Gnomes
I never really understood the deal with gnomes. Specifically the part where some people exceedingly hate them and others absolutely enjoy them. For me they've always just been "there". I guess that make[...]Read on >>
City Planet
There is something very cool and awe inspiring about a city that spans an entire planet. The concept actually goes way back in Sci Fi literature, so George Lucas’ Coruscant was nothing new. He had actually planned to h[...]Read on >>
Organized Play People: Kitty Curtis, Part 2 [Arcanis]
I know, I know, I've been slacking and you have all been wanting to get part 2 of my chat with Kitty Curtis. It's been well over a month since I posted part 1. Well, here is the continuation of the discussion!JP: What is[...]Read on >>
If Seventies D&D Was A Song…
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Mark Twain’s Birthday
Today is Mark Twain's birthday. He was one of my favorite writers. Here's a few of my favorite quotes."There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator"It is a subj[...]Read on >>
What have I (not) been doing? [Travel, Paizo, NeoExodus]
Been a while since I posted anything and I’m feeling withdrawal pains. So let me give you a number of updates on things I am working on. I spent last week in Phoenix, Arizona at my parents’ winter home, practicing my[...]Read on >>
The Déjà Vu Blogfest
I am going to participate in another Blogfest. But this one is different. On December 16th I am going to repost an older post of my own that I felt didn't get the benefit of a wider audience.You can read all the de[...]Read on >>
On Skill Deconstruction: An Assessment
During these many discussion over skills one misunderstanding occurs more frequently than the rest. I'd like to take a moment to clear it up.I do not hate skills.In fact, I am quite fond of mechanical systems to resolve [...]Read on >>
Notable Nobles – Part the Last
Finally, we come to the last post in the series on noble nicknames, this time with dwarf nobles. I went all out on this one and gave each three nicknames - hey, maybe dwarves like their nicknames.WILDGRAVE OGMUND the Sta[...]Read on >>
The Middle-Aged Vampire
A few weeks ago I attended a swanky cocktail party at the W Hotel in Hollywood. It was a perfectly lovely event. Later, as I waited for the valet to bring the car around, I looked at all the tourists and club goers makin[...]Read on >>
For the Love of the Game
Yikes, tomorrow's December 1st?!?! How the heck has this year gone by so fast? I'm winding down my last set of commissions for the year. I'm almost done inking a piece for Carter over at the Lands of Ara blog. After [...]Read on >>
Preparations Part Two…
A pile of spiffy new editions of the players' introduction to Tekralh arrived (from Lulu) this morning, sporting a delightful picture of a krug (from In The Name Of The King) on the shiny front cover and some miscellaneo[...]Read on >>
Eight months later….still pimpin’
Anyone who has published a RPG product in the last year;The 2nd Annual Three Castles Award is still accepting submissions through the end of the year (December 31st) for next year's award, to be given out at the 4th annu[...]Read on >>
Role Playing 101 #4: Quick and Dirty Adventure Building, part I
Have you ever been stuck, minutes before starting a game session? No ideas where to start? No idea how to do it? Or have you ever wanted to master an adventure, but found yourself procrastinating endlessly? Here are some[...]Read on >>
Gaming In the Enchanted Isles of Avalon Hill’s Wizards (Part 1)
Avalon Hill put out the board-game Wizards in 1982, which would have been a year or two after I started gaming. I have no idea how my Mom decided to get it for me as a Christmas present, but it was probably one of [...]Read on >>
Jim Ward’s World of HORROR
Today's Special Sale item is Jim Ward's TAINTED LANDS. Pick it up today and today only (well I think into tomorrow actually) for 60% OFF. [...]Read on >>
Death and Not Dying: The Immortal PC
How to handle the Total Party Kill in D&D and tips on when and how to use resurrection as a solution.[...]Read on >>
Deadly Harmony: Mounted Terror
The climactic cavalry charge has always been an iconic image in fantasy literature. From the charge of the Rohirrim at Helm’s Deep in The Two Towers to the famous mounted knights of Lastwall in Golarion, the image [...]Read on >>
