Reminder! Enter the international Savage Worlds give away by tomorrow!

To celebrate another wonderful game system, Savage Worlds, we've gotten together with the fine folks at Pinnacle Entertainment Group to give away a few Savage Worlds books. Since the PEG folks graciously provided the Sa[...]
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Dark Sun- Pathfinder’d

First, sorry for being absent all last week. I was away back in my native Montana hanging with my folks and friends imbibing large amounts of good Montana Micro Brews, howling at the moon, and sleeping with my cousins.. [...]
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Random Generation: Interview With Chaotic Shiny’s Hannah Lipsky

Readers of this site know I'm absolutely crazy about random generation, tables, and charts in role playing games--I love 'em, and think they're tremendous fun. Today, I have an interview with Hannah Lipsky of Chaotic Sh[...]
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5 Reasons Why You Should Check Out Fudge

For some reason Fudge, the roleplaying game by Steffan O’Sullivan back in the nineties, is something like the unloved uncle to the popular FATE system. A lot of gamers have heard about FATE, especially after Evil Hat r[...]
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[V:tM] One Nosferatu haven

My haven  My haven is a little detached house just outside town. Subway goes near so it's easy for me to go to city when ever I need to, as I don't have a car or even a license to drive one. Not that the lincense is[...]
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V:tM Nosefratu character. Q&A

These questions are from V:tM corebook. This chronicle has ended already, but I decided to post this Q&A part of the character creation. Character is not mine, but player's of mine.How old are you?I was Embraced in t[...]
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Incongruent Future Web Supplement 1

Perhaps you don’t read enough Axe Cop. Maybe you grew up without a Nintendo. It might even be possible that you never watched Shark Week on the discovery channel, sitting in awe at the killmaximal might of Mother N[...]
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GURPS Ghostbusters: Pumpkin Jack Update

The Carnage submission deadline passed by while I was on hiatus. Due to scheduling concerns and other demands on my time, including taking on more duties as a convention staffer this year, I decided to scale back on runn[...]
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Encounter Critical webring

This is the closest thing you'll ever see to an official webring for the bestest game that was never written in the 70's but should have been.Official EC webpageEncounter Critical message board type thing - chock fu[...]
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Fantasy Craft Giveaway!

To celebrate yesterdays’ release of the PDF version of “Time of High Adventure” by Crafty Games, we give away one copy of the Fantasy Craft 2nd printing PDF today! As with all our PDF giveaways in the past, you nee[...]
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Ebon Knight #1 (p. 12)

Introduction: Playing a Comic Book the Mythic GMEPrevious Scene: Page 11PANEL 1Ebon Knight struggles to his knees while the broken form of Sylvia lies in a puddle of noxious chemicals. The faintly glowing green liquid bu[...]
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Loot And Encumbrance

In the process of writing an RPG that at its core wants to support dungeon-looting play more than is usual, the idea of encumbrance plays an important part. In older editions of D&D, the particulars of how you are go[...]
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Risus Tease

S. John Ross, the revered creator of Risus, recently posted submission guidelines for authors wanting to publish official Risus supplements. Since that time, I had been wondering when somebody would take a stab at it. We[...]
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Superheroes

I am planning on doing a series of posts next on Superhero RPGs, focusing on some new ones I have picked up with some retrospective of some older ones.I have spoken at length about Mutants & Masterminds, my[...]
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Rogue Trader Campaign Inspirations V – Cowboy Bebop

This post differs from the rest of my campaign inspiration posts, because, though I would I really like to run a Rogue Trader game with a Bebop feel to it, I felt that this was something that would not carry across well [...]
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Book Of The Month: The Mark Of Nerath

It's somehow appropriate that the first original novel set in the default Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition setting, The Mark Of Nerath, is penned by Bill Slavicsek, Director of R&D for Dungeons & Dragons and Bo[...]
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Review: Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book and Heroes of Magnamund

I still have very fond memories of the Lone Wolf game books I lent from my friend Sven back when we were still in school. The Lone Wolf books focus on the world of Magnamund, where  the forces of good and evil fighting [...]
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No More Dragon Warriors?

