How to Generate New Monsters in Minutes

How to create a new monster in double-quick time.[...]
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Review: Dark Sun Campaign Setting, Part 2: More Player Options

In the first installment of my look at the Dark Sun Campaign Setting, I dug into the new builds provided by the book  for existing classes and the two new races introduced. They’re all pretty cool, but one of the [...]
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Important Fact #3 – At War With the Gods

This setting has a very strong link to the Far Realm, as I have discussed in previous posts; this link is so strong that it is throwing the planes into alarm. As the link between the Far Realm and the material plane is g[...]
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[FS] Pregnant in space – could happen to anyone

When Chiasm met Sarwen and was introduced for the crew of old Vorox spaceship called "Dragon", she little knew how her life would change.Everyone suspected, that Chiasm and outgoing, extrovert, helpful and charming Sarwe[...]
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Important Fact #2 – The Not so Far Realm

I chose to center my campaign in some ways around an ancient apocalypse that is tied heavily to the Far Realm and the entities that reside within it. This is an incredibly important part of this campaign setting may pres[...]
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Important Fact #1 – Technology In Many Forms

The Campaign setting, which has been in development for a quite a while now, several years counting the work I did back on it in 08/09, is now getting very, very close to its first real advenutre. Our first game as a gro[...]
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Featured: The Sweet Spot

Here is something I’ve always wanted to do but for one reason or another have not had the chance: I want to stop the level advancement in a campaign at what I deem the “sweet spot” – the place whe[...]
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A History of the world

The campaign world which I am currently constructing, is currently an unfinished and very wrought setting, but I have begun mapping out some of the basic topography as well as history of the place. Here is a little bit o[...]
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New Campaign!

Starting up a new one tonight. The system is Lamentations of the Flame Princess. The players are all women. One is completely new to roleplaying, another has hung out with roleplayers for a while and played a single sess[...]
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Adventure Hooks for the Aberrant Internet

So, a lot of people might have read the last few posts about the fantasy style Internet that I have been building in the last few entries and wondered to themselves... why? sure, it might be interesting to have in your g[...]
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Review: Dark Sun Campaign Setting, Part 1: New Races & Builds

Call me a disgusting fanboy, but I’m continuously impressed by the improved quality between every succeeding release in the 4th Edition product line. Each new supplement improves upon its predecessor, and it kind o[...]
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Exploring Hive City, the Aberrant Internet

In my previous post, I described the Modum, a race of creatures that bond with other intelligent beings willingly to grant them access to Hive City, a place for communication among intelligent beings. But what exactly i[...]
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Accessing the aberrant internet with chibi mind flayers

Yes, things keep getting weirder and weirder in this discussion, but hopefully today, after a little explanation things might be a little less murky. Last time I mentioned how PC's could access the aberrant Internet of m[...]
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The Aberrant and Normal Internet

In my current attempt at putting a version of the Internet into my D&D game, allowing the player characters to utilize it is a tool in their adventures, it is first necessary to break down and describe what the Inter[...]
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The Internet in my D&D Homebrew Setting

In a recent post, I mentioned that I recently moved back to Japan and have settled in, pretty much in the middle of nowhere, a few hours from Tokyo and an hour or so away from Mt. Fuji. What I failed to make clear is in[...]
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RPG Review: Kingdoms of Kalamar: City Map Folio

As a GM, it’s nearly impossible to get by without a few maps. Sure, you can come up with a village on the fly, or maybe a 5-room dungeon, but cities are sometimes tough to design at the drop of a hat. Not only are [...]
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Looking Forward to New Core D&D Novels

I just finished pre-ordering the new novels from Wizards of the Coast set in the core 4E D&D world presented in the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Masters Guide over at Amazon. I just happened to stumble upon them whi[...]
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3 Popular Campaign Types

Ok, lets talk about campaign types. There are 3 basic types of campaigns that I have seen DM’s run. The Epic “Destruction of the known Universe, and you’re the only people capable of doing anything about it” camp[...]
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Chaos Scar Campaign: Session 1 Audio Podcast

Four adventurers enter the land of the Chaos Scar seeking fame and fortune. Join first time DM, Jeff, and the PCS, Jetly, Chatty Chan, Broo Slee and Lou Gordons as they take of a bunch of frog people in their first adven[...]
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Which Campaign?

I’ve been playing around with a couple of campaign ideas. A large portion of humanity has been shrunken down to the size of large insects (not certain of the whole story here yet); how will you survive in a world wher[...]
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The Next Game

So it's coming up on a year since I last ran a campaign, even a short one. And I'm pretty happy with that, honestly. Playing 2-3 times a week continues to be pretty rad. Being a player is just fun, and it's given me a lo[...]
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If You Like Castles & Crusades So Much, Why the Hell are You Playing D&D 3.5?

I’m in an odd situation.  I am a huge fan of Castles & Crusades but I use D&D 3.5 for my ongoing Rappan Athuk campaign. Why? Well, mainly because it’s grandfathered in, so to speak.  I started the c[...]
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“And you try and tell the young people of today that…”

I don’t know how we did it, but we managed to do an entire session of Star Wars without having a single encounter. From Nar Shaddaa to Corellia it was all roleplaying, and perhaps one of the best sessions I have h[...]
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Now, where were we?

