Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Edguy – Tears of the Mandrake

September 3, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
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Dice, Dice Baby by MC 117

August 31, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Ok, this is pretty good. Thanks to Dave "the Knave" for this one: Dice Dice Baby by MC 117.[...]
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Mood Music

August 28, 2010 from The Loquacious Coyote
Filed under: GM, Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
The frequency with which I find myself posting is erratic at best, not adhering to any schedule but only when the muse strikes. This is a trait that defines my writing habits in general, in fact. But lightning can appa[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: The Sword – Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians

August 27, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
There has been a lot of post-apocalyptic game talk recently, so this tracked seems very appropriate.   It also makes me think of Beyond the Black Gate's raven lance.Oh, and if you want some "real" post-apo[...]
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Get your free copy of Retrospect RPG

August 26, 2010 from Gaming Brouhaha
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
My entry for RPG Geek’s 24-Hour RPG contest is now available for free download. In case you’re not familiar with the idea, the contest required participants to write a complete RPG from concept to final prod[...]
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Free Nature Sounds – UPDATE

August 21, 2010 from Earthdawn Blog
Filed under: Earthdawn, Music, RPG Hub 
When a gamemaster uses background music and nature sounds in his game he always has to select carefully to make sure that the background sounds fit the situation he describes. At Naturesoundsfor.me...[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Elvenking – A Riddle of Stars

August 20, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
I know I already made a post today, but this song is too great not to share.[...]
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"Cursed" Treasure Emerging From Play

August 12, 2010 from Planet Algol
Filed under: Actual Play, Music, RPG Hub 
No, this isn't about that -2 cursed backbiting hayfork or transgendering girdle, but about treasure that acquires a "cursed" nature due to the greed, betrayal, misfortune and death that it engenders. There have been a co[...]
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Dungeons & DJs: the Black Spur series from Sonic Legends

July 26, 2010 from Icosahedrophilia
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews 
I’ve already made my love for the Sonic Legends line of RPG soundscapes well known here on Icosahedrophilia and on DriveThruRPG. Six of Sonic Legends’ initial wave of offerings were inspired by and keyed to t[...]
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San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Thursday and w00tstock 2.4

July 24, 2010 from Critical Hits
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub, news 
"Spark of Imagination" panel, The Red vs. Blue Infiltration, Robert Kirkman, and a guest-filled wootstock.[...]
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Dungeons & DJs: Sonic Legends July 2010 releases

July 24, 2010 from Icosahedrophilia
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews 
Each installment of the “Dungeons & DJs” series presents you with a new collection of music—usually, a single, complete album—that you might find useful at your gaming table. This installment focuses [...]
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I Feel a Song Coming On…

July 24, 2010 from The Player's Side
Filed under: Character, Music, RPG Hub, roleplaying 
Well, ladies and gents, looks like I finally found time to get around to this post...and it's a somewhat unusual take on character development. I've noticed that one thing that some people do is to find a theme song for [...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys (Part 1 of 2)

July 23, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Iced Earth – The Hunter

July 16, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
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Good stories need good endings

July 12, 2010 from Level 1 GM
Filed under: GM, Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Star Wars 
Though one of my GM mentors recommended the “never-ending campaign” that has no ending, I rather like endings to be honest. It comes from liking the ending of stories, though not the fact that they end, as it[...]
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Turn Me On, Dead Man

July 12, 2010 from Held Action
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
Paul was supposed to die, not John. In the original history, Paul’s death in 1966 catalyzed the surviving Beatles’ transformation into something completely unlike their History B replacements. The Beatles-A n[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Gamma Ray – Heart of the Unicorn

July 9, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
You wouldn't think you could make a kick arse song about a unicorn.  You'd be wrong.[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 77: Enter the Dragon, Part 4

June 29, 2010 from Icosahedrophilia
Filed under: D&D 4e, Music, Play, RPG, RPG Hub, podcast 
Our last episode threw the PCs a twist, adventure fans, with the unexpected appearance of a brown dragon! In this episode, number 77, we continue our adventure “Enter the Dragon,” which we recorded on January[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Hammerfall: Bloodbound

June 25, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Love this track.   By the way, I received a ton of suggestions last week.  Please keep them coming![...]
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La La La

June 22, 2010 from Justin Achilli
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
tweetmeme_url = 'http://jachilli.squarespace.com/blog/2010/6/21/la-la-la.html'; New music here for you. The opening and closing bits are from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, but aside from that, it's...   Ci[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Nightwish: Sleeping Sun

June 18, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Enjoy.[...]
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Who Wouldn’t Want A Serving Of Cram Schmuggery?

