TGIF

Its been kind of a crazy week and I for one am very much looking forward to the weekend. Specifically Saturday. I intend on taking it easy...With my last few attempts to get the gang together for a game being somewhat un[...]
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Weekly Mutant Future "Wisdom From The Wastelands" Launches

Skirmisher Publishing LLC has announced the release of Wisdom from the Wastelands, a weekly publication dedicated to providing useful information, game content, and ideas for modern, science fiction, and post-apocalyptic[...]
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News from Around the Net: 3-FEB-2012

February!?! Where’d January go? Geesh! Here in Colorado, the snow started to fly last night and we are in the first real winter storm in 2012. What does that mean for yours truly? Not much really… I work from[...]
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Cubicle 7 Sale at RPGNow/DriveThruRPG

Recently Cubicle 7 has reduced the prices for a lot of their products on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG. You can get the excellent Dark Harvest: Legacy of Frankenstein (read my review here) for mere $10 for example. Other great ga[...]
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Consequence Case Study: Exalted

At the request of Lugh, we’re taking the discussion on consequences a little further today, and taking apart an actual game I’ve run and examined how consequences may have worked (or failed) in the context of[...]
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Expedition Design Diary: Let’s Make Magic (Together)

Expedition has a magic system. It’s a little bit more complicated than the rest of the system is, in order to add flavor and variety, but not by all that much. In the last post I generated a character using (prelim[...]
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Review – Threat Report: King Babylon

King Babylon, possessed of nearly godlike powers and a notable lack of self-control is the kind of villain you do not want to have to tangle with but he is just too dangerous to ignore.  A useful character to use as a r[...]
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Doomsday Preppers Premieres February 7

The newest in a recent line of apocalyptic reality shows (Apocalypse Man and The Colony), National Geographic channel brings us Doomsday Preppers, premiering February 7.From the website:Doomsday Preppers explores the liv[...]
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Why "The Math" Should Not Be the Primary Focus of RPG Design

Some people tell me that "The Math" is broken in games I like, play, or design. The thing is, I don't consider "The Math" to be the be all and end all of good game design. "The Math" for a game might be as close to "perf[...]
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A Twist in Time: Alternate Histories in RPGs

The latest iteration of my superhero campaign has just gotten underway. Being set (mostly) on an alternate-history Earth, it holds a number of elements that may be of interest to readers, especially if I explain the thin[...]
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Savage Menagerie: Grindhog

No. Enc.: 1d2 (1d4)Alignment: ChaoticMovement: 90' (30'),Hyperburrowing: 150' (50')Armor Class: 6Hit Dice: 5Attacks: 3 (claw/claw/bite)Damage: 1d8/1d8/1d12Save: F3Morale: 9Hoard Class: NoneThe Grindhog is a vicious enl[...]
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My points of light…

Who knew that former US President George H. W. Bush was a Game Master, and a groundbreaking pioneer at that! He spoke about points of light campaigns in 1989 almost twenty years before D&D 4th edition. What’s that[...]
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Terra Tori Episode Summary

After a rather long delay, we are finally catching up on our Slaying Solomon episode summaries. Up first, is episode 6.5: "Terra Tori", which initially "aired" back in October of 2010! Reading Jodi's write-up, I can only[...]
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This Blog Protected By Wuudchaks!

:::WARNING:::WUUDCHAKS HAVE BEEN SPOTTED IN THE AREA.IF CONFRONTED, DO NOT ENGAGE.PROCEED WITH CAUTION.:::WARNING:::(Happy One-Day-Early Groundhog Day! )[...]
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Penultimate is a pretty cool tool for doing RPG stuff.  I made…

Penultimate is a pretty cool tool for doing RPG stuff.  I made this sample page in just a few minutes, and exported it to my Dropbox so that I could post it here.  It also syncs with Evernote if you like that one.  Th[...]
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Dungeons of Adel: The Hellmouth

One of the Arch-Dungeons of Adel, the Hellmouth is a member of a family of massive, seemingly living spaces that exist beneath each Nation of Adel (and the Abyss Isle and Noshiki), their exact positions shifting, shrinki[...]
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Dungeonslayers: First sneak peek at the 4th Edition

