Federation-Apocalypse Session 106b – Down on the Pharm

   Back in Kadia, Mr Gelman had dark circles under his eyes again. Sending Thralls to look after Ruth was weighing on his conscience – even if they were sending regular reports and were doing the odd rescue missi[...]
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[Solo GPC] 497: The Battle of Du Plain Castle

If you're familiar with the geography of Salisbury, the title of this year's update should clue you in right away to the events that would unfold during our latest Pendragon session. The Anarchy Phase arrived on Sir Herr[...]
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The Shield of Ferelden #3

It has been a while since we got opportunity to gather around the gaming table, but still we managed quite quickly to continue our Dragon Age: The Shield of Ferelden Campaign. Today’s session was third time we play[...]
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International Traditional Gaming Week Is Go

This game is definitely going forward. I’ve got four players — one so eager he showed up at the host’s house last night, rather than this coming Friday — a module in mind, Greyhawk Grognard’[...]
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Is online play relevant to the hobby?

I am in the precarious position that I am criticized for “coming up with imaginary enemies” who only allegedly criticize me, because they don’t really exist. But I am also criticized for other things, b[...]
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Perdition Prison Break

I paused with my fingers on the keyboard and glanced at Maggie. She was looking at me. <Chui Se.> I thought to myself. I didn’t kill anyone. The things we heard in the chamber, the secrets reveal[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Return to Alderaan

   Well, it looks like if I survive the next few days, I may very well be heading back to Alderaan after being gone for eight months. It feels like another lifetime ago. Thinking about the others back home does make me[...]
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The Characterisation Puzzle: The First Decision

If you’ve been following this series from the beginning, then you are now equipped with three new techniques for character development, all of which are useful when for some reason you’re struggling to find [...]
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The Characterisation Puzzle: The Window Shopping Technique

New techniques for getting under a character’s skin don’t come along every day; the techniques described earlier in this series have been my standard weapons for such tasks for the last two decades. So, when[...]
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Hard Core Gamers

In case you have been living under a rock all week, the new video version of the hit blog Playing D&D with Porn Stars is out now.Called "I Hit it With My Axe" it features, well, porn stars, playing D&D.   It[...]
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[TotalCon 2010] Crashing a Conference at Wewelsburg

Crashing a Conference at Wewelsburg wasn’t part of my original game plan for TotalCon. I’m not sure what I intended to do Sunday morning instead. Maybe just kick around the hotel and read a book, or spend a d[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 4

   Here we have one of the player’s perspectives on the fourth Star Wars session. We’ve already had the basic notes, but it’s always nice to see the players making a contribution – and the differences in pr[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 106a – Tombs, Pyramids, and Liches, Oh My.

   The quasi-Egyptian or -Mayan realm posed no immediate dangers – which meant that it was time to go through and try a magical gate. As reported, stepping through the gateway led to a stone chamber, built of mon[...]
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Fall – Episode 21 “Reaching my Limits, Part 2″

For the past two weeks, since our epic session, I’ve been trying to write this actual play report on Fall. I’ve found it extremely hard, as it was a dark and difficult road that my Slayer started down. I̵[...]
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The Eden Creation Myth

All Adelians agree upon one outstanding creation story and its underlying metaphysical details. While minor interpretations may disagree, and among the many religions the role of a certain deity or another may be detaile[...]
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Its not easy being Alpha

Back in January, I was invited to join a gaming group starting up a new “pack” in Werewolf: The Apocalypse. I knew the Storyteller (Jarvis) and one of the players (John) pretty well and had met the other players (Dev[...]
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Lord Padraig throws a party

This session featured roleplay over combat as I set some hooks for future adventures. I had also offered the opportunity to change PCs at this point in light of the recent addition of a new player. Ben was the only one w[...]
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Video Wednesdays: Oh You Pretty Grognards

We now take a break from our ongoing multi-part look at Player’s Handbook 3 for Video Wednesdays. “Daddy, what’s a THAC0?” Tagged: d&d, dming, video [...]
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day! Everybody’s Irish! Yes, even you.

Obligatory holiday greetings, everyone. While you are getting drunk on green beer and full up with corned beef and cabbage, I am writing feverishly on my games. Progress has been slow and painful and I have nothing aki[...]
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d20 – Alchemical Magic

   Alchemical Magic is a branch of hedge magic – magic that relies on talismans, rituals, and exotic ingredients, rather than raw power. In general, would-be alchemical magi may buy their magic both Specialized ([...]
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Star Wars Session IV

   For the convenience of those players doing character-viewpoint writeups, here’s a basic summary of session four…    Session four started off with the party divided:    Kira, Khadim, and 10-CH had sta[...]
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A Quick Roundup

I have a bunch of ideas in the pipeline, but not a whole lot of time and/or motivation recently to get them written up. Instead, here’s a quick update of some of the things that have been going on. Can’t have everyon[...]
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[Solo GPC] 496: Anarchy in the U.K.

And so we enter the Anarchy Phase.Unlike most other phase transitions in the GPC, the Anarchy Phase doesn't mark any major shift in technology, social mores, fashion, or much of anything, really. A note is made at the be[...]
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A Game of 40K

Pictures of a game of 40K against my wife.  I was playing Eldar, she was playing Necrons. I’ve decided I really don’t like that wraithlord’s color scheme.  The red on his hands and feet make him look [...]
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Gears of Ruin: The Phantom Rails, Part 3

There they learned of a pact made between the Gith seeking to eradicate the Elemental Chaos influence on the world of Sikarra and Melora's Eco fanatics who were unable to channel the power of their Nature god to avenge t[...]
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Tortured Secrets

There was heavy jolt, then Imago’s voice in my ear, “Wake up Ms. Brigid, we’ve landed.”  The light coming in the opening doors was bright in my eyes.  As my vision adjusted, I realized it was coming from some d[...]
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Crosslink Updates

   Continuing with catching up on the indexing, here we have a selection of links to some of the player blogs – and the materials they’ve come up with.    Star Wars d6: Alys Diary: Session II, Session II[...]
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Latest Material Index

   It’s once again time to get the latest material index updated and to transfer the material from the old one to the main index tabs at the top of the page. If you want the very latest material, it may be necessary [...]
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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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The Characterisation Puzzle: The Inversion Principle

The second technique of character development that I call apon when stumped for ideas is something that I call The Inversion Principle. Some parts of this I had worked out many years ago, but it was when I read an inter[...]
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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 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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