I first must start this post with massive apologies. You have no doubt been wondering about the lack of posts over the past few weeks and the simple reason is this: work, or Darth Real Life as Star Wars fans call it. So [...]
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An Intarwub Primer to Dark Sun

As Girlfriend DM already established in our previous post, we are totally hyped for Dark Sun. The second season of D&D Encounters will be focusing on the new setting featuring an adventure called “Fury of the W[...]
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My Alpha Omega Campaign is Ending–A Post-Mortem

My Alpha Omega RPG campaign ends this weekend and I wanted to get up a few thoughts about the game and how the campaign went overall. The game is not ending because my players did not enjoy my plot. I think the story par[...]
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Golden Scrolls – Becoming a Better Player

by Ben McFarland First, let me thank Expy for his kindness and consideration, permitting me to indulge in my series of exercises over the last five months. This time, though, I don’t want to talk about what to do in a [...]
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Fading Suns meets Warhammer 40.000

Yes, time travel is the word of this campaign. First time-jump was 250 years into future. And second time-jump they tried to get back to past into their own time but what you know, evil GM screwed things up and they jump[...]
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How do you make module-driven games seem less railroaded?

Hi all… Yes, it seems that nearly every time I post anything these days, it’s asking a question. But before I ask, let me provide some context… We have a very small group (currently 2 or 3 players depen[...]
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Up and out

For the first time, I think we really have gotten onto a good path as much as Star Wars is concerned. Most of the campaigns I have run in Star Wars, with the exception of the very first, were started by me. Really, it wa[...]
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The devils that we know

Major apologies are due. This post is about a session three weeks ago. But what with work and someone fiddling with my Net connection I’ve had little chance to update. To tell the truth, I’m posting this from[...]
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[Fading Suns] How to get new friends? Destroy their spacestation!

Heroes have discovered, that they are not lost in space, but actually jumped into future when entering the Jumpgate.When they did the fatal jump, they were in hurry and didn't have enough time to calibrate and ensure the[...]
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Fading Suns – 50th session

Today we started our 50th session in Fading Suns campaign Lost in space. We played our first session of this campaign in February 25. So this far game has lasted around 3 months.Sessions haven't been that long, one or tw[...]
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Reality Shift Part 3 – Living to Serve

In Reality Shift Part 1, I introduced the RS concept which asks: “what would our D&D worlds be like if we dropped the idea that the game rules are a model of reality and instead adopt them as the actual reality of [...]
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Other Options for the Language Problem

"Over the next day or two." Yes. Right then.I've got a number of ideas about ways to deal with the language problem, most of which aren't exclusive; in fact, I think a lot of these would work better if you used them toge[...]
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Reality Shift Part 2 – The Haves & Have-Nots

In “Reality Shift Part 1″, I introduced the Reality Shift concept.  Simply put, a reality shift is just a conscious agreement among the DM and players to suspend their disbelief and accept that the game worl[...]
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Impressions on Eberron

When the Eberron campaign setting came out in 3rd edition, I had dismissed it as uninteresting. Also, as I already had purchased the materials for 5 other published campaigns, I did not want to invest money in yet anoth[...]
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Showdown in the Temple of Orcus – Update 1

Two sessions have passed since my last campaign update.  This is an update of the first of those two sessions. I can be a bit lazy with campaign posts simply because they are more time-consuming than other posts and[...]
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Beer, Pretzels, and Death – The House Rules of My Rappan Athuk Campaign

Here are the House Rules I have up at Epic Words for my players' perusal.  Figured I'd share them with the blogosphere.  Feedback is welcomed.Allowed Source MaterialPlayer and DM SourcesPlayer's Handbook Dungeo[...]
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What If The DM Was One of Us…

Often times we find ourselves skimming over the “Deity” section or simply scrawling down a name on the character sheet and forgetting it for the rest of the game, in many different groups I’ve noticed people open t[...]
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The Mountebank: 1st ed/LL/AEC Class

Oh mountebank, how I have yearned for ye. Way back in the misty day--before girls and punk rock turned my head--I can distinctly remember opening that old issue of Dragon (#65 I do believe) to read The Great Man Himself [...]
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Random Events

Today, a few random events and rumors for your consideration. A while back I wrote an article about adapting news articles to your campaign. These ideas were all pulled from today's paper. Well today's paper on the day t[...]
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Flagged for PvP

Well, my Sydney trip is almost over. Too soon again and it is hard to tell when I will be up here again. Between the late nights and later mornings, it’s been hard to get to a computer so I’ll let you in on a[...]
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Variant 1st Ed/LL/AEC Class: White Wizard

Inspired by a recent foray into the much-famed City of the Black Toga in a play-by-post campaign, I have been itching to introduce some of the ideas found in the old second edition Lankhmar supplement into my own LL/Adva[...]
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Hill Cantons, the South by Southwest Front

Having received the critical mass point of "what is up with your blog and campaign" type email, I've finally reached the point of tearing myself away from the so-called real world to resume posting. Short answer on the "[...]
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The Survival Trophy

So because I run a freakin’ lethal campaign, I figured some reward - some badge of honor- should be bestowed to the player whose character has lasted the longest.  Once your character bites it, you must hand over [...]
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The best and largest solution

Well, we finally managed to come to some sort of decision with the gaming group about our large numbers. Truth be told, with around twelve people we are more of a club and less a group now. The fact is, as other people h[...]
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Showdown in the Upper Temple of Orcus – Part II: Grinding

[general Rappan Athuk spoiler warning][photos compliments of Dave the Knave]  We left our heroes facing down a hezrou demon.  Apart from some pesky green gargoyles, he was the only threat since the party had ro[...]
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The Showdown continues…

[general Rappan Athuk spoiler warning]The Showdown in the Upper Temple of Orcus continues tonight.  Last time, the players spent a decent amount of session time prepping for the battle, so we didn't get too far int[...]
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Some Campaign Ideas

Last week, I presented a few ideas for adventures, mostly themed around the idea of St. Patrick’s Day, tangentially at least. However, the ideas I’ve had recently are rather different and would in all cases [...]
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