Computers in the very near future…
A video showing a gesture control for computers. Impressive[...]Read on >>
Sunday Scimitar – 01
So every Sunday Ill post up a drawing of a scimitar that I have drawn.br /br /I must have drawn over 100 different scimitars [though a few are similar]. They were used as white space filler in a few HeroQuest supplements[...]Read on >>
5 Homebrew Monsters I Loved Creating
Butchering the meme. I don’t really care for most of D&D’s monsters except for certain few like the Avolakia (MMII D&D 3.5) and Kruthik (4e MM1, D&D 3.5 Minis Handbook) and a few others. However, [...]Read on >>
My Favourite Monsters
a href="http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-favorite-monsters.html"James Maliszewski/a, a href="http://monstersandmanuals.blogspot.com/2009/02/top-10-monsters.html"noisms/a, a href="http://chattydm.net/2009/02/25/m[...]Read on >>
Ten Monsters I Love (But Rarely Use)
I thought I#8217;d chip in on the latest subject to be making its way around the RPG blogs. Instead of just my favorite ten monsters, which would include common reliables like kobolds, dragons, and vampires, though, I [...]Read on >>
My migration of the Tarazet science fiction role-playing game background over to the Traveller system is going apace
This is the Tarazet map and now it represents an ancient enclave at the boundaries of the core Traveller role-playing game sectors. There is a lot of detail in the map of the sector, including may sectors and features f[...]Read on >>
Thursday Game plus Art Update
After a month of game group illnesses crushing any hope of campaigning, I believe the fellow GM in charge of the STAR WARS adventure has decided to put our rebel rumble on the back plasma burner. I have to cut him some s[...]Read on >>
CAUTION – Nuclear Fusion
I felt rather bored and was unable to beat her even in Normal mode (I suck), so I wrote this monster. The stats aren’t meant to simulate the character in its entirety, they’re just for fun. I did try to go by[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 98: PC/DM Resources
Character Sheet/Folio/Codex/Generator as well as Disposable Heroes, Bonus Tools, Campaign Records, DM Screen, Tokens, Dungeon Tiles, and the D&D Basic Stater Set! There’s a lot squeezed into this episode and i[...]Read on >>
What the Heck?
I'm extending the deadline on a href="http://neartpk.blogspot.com/2009/02/weekly-what-heck_21.html"last week's Weekly What the Heck/a by another week for two reasons.br /olliI only got one comment on it so far, and I don[...]Read on >>
Ten DD Monsters
OK, I give in. Here are my favorites:10. Wererats (MM) - What dank sewer system doesn't feature these sneaky, clever creatures? Part of my love for this creature is a fragmentary memory of an old horror comic book that f[...]Read on >>
Map Tutorial from the Cartographers’ Guild
As its 100th post, Mad Brew Labs contributes to this month's RPG Carnival: Monsters & Map Madness. Mad Brew shares a map he created using a fantastic tutorial found on the Cartographers' Guild forums.[...]Read on >>
Word of Wizards – 28/2/09
There goes February. br /br /For the final week of updates this month, it has generally been the routine stuff. Both magazines get compiled in conjunction with the release of their respective art and map galleries while [...]Read on >>
Mutants and Masterminds Week Day 1: Backstory
We’ve had RPG Weeks for Dragon Warriors, the Marvel RPG and the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, but not one for my most loved system of them all - Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds. This week we’re goin[...]Read on >>
How I play the game
This is a re posting. I am still too busy to do a real post, but someday soon real life will no longer interfere with my blogging life. I wrote this post originally as my first post for the RPG Bloggers network and then [...]Read on >>
Campaign Design: Historical and Fictional References
In the last article we dealt with the Next Steps in campaign design, today we’ll discuss various campaign settings, historical periods, novels and talk about the themes that exist within the fantasy genre. This is my f[...]Read on >>
Caves of Chaos – Hobgoblins and Bugbears
If you’ve been following along, then you’ll know that this time I’ll be talking about the hobgoblins and bugbears found in the Caves of Chaos near Drell’s Keep. This is an... [[ This is a conte[...]Read on >>
Impractical Applications, Week 36
It’s another of those weeks for improvising. I’d had tonight’s scenario in mind for two weeks, but finding time to plan—that’s another matter. Particularly this week. First I was teachin[...]Read on >>
Troll – Finished
Whew. Aside from a matte clearcoat to protect him, this troll's paint job is finished. I almost really screwed up bigtime, I kept watching the paint come off the feet, so I eventually just superglued him to a sprue. That[...]Read on >>
Frog & Toad Are Fiends: An Amphibious Top 10
When he wasn't pretending to pop out an eyeball and eat it, my dad used to recite, in tones of solemn gravitas belied by the glee in his eyes, the following poem:Walkin' down the roadSaw a big fat toadGuts layin' all ov[...]Read on >>
Word of Wizards – March Editorial Calendar
a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/calendar"March Editorial Calendar/abr /br /March is a month choke full of excerpts and previews. Not only will the excerpts from the span style="font-style:italic;"Player[...]Read on >>
Visiting a medieval town
I had the beautiful experience of visiting Chester, England today. It borders Wales, on the River Dee. It dates back to the Roman Era, with some businesses even having Roman baths under them, and Roman ruins on dis[...]Read on >>
I like this meme…10 monsters that are welcome to eat my players.
