[Carrion Crown] Character Creation Comes the Inquisitor

After a suitable period of mourning for the prolapsed Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign, the group is embarking on a Pathfinder adventure path called Carrion Crown. Set in the region of Ustalav, I gather it’s fraught [...]
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NeoExodus: A House Divided Campaign Setting

This pdf from Louis Porter Design is 166 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 4 pages ToC, 1 page SRD, 2 pages char-sheet, 2 pages mini-monster-sheets, 1 page condition tracker, 1 page combat & initiati[...]
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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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Jade Regent Chapter 1, The Brinewall Legacy, Session 1

Welcome to the first chapter of our Jade Regent campaign, The Brinewall Legacy! Our neophyte adventurers in Sandpoint are drawn into long-hidden secrets by their friends, relatives, and loved ones, all linked to Sandpoin[...]
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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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Blight of the Khazars

So my Monday night ConstantCon game, the action has for now settled on a horrid little dungeon in Khazakstan.A rumoured mythical dungeon full of riches and power beyond mans wildest dreams! various notable nobles, scound[...]
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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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The Gassy Gnoll: If I Could Save Time in a Bottle… (CONTEST!)

With apologies to Jim Croce: If I could save time in a bottle, I’d drink it up like Mountain Dew, just so I could stay up late every day and continue playing games here with you… **I’m soooo sorry Jim C[...]
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Introducing: Blazing Spear

High time to pull back the curtain, I think.Blazing Spear is the tentative name for an original bronze age weird fantasy setting I and two others have been working on since early 2011. There are numerous influences (from[...]
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Game-time expectations

My previous post about expectation on a game has generated a couple of great comments and got me thinking some more about when joining a posted game, how realistic can I set my expectations? Here are two comments (edited[...]
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Points on a Map: The Oasis of Del Foor Overview

Welcome to Points on a Map! This series aims to offer small, system independent locations that can be dropped into a particular campaign easily and provide a jumping-off-point for side-treks and...Visit the original pos[...]
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playing D&D with mike mornard: henchmen and hirelings

When a spider dropped on my loyal teamster, Pedro, I was on the other side of my mule and too far away to rush to his aid. But, hey, at least the spider hadn't dropped on me. That seems to be the main reason why people h[...]
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Sea Princes: Crew Profiles 4

Avast me hearties! It's time for another pair of profiles from my Hold of the Sea Princes campaign. Last time I introduced the captain and first mate of the NPC companion ship, Osprem's Kiss. Today I'm fea[...]
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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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Puzzle Strike unboxing video

By Paco Garcia Jaen Sirlin Games have made a habit of creating good quality games that play fast, are fun and durable. Puzzle Strike is a non-collectable card game with tons and tons of chips you use to fight your …[...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Twentieth Session

Twentieth Session (18 page pdf) – “From Shore To Sea” – The crew drops into the village of Blackcove to check in on their old buddy Jaren the Jinx. Apparently his jinxiness has gone nuclear as te[...]
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Sea Princes: Crew Profiles 3

Tada! Bonus material from my Sea Princes campaign! Here is a couple NPC profiles from the allied Lordship of the Isles vessel, Osprem's Kiss. I've been sitting on these drawings for a while until I had some of [...]
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What Movies / TV Shows Illustrate Your Game

While writing up blurb to announce afterwork game for coworkers I started a list of movies / shows to give folks a feel for the game.  I kept list a bit old school, cause that's how I roll (haha!). Also see my [...]
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[Solo GPC] 526: A Squire’s Life

For this first installment in the new phase of the campaign, I decided to cheat a little bit. There's a little introductory scenario that comes in the back of the Pendragon core rulebook; I think everyone who's played Pe[...]
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Player Maps

Player maps tend to only resemble the original DM's map vaguely, unless the PCs spend an awful lot of time mapping, rather than exploring. They also tend to include way more notes, as they don't tend to make a key for th[...]
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Sea Princes #20: All Work And No Play…

A week ago, the heroic privateers of the Bird of Prey got acquainted with the curse of Captain Rennaud and the true reason why he seeks the Well of All Heals, and also the female crew (led by Captain "Jet" Cassidy) [...]
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Return to Stonehell

After spending a pleasant evening recovering from his first delve into Stonehell, Nick the Pike hired Randolph the Herald to let it be known that he was looking for a few strong arms to accompany him into the dungeon. 4 [...]
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Eclipse Phase: Breakdown – Session 1 (Flashback)

This past Friday, I got to run my first Eclipse Phase session for my group. I’ve got some thoughts about how it went, which I’ll go into here, but first,... Read more »[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session XXXIX – Gates of the Third Circle

Hala’s little reverie hadn’t taken up much time – although she would like to know what caste her bondmate was… After twenty thousand years there was no easy way to find out much about who’d had your exa[...]
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Kingmaker: The Road from Restov

Number of Views :440 My Kingmaker Pathfinder campaign began on Saturday. Two players failed to show, so it was Jack, Josh and myself. We were initially thinking we’d just talk about the campaign, but I was begged i[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session XXXVIII – Out of the Umbra

Sadly, despite Mr Montagues calling them in, the Nocturnals hadn’t been able to help out with the analysis much; there was just no way of knowing what WAS “normal” for a young primordial! Nobody even knew how they [...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 138: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 2

Our adventure entitled “A Sort of Homecoming” continues, adventure fans! It’s as if Maelbrathyr were singing to the Broken Promise crew, “Stay with me … just a little bit longer … please please please please[...]
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Alternity “The Lighthouse” Session Summary 57 – Campaign Finale!

