Roads go ever ever on..
I just posted about the end of the first chapter of my campaign of T&T. It felt a bit sad, but also satisfying to close the book. What would come of this? Today I was down at one of our FLGSs, and peeked in on the A[...]Read on >>
An A-to-Z List of Lesser-Known Roleplaying Games: Part 1
Here’s the first part of a list of 26 lesser-known roleplaying games, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some of these you’ve probably heard of, others you may not. Many of these are out of print, but can[...]Read on >>
Someone Write These Games So I Can Play Them.
When we put forth the effort to write a game, it’s usually because we’re in love with the concept and want to see someone do something about it. The problem with writing games is that it’s hard to get[...]Read on >>
Friday Five: 2009-07-31
A friend of mine suggested I start doing a “Friday Five” which contains the five top blog articles about role playing that I’ve seen during the week. So… here is the first Friday Five for Ravenous[...]Read on >>
A Great Day for a D&D Pick Up Game
Your friends are over and there's time for a pick up game, but you haven't had a chance to prep something? Don't worry. Step 1: Grab the random, comprehensive B/X character generator from A Rust Monster Ate My Sword.Step[...]Read on >>
10 Ways to Vary Your Game World’s Cultures
Cultures should not have a one-to-one relationship with countries or states in your game world. Many provinces will have more than one culture and in many cases the cultures may overlap. In some cases where they over[...]Read on >>
Amber Diceless RPG, Sample Characters II
To continue with a special request for some Amber Diceless RPG material, since we had a couple of Lords of Chaos in the last entry, here are a couple of starting-level Lords of Amber. Sabre, Lord of Amber [...]Read on >>
HackMaster Basic Resources
If you're getting ready to play HackMaster Basic, here's a great selection of tools and documents to make your life a lot easier: Official Character Sheet Alternate Character Sheet Fillable PDF Character Sheet GM[...]Read on >>
Diary of a Gamer 7/31/2009
We got the game started pretty late last night, about 8:30 or so, and immediately sought to return the cave we had been exploring. It didn't take long to get to the night's first battle, as there was a group of kobolds [...]Read on >>
My mind, it wanders!
July 31, 2009 from Critical Failure: The GURPS Podcast
Filed under: GURPS, RPG, RPG Hub, podcast, roleplaying
… The red Honda Civic whooshes past my head, end over end and glances off a cement pillar before plummeting out over the barrier of the roof parking lot and free falls to the street 16 stories below.
That one was [...] Filed under: GURPS, RPG, RPG Hub, podcast, roleplaying
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Dwarf Fist
This somewhat under-sized but heavy war hammer is clearly designed for a Dwarf's shorter stature and reach. The entire item has been shaped from a single piece of bright, silvery metal. The thick, stubby handle has a tig[...]Read on >>
Playing the Dungeon of Voorand – the end?
Last night we had the final session for the campaign. At least it will be the last session with these players, and in Kingston ON. I ran it like I have done it since the start, with a Megadungeon and a sandbox attitude [...]Read on >>
Team Fortress 2 RPG
I just found an article that came out earlier this month in regards to a rpg being home brewed based on Team Fortress 2. Not sure how many of you have seen it as I missed it the first time around. http://tf2rpg.blogspot.[...]Read on >>
Nerd Watching: Transmogrify Your Game!
We discuss goblin stomping shoes and how "Calvin and Hobbes" can change your game![...]Read on >>
Back from vacation
I’m back from my trip to the US, with quite a haul of RPG materials. Amongst some of the items I brought back: A Penny For My Thoughts Burning Empires Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies Dread Dogs in the Vineyard (the b[...]Read on >>
Kicking a player to the curb
(note: this is a post from my very quiet blog about my ongoing campaign. I keep it quiet, because I feel not a lot of people want to follow a D&D game in a blog. It rarely seems as fun as the game itself. But I have[...]Read on >>
Distributed Workshop – 7/31/09
Remember a while back when I said, arguably the most useful 3rd party products are the ones that expand your game (ie. DM stuff, adventures, monsters, setting material) . . . well that is what Nevermet Press is cranking [...]Read on >>
Earthquake!
