New Years Eve Foray Into 4e
So the guys are coming over tonight for some food and fun. Since we have plenty of time, I am really hoping to squeeze in a 4e playtest. I've talked a lot of junk about the game, but have yet to play it. Perhaps the quic[...]Read on >>
CA Smith: The Rennaisance Man of Fantasy
I am always amazed at CA Smith's versatility in his art and the range of subjects that he learned (self-taught for the most part). Poet, short-story writer, painter, sculptor, translator (of French and Spanish poet[...]Read on >>
Return of the New Minions
I mentioned a couple weeks back that I had introduced my younger nieces to D&D. They've apparently taken the concept and run with it, with their own personal twist. Christmas Eve they surprised the family by doing a [...]Read on >>
Holiday Dungeon Contest Winner
The Dungeon’s Master team proudly announces Krangel’s Workshop submitted by Corwin Riddle as the winner of our Design a Holiday Dungeon Contents. Corwin’s entry was clearly inspirited by the Christmas classic [...]Read on >>
Out With The Old, In With The New
Well, it's the end of 2009. The year went a little differently than I thought it would, but then again, that always seems to be the case. On a personal level, all things considered, it was marvelous. After all, gaming ha[...]Read on >>
Castle El Raja Key Update 2
Andy Taylor finished the full page print that will be included in the release of this project. IMO it is his best work to date. Andy will also be drawing some interior illustrations for it. Eric Berger[...]Read on >>
Loot
For Christmas this year, I got a couple game-related items. First and most obvious was my very own copy of Dominion, to which I promptly added the Envoy and Black Market decks I picked up last month. That now makes at le[...]Read on >>
Wait! Don’t Optimize Your Character!
I have many opinions, but not necessarily the smarts to keep them to myself. This might be one of those times… My current 4E character is not optimized. He is a “controller” type of class, but is not [...]Read on >>
D&D Worldbuilding Week, Part III: History
This post is third in a series on creating a “homebrew” setting for a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Readers seeking to review the series in order may wish to review Part I and Part II before continuing her[...]Read on >>
My Year in Gamemastering 2009
Libri VidicosBy my calculations we've only had two sessions skipped this year for Libri Vidicos, which means we've had 24 sessions this year. We started out this year still a little bit into the first half of their PCs s[...]Read on >>
Happy New Year!
The family and I will be spending New Year’s Eve and Day with friends (gamer friends, of course), and won’t return until tomorrow evening. Here’s hoping for a brave New Year to all, full of adventures both real an[...]Read on >>
too many good games is a helluva problem
So I'm trying to put together a list of games I want to sign up for at next month's Winter War. To try and wrap my head around the options I put together this spreadsheet of games that interest me in the various time slo[...]Read on >>
Obligatory Top Ten Posts Of 2009 At The Savage AfterWorld
I use Google Analytics to keep tabs on this blog's hits as well as what entries were most popular/useful to the readers. (By the way, The Savage AfterWorld welcomed its 3,000th unique visitor last night!) Anyway, "Year I[...]Read on >>
Best and worst of 2009
At the end of 2009, I have taken a few moments out of the family holidays to summarize the year. Tomorrow I will post my vision for the new one. Here we go. Worst all categories – Outlaw Press Thinking back on 2009, n[...]Read on >>
Organizing Game Nights with Facebook
With other bloggers posting their thoughts on 2009, and their resolutions and predictions for 2010 a theme I see a lot of people mentioning is how hard they find it to get a regular gaming group together. I’ve see[...]Read on >>
[Thundarr Thursday] Ancient Armory: The Black Pearl
The Black Pearl is an Ancient artifact capable of deadening the powers of wizards, sorcerers, and other magic wielders. It appears as a fist-sized glossy black sphere with no markings, openings, switches, or dials. Anyon[...]Read on >>
Review: Corners of the Realm: The Myrddin by Fahrenheit Gaming
