Deviant Friday – MiaCabrera Edition

Big and bold images today from Eddie Nunez, AKA MiaCabrera. Enjoy!Oh, and this weekend I'm going to get around to making stats for the slaad replacements for Blood & Treasure - the xaoc. Stay tuned.demon by ~MiaCabre[...]
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Friday Knight News – Gaming Edition: 6-APR-2012

Welcome to another installment of weekly link love here at Game Knight Reviews. I managed to go a little overboard collecting links this week since my 5/week posting schedule has gone awry in an attempt to avoid burning [...]
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Camilla, Queen of the Secret Empire

Shouldn't it be empress?Okay - off to a bad start. Today I'm reviewing Camilla, Queen of the Lost Empire, which I found over at the excellent Comic Book Catacombs.Knuten and Caredodo – names to conjure with! We have a [...]
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Crossing Over…Aaaaaaand Coming Back – Bringing A Character Back From Death

Some people say you’re gonna die someday. I got news, you never got to go. – Ted Nugent. Burgess really didn’t feel any pain as the githyanki’s silver blade sliced... Read more »[...]
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A-Z C for Cromwell by Reverend Bizarre

James Raggi IV has mentioned bands he likes here and there (one example is my interview HERE) and I have seen him wearing Reverend Bizarre t-shirt in pictures. I knew the band by name before but my only touch was a low q[...]
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Confession Time: Things Actually DON’T Seem to be Moving Again

I had hoped that after all the house renovation and moving craziness of this last winter that I’d find a space to carve out each week to get back into the swing of designing Old School Hack stuff again but honestly[...]
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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part 8: The Ascendancy Of The Peerage 1978-1979

Only a short post this week, I’m afraid, and half of it is taken up with a reality check on where things stand at this point for readers who may be coming in late. I could have continued, but I would like to start each[...]
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Supplement Review: Hand Drawn Cities: Volume 1 by Alyssa Faden from Torn World

Many times I’ve mentioned my fascination for maps. There’s something about not only gaining perspective about places new and old, but learning from the point of view of the cartographer who drew those maps. W[...]
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Titans, Wrathful and Otherwise

 Based on the previews I was hoping Wrath of the Titans would be a bit better than its predecessor, the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans. Unfortunately, it largely has the virtues and flaws of the first film. It h[...]
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Friday Knight News – Gaming Edition: 30-MAR-2012

First thing I have to say is that I’m sorry this issue is a bit light (but only a little) on content. I’m exhausted after several days at a software conference and I haven’t had time to peruse the usual[...]
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Deviant Friday – Pot-Pori

Today's Deviant Friday post is just a bunch of little items I've favorited over the last couple of months ... no connection other than, for one reason or another, I dig' em. Enjoy and check out all of these folk's portfo[...]
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Happy Blog-O-Versary to Me! + FLAILSNAILs comes to NOD

Image is property of Wizards of the Coast, the darlingsFour very simple items today.First - it's my second blog-o-versary! I've had a ball with this blog and, I think, created something useful to the RPG community at lar[...]
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With The Right Seasoning: Beyond Simple Names

Welcome to “part 3a” of this series on names and naming things – and finding the right choice. Today’s post was actually intended to be part of the previous entry in the series, but the subjects o[...]
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Game Review: Nights of the Crusades by MJ Alishah from Aetheric Dreams

Occasionally I get the opportunity to review something that is at once both familiar and completely new. There’s nothing wrong with variations on a theme, but it’s nice to see a fresh take on roleplaying that[...]
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The Gassy Gnoll: Getting Lost in a Game…

This week the Gassy Gnoll is away from home in an unfamiliar territory speaking in tongues with wizards of lightning and thought… (Just a fancy way of saying he’s at a software developer’s conference ta[...]
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Magic Wands for Sale, Magic Powers Included.

