asked me for input on their own campaigns; adventu[...]Read on >>
Seven Days, Seven Blades of Luck – Luck Drinker
span style="font-size:130%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/spanLuck Drinker is a scimitar of the finest craftsmanship. Sand dragon skin wrapped hilt and large hematite pommel counter balance the blade of folded met[...]Read on >>
One Page Dungeon Level Templates
Yesterday, Sham/Dave a href="http://shamsgrog.blogspot.com/2008/12/dismal-depths.html"posted about his attempts to create a template for a "one page" dungeon level key/a. That was all prompted by a a href="http://odd74.[...]Read on >>
Happy New Year
To end the year I was looking for a possibility to provide the posts of this year as a PDF to make them available offline. First I just wanted to publish the "interviews" as PDF document. But it was harder than expected [...]Read on >>
Happy New Year!
And so 2009 begins, and with it the countdown to the third most popular date in Science Fiction (behind 2000 and 2001). Funny, it doesn’t look all that different to the tail end of 2008. That shouldn’t be su[...]Read on >>
Spellcraft & Swordplay
I have just purchased the download version at Lulu. Based on James Maliszewski's review I suspect it's similar to what I'm trying to do with OD&D.Look for a review next week.[...]Read on >>
HAVE A TPK NEW YEAR!!
From me, to all of you...Have a happy and safe years end celebration, or not. I plan on playing WoW with my wife : ) Happy happy obligatory holiday greeting dispensed, now for the good stuff.I have found new life in the [...]Read on >>
Links O’ Names
Ever since I read span style="font-style: italic;""All Games Need Names"/span by Katharine Kerr in my copy of Dragon #75 I've been facinated by fantasy name and language generation. Although I've rarely(ok never) put in[...]Read on >>
Austin Game Scene 2009
span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" Austin Area FLGS's/spanbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T3COvm-9K_w/SUzEXfkbqZI/AAAAAAAAACw/MGpGLeTr[...]Read on >>
Say It With Monsters
I think one of the key things that drew me to becoming a DM was the monsters. As a youth I was never much of a world-builder. My Cinder setting is in fact my first from the ground up go at such stuff. Previously I wou[...]Read on >>
StumbleUpon Drops a Bomb on RoleplayingPro
Around 4pm on December 30th, I woke up (I work nights for those who don’t know) and went into my normal routine. I jumped online and was surprised to see that my e-mail box had a lot more mail than normal. Once I check[...]Read on >>
Farewell Living Greyhawk or is It?
Well today is the last day of the RPGA Living Greyhawk Campaign, or is it? Around here a bunch of RPGA people are continuing the saga on their own. I have volunteered to run one game a month until we are out of RPGA mod[...]Read on >>
A Mini-Review of Castle Whiterock
In case you didn't know, Goodman Games will discontinue selling their line of 3.5 DD products TODAY! Most are available in PDF format for only $2, with a couple of the big boxed sets priced at $5. Included in the sale is[...]Read on >>
Making a Pre-made Adventure a Home Made Adventure
There is a certain prejudice among some gamers against using pre-made adventures. They are so cookie cutter that it begins to feel more like playing Monopoly than dungeons and dragons (not that... [[ This is a content[...]Read on >>
Transformative Character Classes
span style="font-size:85%;"A post contributed to the a href="http://www.critical-hits.com/2008/12/01/rpg-blog-carnival-transitions-and-transformations/"span style="font-style: italic;"Transitions and Transformations/span[...]Read on >>
My perfect FLGS… and I’ve joined the madness
Last night, I visited a href="http://www.games-plus.com/"Games Plus in Mt. Prospect IL/a to arrange a table for the upcoming Dark Ages kickoff on 1/24.br /br /This place is FLGS heaven. I felt like I was 14 again, walkin[...]Read on >>
On Running the Game
December 31, 2008 from How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less
Filed under: Game Mastering, RPG, RPG Hub
I can remember the first moment I knew, absolutely, that I wanted to be a Dungeon Master. That wasn't the first moment that I'd had the desire, but it was a misty, half-formed thing, dating to a time when "Dungeons Drag[...] Filed under: Game Mastering, RPG, RPG Hub
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RoleplayingPro – Best of 2008
December 31, 2008 from Roleplayingpro
Filed under: Game Mastering, Game Sessions, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews, roleplaying
RoleplayingPro was created in late 2008. As a relatively new entrant to the world of roleplaying blogs, I’d like to take a look back at what we were able to accomplish in 2008.
