Sea Princes #29: Exchange and Escape

It's time for another jaunt into my Sea Princes Campaign. Last time, the crews of the Bird of Prey and Osprem's Kiss arrived at the port of Scuttlecove to trade Crimson Fleet Cpt. Ironclaw McGrat[...]
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Boarface & the Snake Museum

On 3/30 Brian Murphy ran Natalie Bennett, Chris F, and I in a Google+ game.Here's what happened... “No! I’m done with him, and I’m leaving. After what happened to Sacco, and the nothing he did about it... You can [...]
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Creighton’s Corner: Campaign Primer

Every campaign needs a campaign primer. A campaign primer is a GM’s chance to set the scene for the players and to provide them with basic information about the setting, upcoming adventures and other information of not[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening Actual Play] Endangered Species Episode 5

Yesterday’s game was something of a catch-up session for two players who weren’t able to make it in the past few games, who were thankfully working on the same plotline. This was a decidedly short session, bu[...]
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Crypt of the Sun Lord

This adventureaweek.com product is 28 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 2 pages SRD, leaving 24 pages of module, so let's check this out! [...]
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Grokking The Message: Naming Places & Campaigns

So, here it is: a day late, thanks to the Easter long weekend, but better late than never! Normal Service will be restored next week… in the meantime, enjoy. We’re still working our way through what was origi[...]
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[Carrion Crown] The Scouring of Harrowstone

We played this session of Carrion Crown last week, but my trip to PAX East precluded writing it up in time for Actual Play Friday. As scheduling prevented the group from playing this week, as of this post everything is &[...]
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Friday Knight News – Triskaidekaphobic Gaming Edition: 13-APR-2012

Happy Friday the 13th, everybody! That’s right – a haunted day and me without my hockey mask and machete… What does it have to do with gaming? Nothing! As far as I’m concerned, it’s just ano[...]
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Remembering a Shady Hero

Today is the birthday of a friend who is gone but never forgotten. The following tribute is reprinted from my Greyhawk Comic from a few years ago: In MemoriamBrian J. Kuebrich'sDrake 'Al Drak' Adair"I do not rigidly[...]
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Andrew’s Angle: Clerics are NOT Healbots

Welcome to Dungeons and Dragons! Lets have the players introduce themselves… ‘Hail! I am the mighty Fighter! Through extensive training I have become the master of all forms of martial combat. My heavy armor abso[...]
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PAX East 2012

So PAX East happened. That was a thing. After spending the whole weekend in 2011, I decided to be more targeted in 2012 and only spend Saturday there. Plus, the convention fell on Easter weekend and the Easter Sunday din[...]
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The Gassy Gnoll: How I Came to Love/Hate Combat (RPG Blog Carnival, April 2012)

As a Gnoll, there’s a part of me that loves combat. The Gnoll wading into the thick of battle protected by nothing more than the hair on his back and a thin layer of hide armor. The Gnoll slicing through enemies wi[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 150: Kiss of the Spider-Woman, Part 7

Icosahedrophilia’s sesquicentennial episode is here, now! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS to hear our heroes learn the identity of the illithids’ torture victim and gain additional i[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening] Endangered Species Cabals – The Justice Knights

Eccentric would be too kind a word for the Cabal that call themselves the Justice Knights. A team of young, and perhaps deluded Mages with an obsession with the new and interesting are somewhat of an odd duck in the Toky[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening] Endangered Species Cabals – Negoro-Gumi

The Negoro-Gumi Cabal is a secretive group consisting of members that all belong to the Adamantine Arrows Order. They work closely with the Amatsu-Kami, having sworn oaths of fealty to protect the harmony of the Tokyo Co[...]
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[Solo GPC] 530: Adventures on the Emerald Isle

When we last left off, our hero Loholt - at the tender age of 18 - had been made a knight. More than that, he had been recognized as one of two potential heirs to the throne of the kingdom, bastard though he may be. So d[...]
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The Imperial History Of Earth-Regency, Part 9: Peter Pan, The Saint, & The Fairy Princess – 1980-1997

Pieces Of Creation is an occasional recurring column at Campaign Mastery in which Mike offers game reference and other materials that he has created for his own campaigns. All images used to illustrate this article are p[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening] Endangered Species Cabals – The Shakha Foundation

