Fringes of Khorvaire, Session 3

The third session of Fringes of Khorvaire was a mini-session more than anything else. Just a social encounter with Qolleb, the leader of a band of treasure hunting orcish freelancers. In all honesty, this really served a[...]
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[TotalCon 2010] The Unexplained: Spirits Among the Ruins

This, regrettably, is where Saturday unraveled for me. Back when I preregistered, I hadn’t considered the effect of scheduling three investigation-heavy role-playing games in a row. It got rather tedious to go thro[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 105 – The Chill of the Night

   So, they’d been traveling across Necropolis to reach Necropolis. Bloody confusing of the realm’s discoverers to simply give the place the name of the first city they’d arrived in there.    OK, it was hard to[...]
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Races of Eden: The Athirua

The Athirua set the standard for physical perfection that all of Adel aspires to, their beauty said to transcend even that of the Spirits. Throughout the history of Eden the scattered Athirua were whispered of as artifac[...]
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Blowing in to Beregost

We left the Friendly Arm Inn the next morning and headed south for Nashkel. All the talk at the inn of bandits on the road had everyone on edge, but eight hours of travel passed without a single encounter. I urged everyo[...]
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It’s Called Tabletop Gaming Not “Rebooting My Laptop” Gaming

Watching my fellow players and their fixation with technology in the past months has got me thinking quite a bit about the place of technology at the gaming table. They use their iPhones to store their character stats, r[...]
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Newbies, Glorantha, and Magic

It was Alter Ego’s weekly club night on Tuesday. They’re the Helsinki University RPG club, one of the two RPG clubs I hang out with (it’s not that one club isn’t enough for my geekiness, it’[...]
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Lost in Space

In scifi, even if you can travel between planets, systems and stars, space is huge. Even if you can travel long distances relatively fast, it doesn't take away the fact, that space is infinite. Even if humanity has found[...]
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The Hidden Cure of Teziir

Characters: Cheynar, Illdric, JadeBlade, Janora, Torvic NPCs: Theo Miltan Synopsis: At the Smelted Horse, Janora gathers together several transplants of the Adventurers Guild of Threshold. The ranger has used her [...]
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The Westgate Extraction – The Tower

Characters: Alyssic, Aramir, Forkbeard, Sentalial, Trizoon,NPCs: NoneSynopsis: With the office level silent, the Defenders of the Dragon Coast stand in the Tower of Westgate facing two flights of stairs. There is some m[...]
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Stock Characters In Your RPGs

My NPCs never die. This is not to say that they are invincible. They can surely be reduced to 0 HP and never seen again in that particular game. But that only gives them new life, a life beyond the confines of any single[...]
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For Those Of You Playing Along At Home

The question’s been raised as to precisely which books I’ll be using for our upcoming Traveller campaign. The following are what’s being counted on as of now.Traveller Core Rulebook OR Pocket Rulebook (Mongoose Pub[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 3

   Here we have another player log submission for the Star Wars game. As always, such submissions are worth bonus experience points. – in this case, of course, for Kira Keldav.    We returned to the planet of [...]
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Chapter 17, Part 1 "The Acid and Radiation Storm"

The Adventurers:Buzz Brazelhach - Womanizing Australian Fightin' BlokeCorporal Radar O'Reiley - Naive Earth Boy Rocket SoldierDickie Dee - Bone Man Sorcerer Junkie"Doctor Death" - Mutant SorcererJedediah - 1850s Hayseed [...]
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Chapter 16, Part 2 "The Arrogant Sorcerer and the Smirking Guard"

Part I Here.The next day Buzz Brazelhach sets out into Canyx with two goals: To meet with the Baron of Canyx to discuss his collection of guns; and to hustle up some female companionship.The guards at the Baron's Manor e[...]
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Gaming With Significant Others: An Addendum or My Response to Having the Lightning Train Swallowed By An Elemental