Courtesy of theRPGsite, it sounds like the Dragon Warriors RPG has reached the end of the line. Apparently, the company holding the rights to Dragon Warriors wanted an increase in royalties somewhere in line of 1250%. [...]
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When the player fails, the story wins.

I've been thinking a lot lately about some of the basic assumptions of a role-playing gaming. The thing that's sticking in my craw is character failure. There are some really great GM and game mechanic reactions out ther[...]
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Who Rocks Your Gaming Table?

On the Risus List, S. John Ross asked: “who do you want to see writing worldbooks and adventures for Risus? Maybe it’s someone I haven’t heard enough about, and maybe I’ll track ‘em down and attempt to throw ad[...]
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Geomorph #82

Today's geomorph is inspired by a family outing to Perils of the Lost Jungle mini golf. Talk about a sweet time! The whole course has this campy 1930's era adventure theme with a classic pulp hazard at every hole. My boy[...]
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Fourth Ed – Questions, Questions, Questions…

Say, for sake of an argument, I do decide to go down this 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons route, I still have some concerns and questions I'd like to share with the rest of the blogosphere...(1) Time: As has been note[...]
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Rogue Trader Campaign Inspiration IV – Syndicate

My first CD-ROM drive, bought during the mid-90s, came bundled together with 4 games: Ultima 8: Pagan, SimCity 2000, Wing Commander 2 and Syndicate. I spent hours fighting Kilrathi, battling titans, building arcologies a[...]
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Knights of the Astral Sea Session Log #8

Continuing the adventures of Genevieve Lamballe and the crew of Fair Leonore in their quest to find the rightful heir to the Britannic throne. With this report (written by James DiBenedetto), we are n[...]
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Free Public Beta: Synapse RPG

Greg Christopher is looking for some feedback on the free Public Beta of his Synapse RPG. If you want to check it out and possibly provide some constructive criticism on his hard work, it could be a fun project. Here's[...]
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Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 03 Episode 13

Season 03 Episode 13 Your hosts: Stu, CADave, Gammon, Merril and Casey We discuss listener email and talk about Savage Worlds some more. Featured Song: “The Parting Glass” by Celtic Squall.[...]
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My Life And Roleplaying: “I’d Rather Be Killing Monsters…”

HeroPress gaming fun may be brought to you by the number "4" and the letter "e" in the near future.I'm looking to share this belated-bandwagon-jumping goodness with The Tuesday Knights next year (once I am confident that[...]
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L5R JRTB Campaign Report 18

Scorpion Surprise This interlude took place the earliest of the three, shortly after Soshi Utami gets back to Scorpion lands in late Summer and finds her commission as a Gunso in the 7th Bayushi Legion activated and she [...]
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Ebon Knight #1 (p. 11)

Introduction: Playing a Comic Book the Mythic GMEPrevious Scene: Page 10PANEL 1Four large gangsters come charging into the room with Tommy guns blasting. Thug #1 (from the first pages of the issue) remains at the doorway[...]
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[L5R 4e] Actual Play – Session 4 Report

And yet again I’m starting to see a trend.  I’m currently down with a cold, and that may have affected my performance this weekend. This week was the start of the Winter Court, where the players are all gath[...]
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Star Wars: Saga Edition

As I mentioned in this post, I’ve been looking to pick up and run some sci-fi games. The two I’ve focused on are d20 Modern and Star Wars: Saga Edition. I know, they’re both based on the d20 ruleset, bu[...]
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My Gamer ADD

These days, typically in snippets of 5-10 minutes, I find myself reading the following RPG materials: · Various Call of Cthulhu materials (parts of the core book, various adventures, bits from the Dreamlands). [...]
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Goatees and Black Trench coats

I never put much thought to gamer fashion. At least here in California, it tends to be the same stuff you see anywhere on the streets – t-shirts and jeans or shorts. Sometime in the late 90’s I noticed a strange fas[...]
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Calling all Barbarians : A review of Shadow, Sword, & Spell

To close out Rogue Games week, we are going to look at Shadow, Sword, & Spell (SSnS). SSnS is the latest release from Rogue Games and is described as a humanistic, pulp fantasy games. Which is a nice way to say, no n[...]
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[L5R] Switching Gears: Winter Court

Tomorrow is when I run L5R again.  The past three games have been focused on showing the state of the Phoenix from a peasants point of view, along with the excesses and injustices that they have to live through.  With [...]
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The International Savage Worlds contest: Win the Explorer’s Edition and Deadlands Player’s Guide!