Despite its name, the Shakha Foundation is a Cabal of Free Council futurists and their Mysterium allies, who are dedicated to the study of the Techgnostic practices as a means of forging the future of Awakened magic. Whi[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening] Endangered Species Cabals – The Amatsu-Kami

Named after the highest pantheon of gods of the Shinto Religion, the Amatsu-Kami are the foremost Cabal of mages in the Tokyo Consilium. Each and every member of the Amatsu-Kami can claim direct lineage with the ancient [...]
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Beginning: Comments On 5E

Race, Class, Theme, Background Well, since a lot of my writing time (i.e, time when code is compiling, tests are running, etc) is being taken up with occasional rants on the 5e boards, it seems to me that I could …[...]
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Making an RPG ‘Bucket List’

After a previous DM’ing article and the first commenter asked for more bucket list stuff I thought I would write an article regarding d10 RPG Bucket List items.  Here are mine. 1. Play a party... [[ This is a con[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening] Endangered Species Cabals – Yomi

The Silver Ladder aligned Cabal known as Yomi is one of the most influential and powerful political players in the Tokyo Consilium. Emma-O, a ruthless Mastigos with an ultra-conservative agenda leads the cabal, and while[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening] Endangered Species Cabals – The Shichifukujin

The Shichifukujin “Seven Lucky Gods” are a cabal of experienced Mages in the Tokyo Consilium. Widely regarded as eccentric, or even possibly insane, this cabal is focused on the study of synchronicity as an a[...]
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The Journal of Abraham Nermal: Abraham’s Big Score

The local gravedigger is prone to talk for a free meal and  drink..So, with the end of the world about to doom us all I decided some creature comforts before the inevitable disembowelment and eternal torment would b[...]
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The Journal of Abraham Nermal: Welcome to Nightwick

Heard from a grubby little fellow getting drunk in a Nightwick alley,So let me tell you a thing or two about the mausoleum in the ole abbey. I went with a bunch of charming chaps, a rather rude inquisitor who inquired al[...]
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Creighton’s Corner: Starting a New Campaign

There are two basic ways you can start a campaign. Both are valid and both have a number of pros and cons. As always, the one you pick depends on your personal preferences and those of your players. Method 1: Choose a mo[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening Actual Play] Endangered Species Episode 4a & 4b

With the long weekend holiday this week, the group was able to convene for two short sessions this week. Unfortunately the long weekend also resulted in the team only being composed of Masamune (played by Hikkikomori), A[...]
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The Prismatic Art Collection Kickstarter

The Prismatic Art Collection is a Kickstarter aiming to create several pieces of high quality fantasy artwork. These pieces will be released as Creative Commons Share-Alike, so that they can be used by anyone in any prod[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: Roleplaying Sacrifice

This past week was tough with a lot of real work in my real job, not leaving much space for RPGs. Once I told my friend we were born in the wrong time. With few orcs left to hunt, dragons even more rare, and princesses&#[...]
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[Carrion Crown] Adventurer’s Vacation

We played Carrion Crown this week, but there’s no time for a write-up. You’ll have to sit tight for the next installment of The Haunting of Harrowstone here on Held Action‘s Actual Play Friday. Hint: en[...]
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Press Release: WotC announces Rise of the Underdark Campaign!

It may be the D&D 4E is in its twilight, but at least the WotC Development Team is still churning out some pretty awesome material for 4E before D&D Next comes out.  I have to admit I was pretty excited by the[...]
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The Power Of Synergy: Maximizing Character Efficiency

One of my regular players and an occasional contributor here at Campaign Mastery, Ian Gray, has a simple philosophy when it comes to rewards – never ask for +5 when five +1′s will do. The Judo Of Wishes It[...]
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Sea Princes #28: Reveals and Ransoms

Welcome back to the further exploits of the Sea Princes Campaign. Last time, the crew of the Bird of Prey and Osprem's Kiss sailed south to the Pirate Isles and the Crimson Fleet's home port of Scuttl[...]
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Monsterhearts Actual Play – Edgegate, Part 1