June 15, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub, podcast 
A long-time HeroPress reader with an impressive CV of roleplaying game design (including one of my favourite unplayed systems, Red Dwarf) has, in the past week or so, started both a new blog and a podcast.Both are entitl[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Lee Aaron – Metal Queen

June 11, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Really, I do have substantive posts coming. In the mean time, let's return to some classic 80s "hot chick-fronted metal band" cheese.[...]
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DriveThruRPG reviews for May 30–June 5, 2010

June 11, 2010 from Icosahedrophilia
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews 
During week of May 30–June 5, 2010, I reviewed the following products for DriveThruRPG: Dwarven City by Randin Graves for Sonic Legends. “Dwarven City” is another good offering from Randin Graves, who also [...]
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The Week In Geek (third course)…

June 7, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Call of Cthulhu, Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Star Wars 
A final round-up for the day of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) Star Wars Zombie Bust: Gentle Giant has produced its first zombie storm trooper mini-bust to tie in to the Star Wars horror tale Death Troo[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Nightwish – Amaranth

June 4, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
More posts in progress.... until then, proceed to rock out.[...]
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Gaming In A Field

June 4, 2010 from 6d6Fireball
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
This weekend’s experiment of gaming at a music festival was a great success. We fitted in a couple of good RPG sessions (including one for the 6d6 RPG) and several pick-up games. Plus we watched lots of live music,[...]
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The Links They Will Not Cease

June 1, 2010 from Age of Ravens
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
Working on a Campaign Postmortem of the Star Wars game, a look at my objectives and how those played out. But for today I'd like to point out some interesting links (rpg and otherwise). So, yes, linkdump. *Halfjack over [...]
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New Erdenstern album in the works

May 31, 2010 from Stargazer's World
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
If you have been following Stargazer’s World for some time now, you probably already read a few reviews of music suitable for roleplaying sessions. Aside from various soundtracks there are a few musicians who are creat[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Sirenia – The Other Side

May 28, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Enjoy.[...]
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6d6 RPG: A New Field of Gaming

May 27, 2010 from 6d6Fireball
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
The 6d6 RPG is about to explore a new field in gaming, literally. Over the weekend I will be in a field at the Off the Tracks music festival with The Savage Island adventure and some gamers. I doubt we will be the first [...]
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A traditional song of the Nomads and Freemen of the Western Badlands

May 22, 2010 from Planet Algol
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
Kharvil Vrayn is the name, and I rode on the Verdant Plain Til all the war machines came and ruined all the grain In the year of Widows' Cries, we were hungry, we were barely alive I took the road to Yexyd that fell It w[...]
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Traditional song of the Nomads and Freemen of the Western Badlands

May 21, 2010 from Planet Algol
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
Kharvil Vrayn is the name, and I rode on the Verdant Plain Til all the war machines came and ruined all the grain In the year of Widows' Cries, we were hungry, we were barely alive I took the road to Yexyd that fell It w[...]
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Man on the Silver Mountain

May 21, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
I've decided to start my own Lazy Friday Post thing and since I have an appreciation for fantasy-themed metal, I'm going to post those kind of videos.I picked "Man on the Silver Mountain" as my nod at Dio's passing (RIP)[...]
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Another Legend Lost

May 18, 2010 from The Frothy Friar
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
We lost another legend on Sunday May 16th.Ronnie James Dio passed away from stomach cancer at 7:45am.While I know not everyone will know who Dio is and some may not care, I'm a huge fan of that little ball of awesomeness[...]
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Tabletop RPGs and Music: The Beautiful Thieves

May 11, 2010 from Critical Hits
Filed under: Inspiration, Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Every RPGer struggles to make their game special. No one wants to run a forgettable, generic game. In my opinion, music can very easily fuel ideas for unique campaign settings, adventure, or character concepts.[...]
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DriveThruRPG reviews for April 4–10, 2010