This past weekend Kelly Anne, myself and our kids went to Washington DC for a minivacation with my sister. We visited the Capitol, recommend the congressional staff led tour, the Cherry Trees, and the Museum of Natural H[...]
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50 ways to kill a zombie

The Zombie Apocalypse has come. Here are 50 ways of dealing with the undead, flesh eating menace in your neighborhood. Some are arguably more effective than others, but one should always keep one’s options open in [...]
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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part 7: Disintegration And Repair 1973-75

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns. All images used to illustrate this article are p[...]
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Dungeon Games

Like a whole lot of other people in America, I caught The Hunger Games this weekend. I’ve never read the book--I actually kind of avoided it as a young adult, Running Man/Battle Royale ripoff. Apparently, I was a littl[...]
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Creighton’s Corner: What’s A Campaign Anyway?

Last time we talked about taking a moment to think about what you and your players want to get out of a game. Armed with this knowledge, the GM can start to think about what kind of campaign to actually run. A campaign c[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: Oh peaceful village, oh village of joy…

Today I want to share some thoughts about playing with PCs in a single location. Most fantasy adventures and campaigns are designed as a never-ending journey & quest pursuit. There are only a few RPGs (that I know) [...]
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Deviant Friday – Metal Snail Edition

The mysterious artiste known as MetalSnail and/or Vindaloovian draws what Carcosa looks like in my admittedly more whimsical/less Lovecraftian horror mind's eye. Love his stuff - check it out and throw out some possible [...]
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Stuck? Roll Some Dice.

Tools of the Trade I’ve been using a lot of accessories for writing and adventure design lately, among my many tools, a few of my favorites have been the Fourthcore Alphabet and the Deck of Many Things from Madnes[...]
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Friday Knight News – Gaming Edition: 23-MAR-2012

Another week buried in Java code. But I did get some gaming in last Sunday thanks to Jason, Mark, Jonathan, Ben, and Ben! Sure, we were stuck in a sewer for the majority of the evening, but hey… it was a very nice [...]
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Snake, Giant Constrictor

Science has validated this scene from Milius's Conan.  Titanoboa cerrejonensis is the largest snake every discovered at up to 50 feet long, 3 feet in diameter at the thickest part of its body, and weighing[...]
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Publisher Interview: Christopher Merwin of BlackStar Games

Back in October 2011, I caught wind of the Shadowlands Epic Fantasy Sci-Fi Mashup project at Kickstarter. When I checked out the project page, I was impressed by the art, the descriptions, and most of all the new approa[...]
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The Gassy Gnoll: Flea Tinted Glasses

The Gassy Gnoll had his yearly flea dip this week and had an odd thought while gagging on the cloud of dust… How does a flea see the world? A shorter life, plus the occasional killer blizzard, frequent earthquakes,[...]
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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part 6: Coming Apart At The Seams – 1960-1972

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns. All images used to illustrate this article are p[...]
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Creighton’s Corner: Know Your Players

So you’re a GM thinking about starting a new campaign. No doubt, you’ve got some cool ideas and are champing at the bit to get started, but how do you know your players will enjoy what you’ve planned? Better yet, w[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: One Bad Hand (Open-ended Adventure Seed)

(Editor’s Note: Robert offers us something a little different this week with an adventure seed that could be used for a modern horror setting…) Sometimes all it takes for a murder is a bad hand of poker…[...]
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Deviant Friday – mc-the-lane Edition

Before the art - if you haven't commented on my post below, please take a look and give me your 2 cents on which monsters who lurk outside the SRD I should include in Blood & Treasure. Now - to the art ...mc-the-lane[...]
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No Assembly Required: Weta Swarm

Welcome to the March 2012 Edition of No Assembly Required, a monthly column that provides DMs with a ready-to-use monster for a Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition campaign. The monster... Read more »[...]
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Friday Knight News, Gaming Edition: 16-MAR-2012

What a week! But on the plus side, tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day! I know this may not mean much to a lot of people, but it’s my second favorite holiday behind Thanksgiving. I not only get to cook (the Crock P[...]
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Darkwood – where everyone has a secret