Demotivational Poster: The Pot of Gold
November 30, 2011 from Vulcan Stev's Database
Filed under: dungeons & dragons, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub
You don’t want to know what the leprechaun is packing. Filed under: Demotivational Posters, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG Tagged: demotivation, Demotivational Poster, Dungeons & Dragons, Fluff/Inspir[...] Filed under: dungeons & dragons, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub
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2007 Christmas Card
Here is our Christmas Card from 2007! Jason Walton once again visited the Trolls. This time we sacked Santa's Sleigh! [...]Read on >>
Old West Map
I was poking around the other day and came across this post on a site called From the Sorcerer's Skull, which was new to me. It had two cool maps, on of Tombstone and one of Deadwood. The Tombstone map is fro[...]Read on >>
Web Clip Wednesday: Walking In Circles: An Epic Tale of Dragons n Stuff
Yes, another good comedy fantasy series. Walking In Circles is the story of our little adventuring band that consists of a barbarian (the responsible leader), a wizard, a bard, a druid and a psychotic rogue. If you liked[...]Read on >>
Creating Effective Fate Aspects
In my experience, the most difficult concept for players to get their heads around is creating aspects. Some are used to playing more traditional roleplaying games and are thrown by not having a fixed and finite list of [...]Read on >>
Greyhawk Reading: Greyhawk Adventures
...Now a reading from the book of Greyhawk Adventures, chapter five, page 91:"In mid-flocktime of CY 198, the Great Kingdom was astounded by a ball of fire which appeared over the Oljatt Sea, passed over Sunndi, Idee, Ah[...]Read on >>
The Road to Canterbury Review: Sinning for fun and profit!
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Wha[...]Read on >>
[Beyond Dragon Age] AGE of Terror: Magic
The way that magic works in the world of Sanctuary has changed between the various Diablo games. In the original game, characters of any class could learn and cast the same spells. In Diablo II and Diablo III, that syste[...]Read on >>
December RPG Blog Carnival – Heroes Living & Dead
In many if not most RPGs, the characters are called upon in one way or another to be heroes. They may not all be heroes we can look up to, or even recognize at first glance as being heroes, but – in the heat of the mom[...]Read on >>
Here Comes The Plot Train! *Choo Choo*
Number of Views :473Everybody climb aboard the Plot Train, it’s time to get railroaded! My group (as it currently stands) loves the Plot Train. I tell them what’s going on, and they just enjoy the ride, letti[...]Read on >>
Preparations…
A sampling of some of the latest figures I've got back this month from Neil at Wilson's Miniatures ahead of next week's Tuesday Knights' gathering to generate characters for my Tekralh (Crypts & Things) campaign.All [...]Read on >>
Hedley Lamarr, High Priest of Evil Chaos
I've been thinking about Raggi's advice (in both the LotFP rpg and the Random Esoteric Creature Generator) that we should use real people more and humanoids less for our cannon fodder. It's a concept that has real&[...]Read on >>
Month in Review: November 2011
November was another great moth at Dungeon’s Master. There was an unintentionally heavy focus on player resources and D&D public play this month, not that there’s anything wrong with the way that worked [...]Read on >>
Your Ultimate Combat Tool – Hero Lab Dataset Review
I’ve talked about Hero Lab from Lone Wolf Studios before, specifically, when I wrote a review of their dataset for Ultimate Magic. I liked the Ultimate Magic dataset, and without spoiling the rest of this review, I[...]Read on >>
Chimera Monster Building
Fast-track your Chimera bestiary Feature or Bug?—The monster list in Chimera Basic is scant. I wanted to include more monsters but in truth, neither space nor available time were on my side. Which is an excuse, not an [...]Read on >>
Vampire Theme (for your character)
I, like many people I’ve spoken to, were disappointed with the new vampire option presented in Heroes of Shadow. It’s not in fault to the mechanics. They feature excellent flavor and a fun balancing act of healing wi[...]Read on >>
Season 3 Episode 20 – Hey We Are A Community!
