Kubo
Through luck and courage, Kubo saved the day and managed to kill the half efreet.[...]Read on >>
Iz
I was listening to Canon Puncture the other day and they talked about the new segments they want to do and started thinking back to the player characters in my games, the ones I remember best. Let me tell you about Iz th[...]Read on >>
Taug (TOOK) Maciver
Vagabond Scottish Tinker with a knack for inventing things out of scraps (4)Former priest seeking redemption (3)Self-sufficient outdoorsman (3)Taug Maciver is a failed priest from Inverness-shire, Scotland who left for A[...]Read on >>
Listen to Your Characters
As a follow up to my previous post, "Let Your Campaign Talk to You", I've been thinking about new ways to approach developing character backgrounds, and looking at various techniques from literature and televis[...]Read on >>
More Elves of the Sea of Stars
On Friday, I looked at the Elves of the Sea of Stars and their politics. Today, we will look at them a bit more in Pathfinder mechanics. In general, the mechanics for the elves as as written for Pathfinder with the fol[...]Read on >>
JiB on GM’ing: Pathfinder Variant Rules, Character Advancement
Our final exploration of the variant rules for Pathfinder found in the Ultimate Combat Guide discusses character advancement, the effect of magic and magic items, and takes a look at creatures and how to convert them to [...]Read on >>
Game Theory – Moral Dilemmas: Arranged Marriages
I was watching the video of Emilie Autumn‘s Marry Me (mildly NSFW for language) and it brought this issue to mind as a possible source of conflict, challenge and adventure. While marriage does not usually figure as[...]Read on >>
JiB on GM’ing: Vigor and Wounds vs Hit Points in Pathfinder
When last we spoke … We were talking about armor as damage reduction in the Pathfinder game. The next part of the variant rules available from the Ultimate Combat Guide involve replacing hit points with a Vi[...]Read on >>
Krampus for Ghosts of Albion
Krampus is an old legend, but one I never heard of growing up. He/It is a reminder that the Christmas legends of today are part a of a larger variety of Winter Solstice celebrations. Krampus, though is intere[...]Read on >>
Zatannurday: RPG DC Heroes (Mayfair)
Given my love for Chill and DC, it should be no surprise then that I also liked the DC Heroes RPG from Mayfair. I did, but it was never a "love" of mine. It was a cool game, just not something I got to play a[...]Read on >>
Willow & Tara: DC Heroes
DC Heroes from Mayfair Games was one of the "Big Games" for me back in the day. One of those games that was like entering into an entire sub-culture, not just a game. You know like old World of Dark[...]Read on >>
Déjà vu: Scaring the Dickens out of Your Players: Ghosts of Albion
Here is my post for the Déjà Vu Blogfest.This post was originally posted on December 19th 2009 and was viewed by what I could tell as many as 9 people since. I felt it deserved another look due to the t[...]Read on >>
Aleshka, scourge of the H’apesh
By Paco Garcia Jaen Recently, at my university course, we had to come up with a character. Any character. Being the sort of person I am, I decided a character didn’t have to… [...]Read on >>
My character and organisation entry for Dragon Raiders
Recently Margaret Weis made a call in her Facebook page for characters and organisation entries for her soon coming out game, Dragon Raiders. It’s well known that I am pretty much in love with the setting and I loved t[...]Read on >>
Learning Curve: Apprentice-level Characters
By Thilo Graf This pdf from Tricky Owlbear Publishing is 13 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1/2 a page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving10 1/2 pages of content for apprentice-level classes. So… [...]Read on >>
The D&D Business; Or The Impossible Art of Trying to Make Everyone Happy
One of my most admired RPG writers and players of all time is Monte Cook. Monte’s understanding of setting, intrigue, balance and the relationship with the player is pretty amazing. His ability to actually come up wit[...]Read on >>
In The Company of Henge: A 1st-20th level Player Character Racial Class
This pdf from Rite Publishing is 26 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 2 pages of SRD, 5 pages of advertisement and 1 page back cover, leaving 15 pages for the Hengeyokai, so let's take a look [...]Read on >>
Player’s Side Vlog: NaNo and Noir
I'm back, with an actual episode this time! I go off on a NaNoWriMo-related tangent, and then review Greg Stolze's "A Dirty World". [...]Read on >>
Awakening: Those Left Behind
November 9, 2011 from Casewerk: More Internet Ravings
Filed under: Character, RPG, RPG Hub, WOD, World of Darkness
(This post focuses on what’s happening to some of the various NPCs in the Awakening chronicle in the time around the end of The Enemy of My Enemy, Chapter I) It had been a bit of a strange day for Joseph Chases-the[...] Filed under: Character, RPG, RPG Hub, WOD, World of Darkness
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Review – Artists, Artisans and Workers: Bold Background Series I
While I deeply appreciate the design goals and ideas in Artists, Artisans and Workers, it could have been better edited both as far as format and, more important, in mechanics. However, if you want to highlight charact[...]Read on >>
New Pathfinder Campaign – Pattern Seekers – The Characters
Since most of my Thursday night group are very into Pathfinder at the moment, I decided to run a short campaign for them in the Sea of Stars. Placing no restrictions on them, as is my want, these are the characters the[...]Read on >>