I've noticed this little meme making the rounds, and I LIKE it! As such, I'll desecrate it in my own little way, as I have few actual favorite monsters...more types of monsters that my players have had opportunity to lea[...]Read on >>
My Top 10 Favorite Monsers
Several other blogs that I read have been doing the their top ten favorite monsters (here, here, here, and here). Not being one to miss a meme I present to you mine. (Though most are OD&D).Medusa: A nicely proportion[...]Read on >>
Breezy, a fantasy role-playing game illustration for Illustration Friday
This is a pencil drawing I did a while ago, and it is still one of my favorites. It is a fantastical fantasy construct, ideal for a strange and unusual hideout in a fantasy role-playing game. The illustration shows a ca[...]Read on >>
A day at the races, part 4: relluks
If you like the idea of warforged, but would prefer a more primitive feel to your construct PCs, you might do well to add Remarkable Races: Relluk to your library. In this supplement, Alluria presents the title race as a[...]Read on >>
UK Blogosphere Meetup, Tomorrow!
Live in the United Kingdom? Then come to the RPG Bloggers & Readers Meetup tomorrow![...]Read on >>
The Problems I Noticed Are Surely Outnumbered By Those I Didn’t
February 27, 2009 from How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less
Filed under: Game Mastering, RPG, RPG Hub, Traveller
Game night tonight, but I thought I'd squeeze in a little blog time in just the same, since I don't want to break the short little streak I've built up. I've been trying very hard to avoid the mistakes I made in my last [...] Filed under: Game Mastering, RPG, RPG Hub, Traveller
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Poll Follow-Up
Wow. I guess hardly anyone has any opinion about what I post on my blog since I have gotten exactly ONE comment and ONE vote. With that in mind, I guess I am going to focus on getting back to the campaign series and po[...]Read on >>
Across the Plane of Ulcers
The lantern burned bright and all day we followed its shining beam until we came to the Plane of Ulcers. The air was heavy with the stench of acid. Some pools were tiny and others huge and all of them bubbled and steamed[...]Read on >>
Top Five Monsters not found in DD
I’m liking the Top Ten Monsters thing so much, I decided to do another one. Only there’s five, and they’re not from D&D. Here’s a grab-bag of monters from sources other than Dungeons & Dra[...]Read on >>
Gnomes are Tinkers: Part IV
February 27, 2009 from Mediocre Tales of the Fair to Middling Game Master
Filed under: D&D 4e, RPG Hub
Previously, in part II, I had said that experimentation could makes items worse. I’ve decided against that. After a brief discussion with Deadgod on the subject, I’m going with a suggestion he offered up.[...] Filed under: D&D 4e, RPG Hub
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Random Dungeon Generator Reviews Updated
The "Random Dungeon Generators Reviewed" article I wrote almost a weekend ago received some great feedback. I've updated the article with the changes. Below is a summary of the differences: Another impressive dunge[...]Read on >>
Ch-ch-ch-changes…
I've discovered another really neat side effect of the one page dungeon key. When the players have made contact with the inhabitants, and then left, the subsequent changes and alterations to the key are very easy to make[...]Read on >>
The art of magic
This is most of the planning I’ve done for a game I’m about to run for a group of friends (and possibly one new person, if I can re-establish contact). Setting Mostly realistic medieval Europe, precise locati[...]Read on >>
FLGS: Armored Gopher Games
Last night I decided to check out the new location of one of my local game stores, a href="http://armoredgopher.com/"Armored Gopher Games/a. They relocated about a month ago from a conveniently-located, but too-small sto[...]Read on >>