May 9, 2010 from Icosahedrophilia
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Reviews 
During the week of April 4–10, 2010, I reviewed the following products for DriveThruRPG: Quartermaster Campaign Items by Louis Porter, Jr. Design. “Quartermaster Campaign Items” offers very fine illustrati[...]
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Chuck Versus The Playlist

May 4, 2010 from Creatively Anomalous
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
Posted via web from will hopkins’ posterous [...]
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Sometimes… Everybody ROCKS

April 30, 2010 from The Dungeoneering Dad
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Part of the reason I love 80s hard rock and heavy metal is because those genres embrace all that is good and geeky about D&D:  Magic and swords; heroics and hot chicks.  This music appeals to me in the same[...]
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Midnight Syndicate and Nox Arcana

March 26, 2010 from The Frothy Friar
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
I was just reading a post over at The Realm of Dungeons & Dragons about music and lighting during a game and I had to post about two groups of musicians that will add atmosphere to any game (or Halloween party)I've b[...]
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“I Hit It With My Axe”

March 17, 2010 from Troll and Flame
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
Stop reading this and go watch I Hit It With My Axe.The Escapist Magazine in it's infinite wisdom and awesomeness has launched a 52 episode weekly "reality" (as in unscripted which modern Reality TV is far from, more of [...]
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The Week In Geek…

March 15, 2010 from HeroPress
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds 
A round-up of geeky news you might have otherwise missed...(1) The Vorpal Blade Went Snicker-Snack: Timed perfectly to coincide with Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, Skirmisher Publishing has released an OGL roleplaying[...]
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Earthdawn Soundtracks

March 12, 2010 from Earthdawn Blog
Filed under: Earthdawn, Music, RPG Hub 
Today I want to introduce a German Earthdawn page that offers some treasures. I first thought about to simply add it to the Link Advice, but it deserves much more than a simple mentioning in the...[...]
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Take My Car For A Spin Around The Block

March 9, 2010 from Destination Unknown
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
somewhat WoD related...My players and I are discussing the idea of sharing the mantle of Storyteller in our Changeling: The Lost chronicle. I think it might be a lot of fun to see what can be done with the campaign in th[...]
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I Don’t Know Anything

March 6, 2010 from Destination Unknown
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
Those poor fools. Playing in the Forgotten Realms at the height of TSR's Silver Age. Dolts! I went to bed reading GURPS 4e last night. When I got burned out on AD&D 2e I played GURPS 3e revised and thought I'd found [...]
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The opening crawl, the perfect campaign intro

March 5, 2010 from Level 1 GM
Filed under: Campaign, Music, RPG, RPG Hub, Star Wars 
As a Level 1 GM, I have not had the opportunity for much table time as a player. So I think I have witnessed three campaign intros at the most in-person, two done by experienced people. Everyone basically had the same so[...]
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Social Combat

March 5, 2010 from Destination Unknown
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub, World of Darkness 
social combat in actionIn regards to story telling systems, a poster at RPG.net wrote, "Why do I want to spend several sessions engaging in nothing but social combat? That's what I do all day at work!"I had a nice chuckl[...]
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Barding it up around town

March 2, 2010 from Mike's D&D Blog
Filed under: 4e, Music, RPG Hub 
I’ve always thought Bards made cool characters in books, but implemented horribly in roleplaying (and most computer) games. The 4e PHB2 introduce a Bard class that doesn’t suck. We’ve had a Bard in my r[...]
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Do You Love the Fighter? Prepare to Love Him More!

February 24, 2010 from The Labyrinth
Filed under: Music, RPG, RPG Hub 
"I ignore all the signs of impending danger, because I'm a Fighter and not some crappy Ranger!" For years the fighter has been under appreciated! When the Mage got his own theme song I couldn't help but wonder when t[...]
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Editing the WoD Fan Project

February 24, 2010 from Destination Unknown
Filed under: Music, RPG Hub 
I'm doing the final edits on my 40 page booklet, which contains a bunch of NPCs from my WoD chronicle. I figure that people can drop them into their own stories or perhaps convert them to a system of their own choosing. [...]
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