So far, so good has been my motto.  My husband and I have been gaming partners for going on 3 years with no incidents.  He’s often the DM or GM and I never feel singled out, either for positive rewards or harsh p[...]
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(3.5) The Company of the Combustable Commode Pt 3

So, as I stated in the first post, the summary is pretty much how this long running group got their name.  It’s been, probably, the best D&D campaign I’ve ever run and the first game in general in my yea[...]
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Weekend Breakdown

Blimey, I had a busy weekend of gaming and gaming-related activity. In particular order — that is, chronologically sorted and neatly placed in nested lists — this weekend, I: Carb and protein and fat and oil[...]
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(3.5) The Company of the Combustable Commode Pt 2

The bard’s presence, of course, served as a distraction for the rest of the taproom and very few people took notice of a small group of adventurers coming in from the cold. A Dwarf was in the lead and upon hearing [...]
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Black Rose, Part 2

Continuing on one of the things I need to figure out is how Ravenloft and Aldea come together.  This is a two parter really.  I need to figure out game-wise how the fit; is Aldea pulled into Ravenloft, is Raven[...]
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Enter Traveller

I can count on one hand the number of Total Party Kills I've had as a Game Master over the years. Friday night, I almost added one to that number.I won't go into all the gory details, save it to say the group rolled two[...]
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Can There Be A Perfect Roleplaying Game?

One of the struggles my gaming groups have gone through ever since I started playing was finding ‘the perfect game’. We always seemed to be in search of a game that has the perfect setting and perfect system for our [...]
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Genegrafting, Genetic Engineering, and Anthropomorphics in d20, Part II

   Avian – and Chiropteran (Bat) – genegrafts, anthropomorphs, and hybrids, are possible under the game rules. More practically, however, they’re mostly undesirable, at least in comparison to other select[...]
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An Example of How Shorter Games are Cinematic Games: A New Hope

So, previously I mentioned how only having a couple hours a week to game makes things more cinematic (aka, like a movie). For proof, I offer up A New Hope. We’ll cover the first couple sessions, then fill out the r[...]
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Playing it right

Well, I have hit a stone wall (or is that a duracrete wall?) in regards to the Star Wars Saga Theatres of War campaign. It’s been flagging for more than a while now, I was starting to worry and then I heard back f[...]
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Ask The GMs: Penetrating the veil of mystery

Why are mysteries so hard? Campaign Mastery was asked, I’m making a Hero System 5.5 campaign for some of my friends. I wanted to do a non-power game that was mystery based. First session went off fine, and I [...]
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A Visit to the Land of Imagination

Good morning, I hope everyone’s Sunday is going well. Today, we’re taking a little tour of the Land of Imagination, where we’ll take a look at some of the retro and cool toys, put out by Fisher Price’s Imaginex[...]
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Rob Conley’s Awesome Map

For the Middle Isles campaign that I've been working intermittently on, Rob Conley was awesome enough to take my crappy map here:And turn it into something like this:Needless to say, I am ecstatic--the res is much higher[...]
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Chapter 16, Part 1 "Certain Essential Salts"

The Adventurers:Buzz Brazelhach - Womanizing Australian Fightin' BlokeCorporal Radar O'Reiley - Naive Earth Boy Rocket SoldierDickie Dee - Bone Man Sorcerer JunkieJedediah - 1850s Hayseed Southerner Fightin' ManJek-Mor -[...]
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Where do you game at?