Dungeonslayers.com
The english edition of Dungeonslayers is nearing completion and today Dungeonslayers.com, the english version of the official DS website went online. If you want to learn more about Dungeonslayers check out the site and[...]Read on >>
How Traveller Changed the Way I Looked at Gaming
pI’ve been gaming now some twenty plus years. DnD was of course the first game that I ever played. It interested me because I had a thing about the middle ages when I was eight years old. I don’t think I started to [...]Read on >>
Earthdawn Quiz Nr. 5
<a href="http://www.mystudiyo.com/act82568/mini/go/earthdawn_quiz_nr._5">earthdawn_quiz_nr._5</a>[...]Read on >>
January Boston Globe Article on DnD
div style="text-align: justify;"Something to mull over on a quiet Friday morning:br /br /"a href="http://www.boston.com/yourtown/newton/articles/2009/01/10/the_never_ending_story/"The Never Ending Story/a"br /br /While y[...]Read on >>
Circlet of Mental Mastery
I found this collection of items tucked away in an old folder during my RPG scanning project. Originally these items were used by Borgyl, an evil cleric pursuing lichdom, to maintain contact and control of his extensive [...]Read on >>
RPGBomb – A Social Networking Site For Roleplayers
So I fully admit, I feel like I live under a rock sometimes. Every week I discover new things about roleplaying games, the roleplaying industry, and roleplaying websites, that it seems like everyone else knows about but[...]Read on >>
10 Monsters I Never Want to See
Several of the DMs out there have posted their top 10 favorite Damp;D monsters (check out a href="http://www.rpgbloggers.com/"RPGBloggers/a to read them all). Here's my list, but slightly twisted. As a player, here a[...]Read on >>
Go, Sentai L5R!
February 27, 2009 from Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer
Filed under: Legend of the Five Rings, RPG Hub
The following is an old Setting Mashup that me and Silver Countess came up with on a whim WAAAY back in 2004, I’m reposting it now as a little bit of nostalgia… and an example of a remarkably amusing combinat[...] Filed under: Legend of the Five Rings, RPG Hub
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Monster: Sshian
SshianArmour Class: 5Hit Dice: 2+2**Move: 120' (40')Attacks: 1 bite or weaponDamage: 1-6 or weapon + poisonNo. Appearing: 2-8 (3-24)Save As: F3Morale: 9Treasure Type: AAlignment: ChaoticXP Value: 45Patient and cunning, [...]Read on >>
HERO System: Does Riddle of Steel
Well, it's Friday and I'd normally comment about something I saw on other blogs this week. But nothing there really inspired a rant or expansion even if I enjoyed some of them. Top a href="http://webamused.com/bumblers/?[...]Read on >>
SKETCH:Macabre
Macabre is a free PDF game about quasi-historical witchcraft, using the SKETCH system. It’s yet another example posted by Jonathan Hicks to show how a setting can easily be put together using the rules. It’s [...]Read on >>
um… fear my wrath, puny mortals?
a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lpL870wV2A4/Saf5XMf-2mI/AAAAAAAADxs/EmWbgR5ke4U/s1600-h/0450DungeoneersJournal24.jpg"img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307484862767094370" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 1[...]Read on >>
RPP-000: RPG Theory Bibliography
The Labs provides an extensive list of resources to expand your knowledge on RPG Theory. If you see something missing feel free to plug it in the comments!=.[...]Read on >>
Chatty’s Preview: Master Dungeons H2, Curse of the Kingspire
Please note that this post reveals some spoilers about the adventure presented here. A few days ago I was contacted by my good friend Ed who wanted to start another round of blog and podcasts posts about a common subje[...]Read on >>
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