Welcome to Season 3 Episode 20 of RPG Circus Episode Topics Community Involvement in RPGs Time Keeping In RPG Games Why are there not a lot of Puzzles in Adventures Hosts Jeff Brian Marshall Show Links Menzoberran[...]Read on >>
Games and Learning Dream Tank circle on Google+
Pete Figtree, educator and host of the Ruthless Diastema blogcast, is organizing a think tank to brainstorm ideas for using games to educate. Here's the idea, in Pete's own words:So, I have a few big dreams for gaming (e[...]Read on >>
Faster and More Deadly Combat – New House Rules for D&D 4e
Premise: Monsters and PCs should take about 3-4 hits to reduce to 0 Hit Points with most attacks across all levels. Thus, critical hits, lucky damage rolls, or high damage powers have a decent chance of bloodying or even[...]Read on >>
Frankengame Breakdown, Part 3- Misc Rules
At the beginning of November anarkeith did a post about Frankengaming, which is something I’m a big proponent of. I love hacking games and taking what I like from them. Last week The Sky Full of Dust posted his[...]Read on >>
Power Creep
When you are making a game system, or the expansions for a game system, there is always pressure to make everything worth it. The game/book needs to have a certain impact of cool factor. Has to have some awesome toys or [...]Read on >>
Which superhero must die?
I’m planning a role-playing scenario set in the DC Universe where the heroes (members of the Batman Irregulars) are sent by Batman to investigate the murder of an established superhero. The question is: who should [...]Read on >>
New Map
Rob Conley sent me a few maps for Starter Adventures. This one is for one of the magic-user scenarios. He even drew some rats for me. I started the layout of the sixteen scenarios. That will be the bulk of it.Â[...]Read on >>
A thousand words
Deviantart user zazb made this masterpiece: ...and I have nothing more to say. Except that I promised I'd link to his Deviantart gallery, so that you can enjoy his other works as well.[...]Read on >>
Review: Leverage RPG
I’ve compiled a bunch of G+ posts that I’ve made over the last week or so that form a review of the Leverage RPG. See what you think. Leverage has its own nomenclature for things that, by now, have been ̷[...]Read on >>
My Next Campaign: What Will It Be?
Here we are again. While my current Legend of the Five Rings campaign, Never a Dull Blade is doing well, I’ve started thinking of what might make for a good campaign afterwards. At the rate that I’m going[...]Read on >>
Tales from the Ancient Scroll: Hunters in the Dark
Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a series of adventure ideas written by Robert Oglodzinski of AncientScroll.pl. If you speak Polish or if you are not afraid of using translation software you can find a whole pl[...]Read on >>
The Gassy Gnoll: Book Bloat
November 30, 2011 from Game Knight Reviews
Filed under: 4e, AD&D, design, dungeons & dragons, GM, Inspiration, pathfinder, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
The Gassy Gnoll has come to an odd realization recently. He doesn’t like book bloat. What is “book bloat” you ask? Way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I started playing AD&D 1st edition in 19[...] Filed under: 4e, AD&D, design, dungeons & dragons, GM, Inspiration, pathfinder, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
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Winter is almost here, but December starts tomorrow
December was the tenth month of the Roman calendar but had no particular association for them.  However, December is also a modern month filled with holidays. So, the themes for this month on the Sea of Stars design[...]Read on >>
Wizardly Wednesday
The evil wizard Kelek, from the D&D cartoon. Also available in action figure form.Dig that classic look. Kelek rode around on a dire wolf, which I think is pretty badass.He also had a sweet secret hideout [...]Read on >>
The Chronicles of the Seventh Moon, Session 10
Day 6, Solar Month, 757 years since the Fall of the Gods, early summer Crossing the gate, the Hammers of the Dawn entered a cave of massive scope – actually a hollow mountain. Magic lights illuminated the dark ceil[...]Read on >>
damned city: riccoferro
Riccoferro is built on a hill rising out of the Avernine. An iron mining town, it is split into six fortified zones like a giant spiral stair part carved into the hill leading to the Avernine,... Click the title i[...]Read on >>
