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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sea Princes #18: Dangerous Diversions

Sorry for the delay. The following is a summary of two short game sessions. Last we saw the crew of the Sea Prince vessel, Bird of Prey, they were still in the Onnwalian captial of Scant looking for the sage Lockard Meek[...]
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Let Your Campaign Talk to You

My typical progression for a campaign may be little unusual. In the beginning, when the PCs are newly minted 1st level characters that have just been created by their players, I run adventures that don't tie too closely [...]
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Random Encounters Remastered

This pdf from Purple Duck Games is 35 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 4 pages of SRD, leaving 29 pages of content, so let's check them out, shall we? [...]
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The Gassy Gnoll: The Circle of Trust (or The Power of Odd Jobs and Beginnings)

Have you ever noticed how adventurers always seem to get the glamorous jobs and only rarely get the dirty jobs nobody really wants to do? Let’s take a simple example. A new group of PCs gets hired to kill some rats[...]
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The 1 Thing You Should NEVER Ask Your Players

A few years ago, I was fortunate to be part of a kick-ass campaign.  It was based upon The Temple of Elemental Evil, an AD&D adventure so adventurous it needed be labeled as being a... [[ This is a content summary[...]
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Sea Princes #17: Grog and Guns

Sorry for the delay folks, I've had plenty going on with Needfest and all that. Last time we saw the crew of the Bird of Prey they had cleared a wrecked galley of some Drowned Ones and had enough time to search for any l[...]
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Sea Princes #16: Salvaging

Welcome back followers of Greyhawk, to the triumphant return of the Sea Princes Campaign! For a review of the previous 15 episodes and additional material go to the Best of Greyhawkery page. When last we saw the crew of [...]
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News from Around the Net: 09-DEC-2011

I don’t know about you… But as the holidays get closer to closer and my gift shopping doesn’t get done, my blood pressure starts to rise. So imagine my surprise when I started hearing about “Kramp[...]
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Kicking off Campaigns by Keeping Players in the Dark

Joe Bloch's recent thought provoking article on Greyhawk Grognard suggests that the question facing DMs when starting a new campaign is one of information flow.  This may be true in sandbox campaigns but I often fin[...]
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Sea Princes: Crew Profiles 2

Well folks I got good news, it's finally time to raise anchor on the Sea Princes campaign again! Though I didn't get much done during my short hiatus like I hoped, I did manage to come up with character sk[...]
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The Road to Revolution: Tides of Blood

The third part of 0one Games' Road to Revolution campaign Arc is 43 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page advertisement, 1 page SRD and 1 page back cover, l[...]
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Death and Not Dying: The Immortal PC

How to handle the Total Party Kill in D&D and tips on when and how to use resurrection as a solution.[...]
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Adventure Review: Grimm Tales (Fortune’s Fool) by Jay Stratton and Pantheon Press

Have you noticed that fairy tales are taking over again? This fall has seen two new shows – ABC’s Once Upon a Time and NBC’s Grimm. Plus there’s Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman hitti[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: On Magic (or How Easy Solutions Can Spoil Your Game)

Slowly, a group of characters moves through the darkness of a dungeon. Blackness surrounds the PCs, someone stumbles, and the mage whispers “Let there be light.” Two seconds later a bright blue light bursts f[...]
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[Applying Theory] Worldbuilding: Top Ten List for your Game/World/Campaign

MULTI-PLATFORM BLOGGING CHALLENGE!!! Read the post and see the challenge at the bottom. This applies to all rule sets and game systems. THIS MEANS YOU.   It should be no surprise to recurring readers of The Action P[...]
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Interview: Christina Stiles, Lead Designer on Open Design’s Journeys to the West for Midgard

Ahhhh. I love that new project smell, don’t you? When I saw that Open Design was doing a Kickstarter project for their new Midgard project – Journeys to the West: Fantastic Voyages in the Western Ocean –[...]
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The Gassy Gnoll: Thankful for Gleeful Villains (RPG Blog Carnival: Tricks & Traps)

Finally had an opportunity to see Hanna this past weekend, which has a very interesting modern fairy tale (Grimm-style) approach to a revenge fantasy. Though Cate Blanchett did fine as the first fiddle “bad guy,[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: You Are Under Arrest!

How many times have you, as a player or GM, had characters face the long arm of the law? Usually this isn’t a happy meeting, since most characters have (at one time or another) broken the law at some point. Yes, yo[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: Slavery as a Moral Trap

Today I will provoke you with an issue that goes completely below the line of sight of most Game Masters and players. What’s that issue? Slavery. Slavery is common for most fantasy RPG systems. In fact, many fanta[...]
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Sea Princes Campaign: Timeline

Well it seems my Hold of the Sea Princes campaign is going to be starting back up around December so in anticipation of this, I've been going back over my notebooks and remembering alot of the side stuff I wanted to work[...]
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Book Review: Assassin’s Amulet by Michael K. Tumey, Mike Bourke, and Johnn Four from Roleplaying Tips, Part 2

Assassin’s Amulet is too big a book to review in one post, so I’ve split it up. (If you’re looking for the first part, it’s here.) In this installment, we’ll look at some of the high points [...]
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Book Review: Assassin’s Amulet by Michael K. Tumey, Mike Bourke, and Johnn Four from Roleplaying Tips, Part 1

Before I get into the first part of of this review (tune in for part 2 tomorrow!), I have to get a few things out of the way… First a bit of a disclosure, I’ve known Johnn Four since joining the Gamer Lifesty[...]
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News from Around the Net: 04-NOV-2011

I’m going to start my Friday post off with a question… What is gaming to you? And yes, I’m hoping you’ll leave me some feedback in the form of comments on this one… Is it the gathering of fr[...]
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