Skylar Krewis met us at the jailhouse door with a mask over his face. The smell hit me as he spoke. “It’s the goblins. They’re just so… rank. I don’t know if we’ll ever get the smell o[...]Read on >>
Amber Diceless RPG – Sample Characters
Today, due to a special request, we have a few starting-level characters for the Amber Diceless RPG: Malinbert The Inept, Of Chaos Strength;16, Psyche; 5, Endurance; Amber (0), Warfare; Chaos (-10). Good St[...]Read on >>
Personalities of the Rainy City — Part V
Rogues, villains, and miscreants from last week's game. Vengus Ult: An alchemist who of late seems unusually well informed about the boat and ship market. What use could an alchemist have with a boat? Garmoud, the Bloody[...]Read on >>
Finally Ready for Prime Time: Self-filling Expert Dungeons and Dragons Character Sheet
As I promised, here's the self-filling Expert D&D (Cook B/X edition) character sheet. With the push of a button, the sheet will populate itself with a complete character, from all levels and classes available as per [...]Read on >>
Noir Robots
At Penny Arcade.I want to play that. Now.[...]Read on >>
New Category- Game Reviews
In the next week or so I am going to start doing Game Reviews, so if you have suggestions for games to review please let me know. If you are a game publisher and you would like me to review your game please contact me vi[...]Read on >>
Nehwon Maps at Buffoons & Beasts
Friar Deep at Buffoons & Beasts has posted a couple of his hand-drawn Nehwon maps. These look great and as such I’m now more inclined to keep my more amateurish attempts safely in my box of old role-playing m[...]Read on >>
Time is running out to vote for Critical Hits! Voting ends Saturday Night!
You only have until the end of Saturday, 8/1 to vote for us in the 2009 Ennie Awards for Best Website. (Remember, you don’t need to vote for any other category if you don’t want ...[...]Read on >>
Children of the Hellrock, Part 2: Feats
I introduced my variation on the duergar, the Hellrock clan, a little bit ago. They’re basically duergar sans the quills who have become obsessed with their infernal heritage. What follows are some feats at each [...]Read on >>
1KM1KT, Free RPG Blog 24 Hour Competition Winner!
Three months, three judges, thirty games, twenty four hours. Thirty days of judging, reading, reviewing, chatting and much wringing of hands and weeping like widows. The quality was high, the ideas broad and novel and ev[...]Read on >>
Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 20: Feed the Dead, Part 1
The Icosahedrophilia Podcast has finally reached a number of episodes equal to the number of faces on everybody’s favorite polyhedron, and we celebrate by launching a new story arc called “Feed the Dead”[...]Read on >>
Distributed Workshop: Immeril Lithos
We like to draw attention to the talented members of our community by giving an open call to anyone with a website to develop statblocks of our villains, NPCs, monsters, items & equipment, and other components releas[...]Read on >>
Embrace your digital future, D&D players!
As I was working on my campaign with the new Monster Builder something hit me: I’m prepping for D&D, and I haven’t opened one book. This is significant. For years , the game has been played with a stack[...]Read on >>
The Jade Pillar Dynasty – “Our Rule is Eternal”
Not all of the lands of the Sea of Stars welcome visitors, some are quite happy to be left alone in their ways. One such place is: The Jade Pillar Dynasty For more than seventy generations, since before the Sundering, [...]Read on >>
Nebin, Gnome Illusionist
Ronak's totally awesome gnome illusionist from Monday's delve run.====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ======Nebin, level 4Gnome, WizardArcane Implement Mastery: Orb of DeceptionFINAL ABILI[...]Read on >>
Generic Human Barbarian
A simple-but-effective human barbarian to compliment Greywulf's character concept render.====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ======Human Barbarian, level 1Human, BarbarianFeral Might: Rage[...]Read on >>
Super-Simple Combat Maneuvers
I’m a fan of players being able to do more things in combat than just tick off damage against opponents. Things like disarming, tripping, forcing the opponent to yield ground, binding their weapon and so forth ad[...]Read on >>
Official Previews for 7/31/2009
Today's preview again is just for Adventurer's Vault 2, today covering Story Items for Implements (rods)Two rods are covered, the Rod of Stolen Starlight and the Rod of Silver Rain.Also there is official confirmation tha[...]Read on >>
Gaming and music: Firing on all cylinders
For last week's Autumn Frontiers campaign, I queued up about 70 assorted metal songs and let 'em rip over the course of our 5-hour game. Among those was a record that I consider to be my campaign's muse: Wintersun, an al[...]Read on >>
The One Page Dungeon Codex (and More!)
