The Traps of Names

November 6, 2008 from Exchange of Realities
Filed under: Featured!, RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
Badly chosen names are practically a correllary to Murphy’s Law; if there is a way a name can get mangled, mispronounced, misinterpreted or otherwise stepped on, the audience is going to find it. Haven’t we [...]
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Fantastic Governments

October 20, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
Here I will deal with fantastic forms of government, and the RPG community’s thoughts on it. I would like to focus specifically on the influence magic, psionics, and monstrous races could have on government. Feedba[...]
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Strange Ecology - Wet and Wild

October 17, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
In this series of posts on Strange Ecology, I am introducing various aspects of the ecological nature of particular regions in my campaign setting, Memory Fading. I hope to let you see a little bit about how I make the d[...]
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Strange Ecology - Critters, Critters Everywhere!

October 8, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
In this series of posts on Strange Ecology, I am introducing various aspects of the ecological nature of particular regions in my campaign setting, Memory Fading. I hope to let you see a little bit about how I make the [...]
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Strange Ecology - Even Smaller

October 2, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
In this series of posts on Strange Ecology, I am introducing various aspects of the ecological nature of particular regions in my campaign setting, Memory Fading. I hope to let you see a little bit about how I make the [...]
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On Being Internetless, and Future Turtle Issues

October 1, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
While out of town for a week for a cousin’s wedding (who didn’t have internet), I’ve been thinking of a few different options I want to focus on. I personally am mostly interested in writing articles h[...]
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Strange Ecology - Starting Small

September 22, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
Ever since Exchange of Realities focused on various Ecology For World Builders articles all this past week, I’ve been thinking about how to implement her ideas in my own setting. There is a region of Memory Fading [...]
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Racial Archetypes as Caricatures of Humans

September 18, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: Campaign, RPG Hub, advice, fluff and inspiration 
It seems to me that fantasy races often take on caricaturistic qualities in many (or most) fantasy RPGs. A lot of this comes from the tropes and clichés that have hidden within RPGs for many, many years, but I do belie[...]
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Learning History from Weapons

September 17, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: Campaign, RPG Hub, advice, fluff and inspiration 
I was watching the Lord of the Rings recently on a day off, and something occurred to me. It struck me as interesting that the major treasures of the world often seem more significant for their historical connections tha[...]
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Thaelavan, the Hell Shark

September 15, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
In response to Uncle Bear’s“Dire Shark Week” currently taking place, I decided to up the ante a bit and go with something a little more dire than “dire” (not to mention, this is not poetry, [...]
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The Giant TICK

September 12, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
The Horror! Could anything be worse than a combination of arachnid and vampire? How about an arachnid/vampire amalgamation the size of a large dog?? I submit that literally nothing could be more terribly, and I dare yo[...]
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I Read a Forgotten Realms Series and It Was Actually Good!

September 11, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: Inspiration, RPG Hub, Review, fluff and inspiration 
Let me premise this by saying two things that are important for this. The first is, the reason I (re)-read this series is because I’m doing a bit of research on some possible “from the sea” type threat[...]
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A Deontological Alignment System

September 8, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: 4e, RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
There have been a lot of blogs lately about different forms of alignment. Jack Phillips over at Philosophy of Games has had a good little discussion going on about various forms of morality in gaming. A Hero Twice a Mo[...]
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Culture in Gaming - Part 2

September 2, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
I am still working on my sydhi in my campaign, especially since it seems likely the current group may be venturing into their lands soon, and there are a few more cultural aspects that I need to flesh out. Most of what [...]
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Finding Inspiration in Odd Places

September 1, 2008 from Turtles All the Way Down
Filed under: Inspiration, RPG Hub, fluff and inspiration 
For Christmas last year, my brother bought me the Zombie Survival Guide desktop calendar, which I have dedicatedly read every single day for the last year for fear of being unprepared when the inevitable zombie uprising [...]
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