Reports that the English version of Dungeonslayers 4 is vaporware are highly exaggerated. DS 4 is alive and well and Christian Kennig has released the updated character creation as a teaser today! The 10-paged PDF contai[...]
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Gaming in January 2012

Inspired by Mike, I thought I’d write up a little summary of my gaming related activities for the month. On the boardgames front: January is OxCon month and all of my boardgaming too place there. I gave Civ a try &[...]
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Mutant Mathematics

(A very excited Sniderman)-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-TRANSLATION: I'll be playing in a Metamorphosis Alpha game run by James Ward himself at Gary Con in March. Mutant RPG mayhem run by the guy who invented mutant RPG mayhem? Yeah, I[...]
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I Need Help: An Appeal

The long and short of it, is that I’m in trouble. I’ve hit bottom, and I don’t know what to do. I’ve exhausted all other options. I want to ask for your generosity and empathy. I’m uncomfort[...]
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Link Advice #19

Real Life picture of a Cathay Beastlord Earthdawn: (Almost) Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Actions Black-castle-tent 1, 2 Science-Fiction- and Fantasy writers portraits ...[...]
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[L5R 4e: Never a Dull Blade] Musing on Clan Virtues

The one thing about being able to refer to multiple Actual Play reports is the fact that you can look back and think about how you’re doing.  I’ve been rereading my reports for “Never a Dull Blade̶[...]
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RPGs for Kids: The Savage Peanuts

The Savage Peanuts is a role-playing scenario for kids, in which the players must rescue a boy who has been kidnapped by feral peanut people. I use the term scenario deliberately. This is not an adventure; the story is n[...]
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Port Loren Travel Agency! Star Frontiers Virtual Con 2012

I am a longtime fan of Star Frontiers, I’ve written about it before, and every now I then I visit the fan sites still supporting the game. Imagine my surprise when I discovered this, the Star Frontiers Virtual Con 2012[...]
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So…why aren’t you playing Risus right now?

So…why aren’t you playing Risus right now?[...]
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Questions For Game Designers

Over twitter, Quinn Murphy posted a pool of questions he plans to send to some game designers he admires for small interviews, to inform his own views on game design. His questions are pretty interesting, so I thought I [...]
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Creating and Implementing Technology.

Do you have a piece of equipment you’ve been wanting to add to your game? Well, grab your corebook of choice and we’ll cover four basic considerations for implementing new tech into your game. I’ll be using[...]
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TrollTips #4: 5 ways to get started that aren’t in a tavern.

“You all meet in a tavern…” Ugh! Chances are that you’re probably already groaning. Getting started with an RPG campaign can be fun, but this old trope needs to be retired. Here are 5 alternate wa[...]
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ossuriad

No. Enc.: 0 (1d6) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 120' (40') Armor Class: 5 Hit Dice: 2d8 Attacks: 1 (dagger) Damage: 1d4 Save: M2 Morale: 7 Hoard Class: XIX This macabre faerie tends animal... Click the title if you want[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 15 – Summer Wars

After the events of the Spring season, the team find themselves in a peculiar situation for the Lion Clan.  Conflicts are brewing across the empire, and threats both domestic and foreign are starting to rear their heads[...]
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Leap Month RetroRoleplaying Cancer Fund Drive and Giveaway

Canadian Alexi Debois contacted me a couple of weeks again to see if I would be interested in designing a special Swords & Sorcery edition of Microlite74 and about donating some early D&D items for a Retrorolepla[...]
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The Royalty

The Royalty, our newest supplement is now available for sale. The Royalty is a combination of our Baker's Dozen and our 100s. There's A Baker's Dozen Royal Persons, 100 Noblemen, and 100 Castle Staff. That's 213 NPCs [...]
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The Details of History

I get accused of focusing on the unimportant stuff a lot. You can go back and see my opinion of role-players vs. gold farmers for more on that. A huge part of why I do it is simple - It makes everything else easier!If [...]
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I’ll Be Wearing This At Gary Con & Gen Con…