“No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise!” ~ Lewis Carroll One of the great things about Dungeons & Dragons is its adaptability to almost any adventure environment. Whether you’re campaign is set in a m[...]Read on >>
Chatty’s Year 2009 and the Importance of the Tribe
Yes, Yet another Year End Post. I’m sure the RPGbloggers network’s first page must crumble under that Echo Chamber effect. But I don’t quite care about that. The Year in Review Oh man what a year.[...]Read on >>
Player Absences, Part 2 of 3: “Puff of Logic” and “Spock Mode”
Last post was concerned with the primary ‘play’ or ‘not play’ decision surrounding player absences. Once you’ve decided to play, you need a strategy. The simplest adjustment is to simply[...]Read on >>
Eye of the Demon (part II)
I wrote up the Eye of the Demon a few days ago, and a couple of comments on that post led me to write more about it. The Eye of the Demon is no singular artifact, rather it is one of many such Eyes, each cast forth by t[...]Read on >>
Armour: Its important, but not required
In Piecemeal armour functions by giving you a Damage Reduction score (DR), allowing you to take less damage per die from each blow. As Piecemeal is based on the concept of choices not problems, armour is not universally [...]Read on >>
DMing/GMing in the Abstract
First of all, I better get this outta the way—HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Alright, now down to the important shizzy.. role-playing. Important to Note: These are some blogs or sites that have really aided me in my quest to refin[...]Read on >>
Greatest Hits 2009: Should Players Suffer When PCs Die?
While the Dungeon’s Master team enjoys some well-deserved vacation time, we’re breaking out the greatest hits and shining a spotlight on a few of our favourite articles from 2009. We’ve searched for hidden gems tha[...]Read on >>
Happy New Years Elthos!
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January Plans
As MMIX draws to a close, we must prepare for January and the New Year. Wikipedia provides this information: January is named after Janus (Ianuarius), the god of the doorway; the name has its beginnings in Roman myth[...]Read on >>
Savage Words of Wisdom: Let it Be.
So, I’ve been gushing Savage Worlds fanboyism as of late. I’m totally digging the rules, and I am convinced that with enough elbow grease the rules are a perfect spring board to run just about anything you ca[...]Read on >>
RPG Blog 2’s Year-End Thoughts
Well, here we are, the last day of 2009. I won’t go into my resolutions for the year to come, and I’ve already mentioned my Picks of 2009, so I thought I’d just end things with a few thoughts.It was an uneven year[...]Read on >>
Gleam Shard- 4E Monster
Gleam ShardGleam shards are small splinters of the massive crystal found at the blurred edge between the Abyss and the Elemental Chaos. They are 3 feet long crystalline structures and shift coloring every few seconds, hu[...]Read on >>
The Hidden Key: Resolutions as a window to personality
This will be an unusually brief post, inspired by Johnn’s reprise of his hits-and-misses when it came to his 2009 resolutions, which you can read here, and by the fact that this post will appear on New Year’[...]Read on >>
Everybody gets a prize.
Sure rolling dice and pretending to be elves is supposed to be all fun and games, but does the whole experience really need to be both entertaining and fair to all the players involved? Is it more fair to award treasure [...]Read on >>
Everybody gets a prize.
Sure rolling dice and pretending to be elves is supposed to be all fun and games, but does the whole experience really need to be both entertaining and fair to all the players involved? Is it more fair to award treasure [...]Read on >>
Hunter Journal – Day 2
Things went wrong almost as soon as I stopped writing last night. We were going to try and sleep in shifts, god knows we needed the rest. Big Rab was on the first shift although I didn’t get any sleep. There was a [...]Read on >>
Happy New Year
New Year’s Eve is upon us and as last year I have invited my gaming group to try out a new game. This time we are going to play “Trail of Cthulhu” by Pelgrane Press. This is actually the first time I am running a g[...]Read on >>
The Horny Bard doesn’t represent us!