To celebrate another wonderful game system, Savage Worlds, we've gotten together with the fine folks at Pinnacle Entertainment Group to give away a few Savage Worlds books. Since the PEG folks graciously provided the S[...]
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Geomorph #81

I still hope to start a series of urban geomorphs at some point but I keep waffling on which approach to use. In the meantime, here's another geomorph from the underground city that I mentioned in Geomorph #77 (compatibl[...]
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Check out these WR&M reviews!

Recently a few more reviews of WR&M have been released. The first has been written by Ina Vegt of the “Tales of the Swampwitch’s Adventures” blog. Some while ago she already reviewed the 4-paged version of the [...]
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Rogue Trader Campaign Inspirations III – Mass Effect

If I had to create a ranked list of my favourite CRPGs, the Mass Effect series would definitely find itself somewhere in the top 10. Considering that I’ve recently played the 2nd installment (after replaying the fi[...]
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There is no spoon … eh … OSR

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to prove that there’s no renewed interest in older editions of D&D and other games, but I want to share my thoughts on the perception of that phenomenon. Recently there was some[...]
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My Take on the FGG Swords & Wizardry Cover Controversy, Cave Map & Blasphemous Bestiary Request

So some folks aren't taken with the cover artwork for the upcoming Swords & Wizardry complete edition being released by Frog God Games. See Here, and Here. Now, I absolutely adore Peter Mullen's artwork and his cov[...]
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Ebon Knight #1 (p. 10)

Introduction: Playing a Comic Book the Mythic GMEPrevious Scene: Page 9PANEL 1Shot of Sylvia bleeding out on the snow with the open doorway to the warehouse just visible.EBON KNIGHT (not shown): Think, Angus!PANEL 2Angus[...]
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Earthdawn Blog hoody

Some time ago I received a present. and on the back The Earthdawn Blog hoody, isn’t that great? Beside some other unique Earthdawn stuff I possess, this one is amongst the great. If you want...[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 27

   I had taken up a patrol around the Hohenheim Research Facility while we waited for our assassin to come in. Xiang and Jacob were doing their own security tasks like I was and Ben was playing scientist with the resea[...]
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CSotA: New rules set…

Much like Scott at Huge Ruined Pile I may be moving away from S&W to Lamentations of the Flame Princess Weird Fantasy Roleplaying Game as my default system. Why? Two main reasons: 1. His system for thieves is the [...]
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Copper Coins! The RPG

For the past year or so I’ve bemoaned that I didn’t have the time or the drive to write a fantasy RPG. Everyone who writes RPGs seems to write their own fantasy RPG sometime in their lives – it’s that[...]
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Ning’s Cave: Catching Up, Part 1

Wow.  I’m really behind on keeping up with Lankhmar sightings across the ‘net.  I need to catch up, and I don’t want any of these items to slip by.  Perhaps Ning’s twisty passages will allow fo[...]
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Excitement for the Game

I'm not going to comment on what was posted by Frog God Games. I read the apology from Bill Webb on Chgwiz blog and that's good enough for me. I'm not one to hold a grudge, but I do hope FGG can deliver. I am writing [...]
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LEGO Minotarus

I don't talk much about board games here.  Nothing against them, they are just not something I talk a lot about, but I would hazard a guess and say that a full half of my game room shelf space is devoted to board ga[...]
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The one RPG I wholeheartedly recommend to any gamer is …

In my case it’s Savage Worlds. Savage Worlds is a generic roleplaying game that allows you to run games in any genre, the rules are easy to learn but have a certain complexity that will not disappoint more tactically-m[...]
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