Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Edguy – Tears of the Mandrake
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Dice, Dice Baby by MC 117
Ok, this is pretty good. Thanks to Dave "the Knave" for this one: Dice Dice Baby by MC 117.[...]Read on >>
Mood Music
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: The Sword – Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians
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[...]Read on >>
Get your free copy of Retrospect RPG
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[...]Read on >>
Free Nature Sounds – UPDATE
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...[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Elvenking – A Riddle of Stars
I know I already made a post today, but this song is too great not to share.[...]Read on >>
"Cursed" Treasure Emerging From Play
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[...]Read on >>
Dungeons & DJs: the Black Spur series from Sonic Legends
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[...]Read on >>
San Diego Comic-Con 2010 Thursday and w00tstock 2.4
"Spark of Imagination" panel, The Red vs. Blue Infiltration, Robert Kirkman, and a guest-filled wootstock.[...]Read on >>
Dungeons & DJs: Sonic Legends July 2010 releases
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 [...]Read on >>
I Feel a Song Coming On…
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 [...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Helloween – Keeper of the Seven Keys (Part 1 of 2)
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Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Iced Earth – The Hunter
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Good stories need good endings
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[...]Read on >>
Turn Me On, Dead Man
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post: Gamma Ray – Heart of the Unicorn
You wouldn't think you could make a kick arse song about a unicorn. You'd be wrong.[...]Read on >>
Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 77: Enter the Dragon, Part 4
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Hammerfall: Bloodbound
Love this track. By the way, I received a ton of suggestions last week. Please keep them coming![...]Read on >>
La La La
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Nightwish: Sleeping Sun
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Who Wouldn’t Want A Serving Of Cram Schmuggery?
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Lee Aaron – Metal Queen
Really, I do have substantive posts coming. In the mean time, let's return to some classic 80s "hot chick-fronted metal band" cheese.[...]Read on >>
DriveThruRPG reviews for May 30–June 5, 2010
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 [...]Read on >>
The Week In Geek (third course)…
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Nightwish – Amaranth
More posts in progress.... until then, proceed to rock out.[...]Read on >>
Gaming In A Field
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,[...]Read on >>
The Links They Will Not Cease
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 [...]Read on >>
New Erdenstern album in the works
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Sirenia – The Other Side
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6d6 RPG: A New Field of Gaming
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 [...]Read on >>
A traditional song of the Nomads and Freemen of the Western Badlands
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[...]Read on >>
Traditional song of the Nomads and Freemen of the Western Badlands
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[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Fantasy Metal Post – Man on the Silver Mountain
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)[...]Read on >>
Another Legend Lost
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[...]Read on >>
Tabletop RPGs and Music: The Beautiful Thieves
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.[...]Read on >>
DriveThruRPG reviews for April 4–10, 2010
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[...]Read on >>
Chuck Versus The Playlist
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Sometimes… Everybody ROCKS
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[...]Read on >>
Midnight Syndicate and Nox Arcana
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[...]Read on >>
“I Hit It With My Axe”
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 [...]Read on >>
The Week In Geek…
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[...]Read on >>
Earthdawn Soundtracks
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...[...]Read on >>
Take My Car For A Spin Around The Block
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[...]Read on >>
I Don’t Know Anything
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 [...]Read on >>
The opening crawl, the perfect campaign intro
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[...]Read on >>
Social Combat
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[...]Read on >>
Barding it up around town
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[...]Read on >>
Do You Love the Fighter? Prepare to Love Him More!
"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[...]Read on >>
Editing the WoD Fan Project
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. [...]Read on >>