Just watched The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. I know it been out for a while but it popped up on Netflix. I was laughing pretty much all the way through. Not exactly high art but a lot of fun to watch.See you behind the barr[...]Read on >>
The Tome Ep 123: Matt James Advice
I am joined in this episode by Matt James to talk about what he’s doing in the D&D world, as well as building a Shadar-Kai Swordmage and giving advice on how to start a new campaign. Sponsors: Pick of the Epis[...]Read on >>
Adopt-a-Soldier Update: Q&A With Matt James
Thanks to everyone who entered the Adopt-a-Soldier Holiday Contest and to the many others who helped spread the word. Your efforts doubled the number of Adopt-a-Soldier sponsorships in less than a month—so if you’[...]Read on >>
Secondary Purposes, or Why E-Books Can’t Replace a Library
It started with my boss worrying about the future of the library as a viable structure again. It’s not the first time, it won’t be the last, and I’m pretty sure the fear is unfounded, but it got me[...]Read on >>
Death Statistics in D&D
I’m slowly making my way through my Dragon Magazine CD and am continuously fascinated by the odd articles that appeared in the early issues of Dragon. Take a look at this excerpt from an article entitled “I[...]Read on >>
To all aspiring rpg designers:
What I'm about to say, I say not as someone who's some kind of industry veteran (I could technically call myself a professional game designer, but even that's stretching it). But there's a pitfall I stumbled into a few y[...]Read on >>
There’s a reason our game is set in an original wacky fantasy land, and not in any attempt to recreate an actual historical era.
Members of the public who find themselves curious about those chat games I'm always rambling on about shall note that Trollsmyth has written up a second State of the Campaign covering both in honor of the end of the year[...]Read on >>
The Year Behind & The Year Ahead
The Year BehindThe PleasantI gamed quite a bit and I am very happy about that. I managed to play D&D 3.5, AD&D 1e, Labyrinth Lord and Werewolf: the Apocalypse. I really like the people I currently game with and l[...]Read on >>
Collateral 28 – Do You Want To Publish Or Be Published?
Collateral is a production of the Accidental Survivors. The title music was Oxygenated by Mindscape Music available at RPG Now. Collateral 28 - Do You Want To Publish Or Be Published LinksPrevious "b[...]Read on >>
Games Diner posts in 2009
Looking back on a year in which I didn't think I posted much, I see that my output actually wasn't that bad! A review for those who missed the excitement: New GURPS rules articles The "Rules Nugget" series of small, sim[...]Read on >>
By God, It’s Time to Go Back to Hommlet!
The Village of Hommlet was the first Module I ever DM’ed. I think it’s the first adventure I DM’ed, but I don’t quite recall. I was writing my own stuff, right off the bat and there’s a good possibility that[...]Read on >>
Wherein I attempt to play D&D with Cleverbot
I've fallen in love with Cleverbot, which is totally awesome! Let's play D&D with it! You are in a 10' wide corridor. It stinks of mildew and rot, there is a flickering light up ahead. What do you do? How does mathe[...]Read on >>
Ninsei’s Secret Diaries – Legion Edition
December 31, 2009 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, L5R, Legend of the Five Rings, RPG, RPG Hub, campaign log
Here we have a special excerpt from Ninsei’s Secret Diaries – complicated by the fact that now there are not only the Lunar and Solar-oriented versions of Ninsei, but also a set of dream-duplicates with diff[...] Filed under: Background, L5R, Legend of the Five Rings, RPG, RPG Hub, campaign log
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The Best (and Worst) of 2009
Normally I avoid these thing, since they are nothing but subjective opinion at best and ego-wanking at worst. But 2009 was a good year for RPGs and RPG fandom and I wanted to share my thoughts on that. So yeah. Ego-wanki[...]Read on >>
Uniform Level Progression: Phil Was Here First
Let me start by saying how much I love looking at M.A.R. Barker's 1975 Empire of the Petal Throne. This was a game that I became aware of due to a glowing, though probably incestuous, review in the Dragon magazine. It [...]Read on >>
Strongholds and Henchmen for 4e
One thing which differentiates Classic D&D and Fourth Edition is the fact that the earlier edition supported the idea that our heroes gain power and prestige as a result of their noble deeds. Or ignoble, in the case [...]Read on >>
Monster Manual Savage Encounters Miniatures
D&D publishes its third and final miniatures set of 2009 in the new box format – Monster Manual: Savage Encounters. Ben digs this Monster Manual theme as it reaps an absolute bountiful harvest of miniature goodne[...]Read on >>
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