Most Controversial Post – Common Mistak[...] Filed under: Game Mastering, Game Sessions, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews, roleplaying
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A year gone by…
Wow… that’s been quite a year. 2008 marked my first full year as a RPG blogger. It was also a year filled with amazing achievements and some humbling realizations. I intially wanted to review last year’[...]Read on >>
The Advantage of Familiarity In Regards to Huge, Slavering Hell-Beasts
31 Dec 08 - The Advantage of Familiarity In Regards to Huge, Slavering Hell-Beasts I've noticed something. Of those wonderful people who think up horrifying monsters for players to encounter during a tabletop[...]Read on >>
Slipstream, a Pulp SciFi Setting for Savage Worlds
If you’ve ever wanted to play a Flash Gordon-esque roleplaying game then rejoice, because Slipstream is here. A pocket dimension accessible only through a black hole, it’s home to dozens of planetoids and doz[...]Read on >>
Classic D&D’s evolving gameplay
This is my (somewhat belated) contribution to this month’s Blog Carnival: “Transitions and Transformations” hosted at Critical Hits. It’s a truism that those who do not study History are destined to repea[...]Read on >>
A Quality Of Spirit
What exactly is the soul? No, I’m not getting all existential and metaphysical on you, I’m asking the question objectively and literally. You see, one of my D&D campaigns has this question of the nature[...]Read on >>
Happy New Year
Just want to wish everyone a prosperous New Year full of geeky fun.br /May your comics be mint and your dice roll true.div class="blogger-post-footer"Subscribeimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleuserconte[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 94: Apelord and Half-Dead
Jeremiah McCoy brings you this review of two PDFs from One Bad Egg. These are two new races to be used for 4th edition D&D, the Apelord and the Half-Dead. No monkey business, I’m dead serious! Links: RPG Now O[...]Read on >>
Six Of The Best For 2009…
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Last Day for December ‘08 Blog Carnival
Today is the last day for the latest RPG Blog Carnival about “Transitions and Transformations” before UncleBear takes over . So if you want to get an entry into this month’s carnival, you want to do ..[...]Read on >>
Seven Days, Seven Blades of Luck – Flynn’s Edge
span style="font-size:130%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"/span/spanFlynn's Edge, a thin slightly curved saber, is much too light for its silvery metal blade and guard to be anything mundane. The richly carved basket g[...]Read on >>
Happy New Year!
Apologies on my recent lack of posts. Blogging has been light recently due to real world commitments and development work on my new role-playing search engine site (official launch date early next month), but I shall r[...]Read on >>
This is an Awesome Post
December 30, 2008 from The Hydra's Grotto
Filed under: Advice/Tools, Fluff/Inspiration, Game Design, RPG Hub
No not this post. THIS POST, by the great Sham, is awesome. First it shows somthing he is doing. Second it illustrates a principle of game design. Third you get a great how to that you can easily replicate yourself and l[...] Filed under: Advice/Tools, Fluff/Inspiration, Game Design, RPG Hub
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1d20 Dreams for the Dying and Unconscious
This table has taken a while to write. I have been coming up with the ideas sort of piecemeal on my lunchbreaks over the past couple of months. The idea is that in a fight, when death is near and a character goes unconsc[...]Read on >>
Top RPG News and Trends of 2008
Despite an admittedly tough market, I’d argue that it’s an exciting time to be a roleplaying gamer. New games push the envelope on the roleplaying experience, new systems bring innovation to tried and true me[...]Read on >>
Just One of the Boys
After deciding that indeed my character, Sir Throserl Baird the Gnome Historian, was going to be a male I began thinking about what this actually means for the way I am going to play. I am concerned that I won’t[...]Read on >>
“The First Amendment does not cover MERPing”
I’ve previously mentioned that over the years I’ve lost an awful lot of my gaming books. I’ve misplaced at least half of my ADnD books somewhere and of all my other systems only my Rolemaster books seem[...]Read on >>