Joe Mcdaldno, creator of Monsterhearts, asked me “What happened in your session? What were the big highlights?”. I thought this deserved a separate post to make it easier to find. I’ll probably do a fol[...]
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Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 149: Kiss of the Spider-Woman, Part 6

Are you ready to follow the crew of the Broken Promise deeper into Torog’s torture den? If so, please listen now to episode 149 of the Icosahedrophilia podcast, or subscribe via iTunes, Zune, or plain old RSS. In o[...]
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The Chronicles Of Heavenly Artifice LXIII – Traps and Recklessness

Charles sighed and headed back to Yu-Shan… For every step forward, a half a step back! Now he had a bunch of child-“pets” to do something with in all his free time… Many of them had been on the streets, d[...]
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The Imperial History of Earth-Regency, Part 8: The Ascendancy Of The Peerage 1978-1979

Only a short post this week, I’m afraid, and half of it is taken up with a reality check on where things stand at this point for readers who may be coming in late. I could have continued, but I would like to start each[...]
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Oh the games we play

Many of the RPGs I currently play are chosen by my boys. This is not necessarily a bad thing; I only have a few more years in the house with them before they go off to adventure on their own, so I take every opportunity[...]
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The Chronicles Of Heavenly Artifice LXII – Moving In Faerie Circles

Charles sighed… there was one REALLY obvious source for information on visiting the Wyld… He could go and talk to the Raksha around Hoenheim directly… It was such a pain to get actual information out of[...]
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[Mage: the Awakening Actual Play] Endangered Species Episode 3 (Long)

This weekend’s game was shorter than the usual, resulting in what will be a much more condensed Actual Play report for today. Also, I was only able to run for three player characters: Amaya, Masamune and Reimu. Mik[...]
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A Weird Wedding

Game played on 3/7DM - Greg BackusNick the Pike - MePortomis - Michael HenryGodfry - Jeffrey OsthoffRadomir - Eeri Oikarinen The sound of wood cracking against wood echoed down the alley. “That’s good Sacco! Again!�[...]
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[Carrion Crown] Who Lops the Lopper?

 Carrion Crown continued this week with Annie (Grift), the Dan (Darius Carfax St. James), a Dan (Sir Horace Gunderson), Toby (Solis and his eidolon Gea) and Tyler (Alexandros Callimachi), and Hunter presiding as GM. Thi[...]
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With The Right Seasoning: Beyond Simple Names

Welcome to “part 3a” of this series on names and naming things – and finding the right choice. Today’s post was actually intended to be part of the previous entry in the series, but the subjects o[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Session LXI – Dreams and Iron Bars

The Raksha of Creation’s Wyld Pockets are not the terrifying horde of the Balorean Crusade – or even a significant threat, at least on Earth. Their territory is small, their population limited, and the Earth is e[...]
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Into the Hills with the Reavers

The Hill Cantons have a strong martial borderlands tradition perhaps best summed up by their much-feared battle cry: “Live Weird or Die.”Unlike the rest of the Overkingdom, most forces are directly drawn by the semi-[...]
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Sea Princes #27: Marooned!

Welcome back to the further exploits of the Sea Princes Campaign. Last time, cursed Captain Rennaud and the affable crew of the Bird of Prey escaped another encounter with the Keoish privateer Lydia's Light. We[...]
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The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LX – The Random Scrounge

Mr Montague’s look at the Elsewhere Net basically involved an introduction to Malinda the Diviner, Mistress of the Aether – and her growing museum of weird items.  was a pleasant, slightly-past middle age, gypsy[...]
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Border War Campaign Map

Forgot to post this with the call to arms for the border war this morning. The image below is the mini-campaign map showing an area just off to the north and east of the Hill Cantons proper. Each hex runs five miles acro[...]
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The Border War Has Commenced

The Hill Cantons border war mentioned last month is now off the ground.Round One will be a 2-3 week playtest of the abstract mass combat rules that I finished the draft of this week. I will be running it as a small-[...]
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The Chronicles Of Heavenly Artifice LIX – Explanations and Confusions

Charles had been hoping that there would be a bit of a time delay on troubles from extra Sidereal Exaltations… After all, Sidereal Exaltations often incarnated in small children, and the Sidereals normally had to h[...]
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