When we first started gaming in our current home, I would set up one card table to DM from, one to put my battle-map on and everyone else would sit on the couches and use TV trays. This set-up worked just fine, except it[...]
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Tim’s Campaign – Session 4 Podcast

The druid Blindheart has been tainted by a black crystal and after the group destroys it he is released from its power. [...]
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Mapping Methodology Update

I now have a 'player map' for the surrounds of the Keep. I have given this to the players and said this is what they can see from the lookout towers at the keep. Note that I have brushed out all the numbered encounters t[...]
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The Characterisation Puzzle: The Thumbnail Method

This is technique number 1 for getting inside your character’s heads. It’s something I was taught in a Graphic Design course that I completed back in 1992 – so here we are 18 years later, and it’[...]
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Star Wars: Episode 3, Session 2

   Here we have another player-prospective segment of campaign log for the Star Wars game. It’s always revealing to compare two different player logs for the same session… In any case, like pretty much any game[...]
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[TotalCon 2010] Call of Cthulhu: Curse of the Betrothed

Call of Cthulhu beckoned me on Saturday morning. It’s one of those games that inspires as many different interpretations as there have been of Lovecraft’s mythos in general. Pulp adventure with tommy guns and[...]
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The opening crawl, the perfect campaign intro

As a Level 1 GM, I have not had the opportunity for much table time as a player. So I think I have witnessed three campaign intros at the most in-person, two done by experienced people. Everyone basically had the same so[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session Two

   Here we have one character’s view of the events of the second Star Wars session with only one small edit.    After coming to the surface at the end of the second day, we took stock of the situation.  I wan[...]
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Sir Arden Hardane

   Here we have the background for one of the early, playtest, Eclipse characters – in this case a young nobleman from a vaguely Arthurian world who possessed a modest (and quite acceptable) healing talent –[...]
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Our Next Campaign: Alternity

For our next campaign, we’re going Sci-Fi. We’ll be using the Alternity ruleset. Written by Bill Slavicsek and Richard Baker it was published by TSR in 1998, it had a short but bright life. There’s stuf[...]
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Review: Kingdom Builder Generator Pack

Chaotic Shiny is well-known for its many generators, so a product like this is long awaited. While opening up a web browser is not exactly inconvenient, having a bunch of generators in one place is a lot better an option[...]
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(3.5) The Company of the Combustable Commode Pt 1

So, earlier, I made mention that I had plans to revive my old, long standing 3.5 campaign that went on hiatus several years ago.  In preperation for this undertaking, I began fishing through my old notes today, trying t[...]
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Races of Eden: The Iomadi

At the twilight of humanity, another race rose to take their place. The Iomadi were the most fertile and prosperous of the new races, and now have the largest population in the world. Most of any crowd one looks at will [...]
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Mapping Outdoors: What’s the best way?

I have worked the original module B2-Keep on the Borderlands, into my group's D&D3.5 game. The party are trying to find the lair of a White Dragon, which is ravaging the lands and cities held by their patron, Lord Le[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 104b – The Loco Parentis

   The outfitters simply decreed her to be eighteen, to have inherited a lot of money from her now-deceased parents, and that she had custody of her adopted younger brother. It wasn’t like he couldn’t keep up with [...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 104a – Explosive Investigations

   Ruth headed for to Pops office. She REALLY had to find out more about “Kevin” – even if that wasn’t much of a name for a false god! She half expected Kevin’s pantheon to be a bunch of teenage g[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 103b – Malignant Operations

   Brenner was quite glad that he’d decided to condition the crew. Otherwise they never would have agreed to sail off the edge of a world… Even for him it was a shock as the ship changed around him, picking up [...]
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Virgin DM Monologues: A Tale of Two Suspects and Five Unlikely Pirates

Did you know that warforged can come down with lycanthropy? Neither did we.[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 103a – Dr Brenner Unleashed

   Over in the Linear Realms, Dr Brenner was stretching the limits of his organization… He didn’t want to try and move too far up the existing syndicate chain of command, or he’d risk losing control – b[...]
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Ask The GMs: Essential Game Master Skills

What are the essential skills of a GM? Loz is a frequent contributor to the comments here at CM. So when he submitted a question to Ask The GMs, we were inclined to pay close attention. Here’s what he had to [...]
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Stonehell: the Joys of Megadungeons

We had a very good session with the kids exploring Stonehell last night, and it was gratifying to see that one of the primary features of a megadungeon that you return to again and again has started to p[...]
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