Fifty-Seventh Session - It’s time to end this. We get some reinforcements from Old Space, and decide to lure the External fleet to Bluefall and wipe their bitch asses out in one fell swoop. Does it work? Who dies? Wan[...]
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First Foray Into Stonehell

The Bumpkin's Squire was getting quickly out of control. Drak the Hood had arrived a short while ago, already drunk, and likely experiencing the highs of some sort of mind altering substance. At the bar Medwin the former[...]
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UnderDiscussion 65: Quarriors Actual Play

This week on UnderDiscussion we officially upgrade frequent guest Hooligan into the third host of UnderDiscussion, and what better way to do that than with an actual play of one of the best games of 2011: Quarriors! Slac[...]
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The Slaughter at the Ruin Sea

First, a litany of the dead.This is the roll of adventurers who were cut down on the shores of the Ruin Sea by viking raven men with cold axes and no mercy for the dying. Merrik, Ranger Prince of Dark HelmBlimm Holl[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 14 – Nobody Expects the Rokugani Inquisition! (Long)

This session was the last one of Year 2 Spring Arc for Never a Dull Blade, and from the way it looks, was thematically tied in to three major investigations across several mysteries.  After the mess caused by the Tsuno [...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Nineteenth Session

Nineteenth Session (27 page pdf) – “A Pirate’s Life For Me” – More time at sea; the crew gets into the pirate spirit and wavecrawls the hell out of the region. Vikings! Whales! Dead Vikings![...]
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Pathfinder RPG – Play Report Two by Rvelasco

There was much delay on the second session, and most of it is because of real-life reasons.  First, we changed sites.  Since the original site was rather noisy, a player suggested to game on his own house.  While I am[...]
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Thunderspire Session 6 part 2

This session was played on 1/7.Cory ran:Dietrich the Human KnightAnder the Halfling RogueAlex ran:Barakas the Tiefling WarlordChan Lee the Human MonkThe death of the demonic gnoll freed the slaves from the ritual, and th[...]
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Sea Princes #19: Nurses and Curses

I'm still a week behind on these sessions. I hope my memory is fresh and my notes are good. When last we saw the adventurous members of the Bird of Prey, they had just defeated two orc pirate ships near the Pomarj with t[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXVII – Investigating Charles Mansen

Over the next several weeks there was much frantic Sidereal scrambling to fit surveillance on Charles in between their usual duties – and immense amounts of frustration with the results of that surveillance. It was[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 137: A Sort of Homecoming, Part 1

We’re back, adventure fans, with a new adventure in the Stormhaven campaign! Please listen now to episode 137, presenting “A Sort of Homecoming, Part 1,” or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. In this epi[...]
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Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Season Two, Eighteenth Session

Eighteenth Session (12 page pdf) – “The Fishwife’s Lament” – The motley crew of the Teeth of Araska heads to sea, and immediately decides that they are on a search and destroy mission for ev[...]
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[Solo GPC] A Winter Interlude

Photo by Antony SpencerThis is an account of what turned out to be Meleri's last session as a full-time PC. I had an adventure prepared for this year as usual, but what turned out happening was an all-roleplaying session[...]
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Getting The Party Started

As a GM, there are few things I hate more upon starting a new game than the mess that inevitably arises from getting a load of PCs, who may not have anything at all to do with one another, into a vague semblance of a coh[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXVI – Titanic Misperceptions

A couple of weeks after Mr. Clearwater and Cipher Child had visited Charles – and about the same amount of time before the Bureau of Heaven would be announcing the results (someone HAD to be expediting that) there [...]
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Wilderness Mini-Regions

Campaign prep continues. We've broadened our horizons a bit, giving us a world with a lot of wilderness organized into small-ish (7x7 hex) regions that are basically wilderness geomorphs. The world is an eclectically mag[...]
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Just like riding a bike

Finally got my game on this weekend and had some great fun.  I DMed a group of three using OSRIC/1e rules through a modified version of Keep on the Borderlands.  So far the group has hired some mercenary muscle[...]
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[L5R - Never a Dull Blade] Actual Play 12 & 13 – New Year, Old Problems

After a lengthy hiatus due to the Holiday Season, the group is back for the Legend of the Five Rings campaign.  When we last left off the team had been busy trying to get the Town of Two Rivers back into shape. Years of[...]
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Thunderspire Session 6 part 1

This session was played on 1/7.Cory ran:Dietrich the Human KnightAnder the Halfling RogueAlex ran:Barakas the Tiefling WarlordChan Lee the Human MonkThe shadow dragon was dead, and the doors to the Well of Shadow’s Inn[...]
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Blackpowder Weapons in Greyhawk Part 2

Welcome back! For those just tuning in, go back and check this link to read my last manifesto on why blackpowder weapons belong in Greyhawk. Before I continue I'd like to add one more reference I overlooked, th[...]
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The Echo Of Events To Come: foreshadowing in a campaign structure

The Campain Structure series: Back To Basics Part 1: Adventure Structures Back To Basics Part 2: Campaign Structures Back To Basics Part 3: Example: The White Tower Back To Basics Part 4: Example: The Belt Of Terra In my[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XXXIV – Fiduciary Divine

While Charles was busily building more manses to impersonate (or perhaps become) his “third-circle souls”, working on the Stargate project, mapping the earth’s dragon lines, running rescue missions, and otherwise k[...]
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[Pathfinder Campaign] Session One by Rvelasco

A bit of a long post.  Sorries for that.  I also included some notes for those curious on the details on some NPCs and mechanics. The game begins in a flashback.  (The intention of this mini adventure is to have every[...]
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