“The First Amendment does not cover MERPing”
I’ve previously mentioned that over the years I’ve lost an awful lot of my gaming books. I’ve misplaced at least half of my ADnD books somewhere and of all my other systems only my Rolemaster books seem[...]Read on >>
2008 Wrap Up: Currently playing
As 2008 draws to an end my current RPG activities have been divided between face-to-face games which meet about once per month each and a couple of weekly or bi-weekly online games. My local groups are playing: Mutant[...]Read on >>
Year-end evaluation and thoughts for the future
I think that the release of 4e this year has knocked my blogging for a loop. I haven't really posted much d20 OGC since then. I'm not sure of the relevancy of it any more. I feel like this blog's mission, which has been [...]Read on >>
When mapping becomes a chore (Wife’s solo game observation)
Taken from the a href="http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric/"OSRIC Version 2.0 Core Rulebook/a:br /br /span style="font-style: italic;"It is important to understand the purpose of the players’ map. The goal is not to [...]Read on >>
Roleplaying music: “Dead Space”
Dead Space is a SF-horror-themed third person shooter for the PC and several gaming consoles. I had the opportunity to play the game for a couple of hours recently and the first thing I thought was “Wow! This would[...]Read on >>
Thoughts for the New Year
pIt's been a long and hard year for Bonemaster personally. Starting this blog has been the greatest thing for my mental health. Of course the New Year is coming up and I’ve been wondering what my goals for this year ar[...]Read on >>
DD or Rifts: New Campaign(s) Brewing?
With one less player, our weekly game night may be in for a reshuffling. We have been playing Rifts almost weekly since mid September, but we are losing one third of the party at least semi-permanently. Though I'm no[...]Read on >>
Eight Gaming New Year’s Resolutions
Eight's not a very elegant number, but it'll do. With apologies to a href="http://poleandrope.blogspot.com/"Amityville Mike/a for stealing totally ripping off his own a href="http://poleandrope.blogspot.com/2008/12/twelv[...]Read on >>
In Defense of Big Print
One of the criticisms that I read concerning the books coming out for 4th Edition DD is that the print is 'too big' and that there is 'too much whitespace'. I can agree with those critcicisms if you just consider them f[...]Read on >>
Playing an ODD Solo Game with my wife – fourth (and ongoing) session
We continued our solo game last night, having paused it from Sunday night because we both just got too tired to continue. And, like Sunday night, we had such a good time that the two hours passed very quickly. I decided [...]Read on >>
MMORPG Armageddon?
While catching up on the news this week, I came across an interesting tidbit at Virtual Worlds News: Worlds.com has sued NCSoft, the publisher of such games as City of Heroes, Lineage II, and the ill-fated Tabula Rasa.[...]Read on >>
Rules Hacking 101: Hack Smarter, Not Harder
This is more food for thought than a rule, really: If you’re using more than 3 house rules, you may want to consider using a different system. Allow me to clarify that. I’m not talking about minor tweaks that[...]Read on >>
Palladium Sucks! Or Does It? Yeah, It Does…
We hate what we love, and we love what we hate. At least, that is the way I feel about pretty much all Palladium games. I own dozens of Palladium system books such as Palladium Fantasy, Rifts, Ninjas & Superspies, Be[...]Read on >>
Plans for New Year’s Eve
Christmas is over and it’s time to make plans for New Year’s Eve. This year we are not having a big party (if I ever had a big party at New Year’s Eve) but some friends will come over to play “Dar[...]Read on >>
And now for something green and kewt…
..and no..it's not a LOL... well..not in so many words.br /br /a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 0px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-08434607016406207 visible"[...]Read on >>
Notes on Betrayal
Betrayal, by its very nature, is a strong dramatic element. The emotions it sparks run the gamut from sadness to rage, more so than standard conflict would; in addition, it can shape the worldview of those who have[...]Read on >>
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