Secrets: One of the key features I would like to push in the Darkwood setting is that everyone old enough to know anything, probably harbors a myriad of secrets. Basically, secrets are a way of life for people in the [...]
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Freelancer Interview: Adam Roy

Over the last few months we’ve twice had an opportunity to learn a bit more about Christina Stiles, the lead designer on Open Design’s Journeys to the West project, as well as learning more about the project[...]
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From the Attic: Janon News Report #1

Tim of Gothridge Manor co-DMed a couple of campaigns with me in the late nineties. One of the things he did well was supply "color" as the campaign progressed. One of them was in the form of news bulletins posted by a ba[...]
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The Darkwood – an introduction

What is the Darkwood?: Darkwood: where the realm of man is the meager locations he takes back from both the forest and the night. Darkwood: where the things that go bump in the night are predators of man. Darkwood: where[...]
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Adventure Seed Fiction: The Nevada Pestilence

The Nevada Pestilence by Stu Venable Part I Personal Journal  of John Haunt  November 1872 Some time ago, I was told by the conductor, a tall gaunt man with graying beard and mustache, that we passed through the Utah [...]
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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency Part 5: The Cold War Begins – 1945-1959

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns. All images used to illustrate this article are p[...]
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Cities of the Red Martian Night

Drop the swords (or maybe keep the swords) and add a little spy pot-boiler paranoia enhanced by heavy use of strange drugs and you can get a Barsoom as envisioned by William S. Burroughs rather than Edgar Rice. Brackett�[...]
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Make a Reality Check (Guest Post by Andrew Armstrong of Dawnforged Entertainment)

There is a trap we often find ourselves in as human beings, and this trap takes an all too familiar image: A person, in a chair, staring at a computer screen, browser open to email or Facebook, anxiously awaiting the nex[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: High School… Horror!

Today I’d like to share some adventure ideas with you. Something that might even inspire you to run a modern horror adventure in… high school. Last weekend I missed writing a Saturday column (Sorry, Fitz!) be[...]
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Friday Knight News – Gaming Edition: 9-MAR-2012

Do you hear that? That’s the sound of Friday finally arriving! Unfortunately at my house, that also means that the Spring season of soccer is gonig to start and I’m going to be spending lots of time on a socc[...]
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The Gassy Gnoll: Social Networking and RPG Blogs

It’s time to mix things up a little, so this week the Gassy Gnoll wants to talk about social networking. And no, we’re not talking about Gnollbook or Merc’dIn, though I’m sure the conversation mig[...]
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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part 4: An Empire At War 1910-1945

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns. All images used to illustrate this article are p[...]
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Game Review: The Shotgun Diaries: A Zombie Survival Roleplaying Game by John Wick

Yes, The Shotgun Diaries is an older game, written back in 2009. Yes, it’s probably been reviewed a hundred times before. But I’ve had it in my queue for a while and decided to check it out. At a mere 16 page[...]
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Welcome Me to the Sandbox

I’m not usually a sandbox-style DM, but darn it, I am now.   I wouldn’t call what I do railroading, either, so much as tailored storytelling. Railroading implies that I have a story, it’s my story, you’re go[...]
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The Devastated City Crawl

The idea of “city as dungeon” in the sense of exploring a city is well-established. But what if a city looked more like the ruins or dungeons that fantasy adventurers are more commonly crawling through?History (and s[...]
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DIY Digital D&D (Guest Post by Angela Taylor)

Computers make D&D a whole lot smoother, but if you don’t want to pay through the nose every month for D&D Insider, you’ll have to do some preparation on your own. Here are a few must-have tools for DIY D&#[...]
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Deviant Friday – M Breitweiser Edition

Breitweiser brings a classic style to super heroes that is not derivative, or if it is derivative draws on many different illustrators and draftsmen. He is also one of those modern artists who don't feel driven to "moder[...]
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