For those too excited to read: The One Page Dungeon Codex 2009 The Combined One Page Dungeons These last few weeks, Chgowiz and I have been working at delivering on our promise of creating a special PDF file that brou[...]Read on >>
Condition Tracker
As the DM you’ve got a lot of responsibility. You’re accountable for everything that’s not the Player Characters. It’s a tough job. But today we’re making it a little bit easier by giving you a Condition Tracke[...]Read on >>
Dragonlance Comics (Issue 22) – Landfall
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{Quest Log} Pre-Campaign Blues
After going through the disastrous TPK during our one-shot session, the group has decided that they like to move on to a long term campaign.I proposed to the group that we should go through all the published modules from[...]Read on >>
The One Page Dungeon Contest PDFs
ChattyDM and I would like to present the One Page Dungeon Codex 2009 (the Hobbyist version) and the One Page Dungeon Compendium.You can get them here:One Page Dungeon Codex 2009One Page Dungeon CompendiumThe Codex is a c[...]Read on >>
Planning & Improvising
Last night, I ran a new adventure for my ongoing Warhammer campaign. About a week before a new adventure, I start e-mailing the various members of my gaming group about the upcoming game session, asking them about the [...]Read on >>
The Gamer Traveler & The Travel Channel: A Twitter Tale
The following conversation developed over Twitter a couple of days ago. I found it hilarious and enlightening at the same time. There’s a question at the end for you to answer (skip to it here).[...]Read on >>
Strike Force 7 (Savaged!)
“Strike Force 7 is the code name for America’s daring, highly trained special mission force. Its purpose, to defend human freedom…” With all apologizes to G.I. Joe, Strike Force 7 (Savaged!) by Caias Ward is a [...]Read on >>
Strike Force 7 (Atomic Array 028)
Strike Force 7 (Atomic Array 028) This week Stan! Brown and Hyrum Savage join us – they’re here to enlist your help in fighting terrorist organizations bent on world domination as part of Strike Force 7! OtherWorld [...]Read on >>
Hiding in Plain Sight
I’m going to take a brief intermission from The Savage World Ends With You to cover something else Savage that I’ve been given the opportunity to cover: Strike Force 7. Strike Force 7 is a supplement for Sava[...]Read on >>
A Day with Mr. Ambrose
The overstuffed leather office chair protested loudly on its wheels beneath Laok’s weight. In their natural form, imps were rather light creatures – most being under three feet tall and composed primarily of hot gas [...]Read on >>
Impressions: Strike Force 7
Strike Force 7, by OtherWorld Creations, was originally released several years ago in an OGL/Spycraft-compatible version. It’s now been re-released in Savage Worlds and RuneQuest versions, with some updated backgro[...]Read on >>
Friday Discussion: The Best RPG Of The Past 5 Years
Another week recorded in the Great Book of Blogging, and another Friday where the majority of the RPG Bloggers Network descends into a strange malaise, seduced into a drowsy half-slumber by the siren call of the weekend.[...]Read on >>
Quiz: What kind of player are you?
So I was reading along Stargazer’s World (a nifty RPG blog here), and saw a quiz he found and decided to give it a shot myself. You Scored as Storyteller You're more inclined toward the role playing side of t[...]Read on >>
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