Planning on running a whole host of Mutant Future at both events this year. Decided to spring for a custom-made shirt to identify myself as "The Mutant Future Guy." Just arrived today (pictured at the right.)I understand[...]
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Champions Defeated…Temporarily

Today is the second time in a row and perhaps the fourth time since the first weekend in Janurary that my players have bailed on me at the last second for our Champions game.End result, Champions is on indefinite hiatus [...]
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Beyond the Quick Primer for Old School Gaming

What is “Old School” Play? If you are interested in old school gaming, you may have read the Quick Primer for Old School Gaming by Matt Finch. It's "a quick introduction to playing Original D&D or Swords & Wi[...]
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Shadowscast – episode 3

This episode touches on four topics. We continue our look at Seoul as a setting, discuss gaming in public, review the excellent service from Noble Knight Games, and take a look at our initial impressions of the Ubiquity [...]
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Microlite74: Swords & Sorcery Edition Design Begins

The reaction to my recent post on a Microlite74 Edition designed for "Swords & Sorcery" genre play has been very positive. I'm happy to announce that I have started to work on it. So far, work consists on taking a co[...]
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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[...]
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Old School Actual Play Podcast Episode 6 – Back in the bowl

Episode 6 – Back in the bowl Wow! It’s been quite some time since we’ve gotten a new episode up. That’s the bad news. The good news is we have this one here now, and two more in the can waiting to[...]
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What Do Skills Do, Again?

Ever since D&D added non-weapon proficiencies to AD&D, skills have been a staple of pretty much every RPG out there. From 3rd Edition's somewhat bloated list of skills to FATE's highly customizable ski[...]
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Willow & Tara: World of Darkness (old)

I have been going over a ton of my old books and looking at what I want to keep, what I want to give to my kids and what I want to get rid of.  I cam across some old World of Darkness stuff the other day and I am no[...]
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They don’t sparkle, period!

I know I am late to the party, the Vampire the Masquerade 20th anniversary celebration was last year. But I did not catch the anniversary bug until this year. My relation with Vampire is a complicated one. I was in colle[...]
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Arkham Horror begats Call of Cthulhu

Being down three players last night (Dan Dan the Power Game Man is overseas for awhile, Little Ben has to take a month or two off suddenly, and Big Ben had a cold), we decided to finally play Paul’s copy of Arkham Horr[...]
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23 Answers

Forgive me readers, but I have been really busy. It's been more than a week since my last post. I'm still really busy but I did want to take a moment and answer the 23 Questions that have been popping up here and there a[...]
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Expedition RPG Design Diary: Where Have You Been, Old Friend?

Hey, Expedition is not dead yet! In fact, I’ve gotten a lot of good work done! (No release date yet, but nearly all the character bits are complete. The GM and Monster sections will, as usual for me, be more compli[...]
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Old School Actual Play podcast to return soon(ish)!

Thanks to the diligent and hard work of Scott, our technical vizier and GM, we’ll have three new episodes of the OSAP podcast coming to you in the somewhat near future.  Scott is diligently editing Episode 6 at th[...]
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Beasts & Barbarians for Savage Worlds

It’s been too long since I touched anything to do with Savage Worlds. It’s no fault of the rules or anything like that. It’s just if I’m tinkering or playing with a game I tend to not thing about [...]
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Interview: Wynter Rouse, CoastCon 35 – The Dark Crab Rises in Biloxi, Mississippi – March 16-18, 2012

As CoastCon gets ready for its 35th annual science fiction and gaming convention in Biloxi, Mississippi on March 16-18, 2012, Wynter Rouse has her hands full. She’s the Charity Liason this year and she’s been[...]
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Microlite74: How about a Swords and Sorcery Edition?

I've been asked if I could make a "Swords ansd Sorcery Edition" of Microlite74 by someone who would be willing to donate a few very nice AD&D items for a Cancer Fund drive. He's asked that a Microlite74: Swords and S[...]
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