Reveiw: Castles & Crusades Monsters
I love monsters. I love monster books. My first introduction to AD&D was via the 1st ed Monster Manual and I was instantly hooked. So these tomes always have a special place in my heart.Castles & Crusades a[...]Read on >>
[HOUSERULES] Corruption Redux…
Whilst I am determined to keep houserules to a minimum for my planned Castles & Crusades campaign next year, some will be included to help create the flavour of the world.In the world of Tekralh, magic is wild ener[...]Read on >>
Weapons and Armour in Risus
Hear me out. I don't want gear lists for Risus. I don't want a bunch of modifiers and special rules for specific weapons. It isn't that sort of game. Risus already has a perfectly fine rule in place for handling equipmen[...]Read on >>
Gaming Inspiration :The Diseased
This idea didn't come from a cartoon like most of my other Gaming Inspirations do. However, I think our settings, our flavor text, need to include more sick and diseased townsfolk. Most games have healers, clerics, [...]Read on >>
[Tuesday Map] Darkling Depths Level 2
May 21, 2013 from A Character for Every Game
Filed under: dungeons & dragons, Labyrinth Lord, RPG, RPG Hub
The MegaDungeon Continues! Level 2 of the Darkling Depths is broken up into three distinct areas. The main complex of …Continue reading »
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Wushu Open by Daniel Bayn kicks bottom – through a window on fire
I jump, grab a red paper light fitting, swing across the room and boot the first mook through a flowery paper wall, I roll with the momentum over a sloshing fish tank and connect my fist into the face of another. Wushu [...]Read on >>
Daily Cosplay
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Walking Dead Spoilers
The 4th season doesn't begin until October of this year (as fast as time flies, its already October) but shooting for the next season has begun. As you may remember the season ended with the grand battle between the two [...]Read on >>
Angry Birds Alight in Movie Near You
As you may or may not have heard, Angry Birds is coming to the big screen. A 3d film is planned for release in 2016. Angry birds of course is the wildly popular video game/everything else that spread about the universe a[...]Read on >>
Armor Up
Being turned to stone . . . this is one very cool piece of work. Mirko Cavalloni [...]Read on >>
Quiet Country
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Who Made You King
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Solar Winds
The sun dwells in constant turmoil. Massive storms rage across her surface as she burns with the fires of orc. She generates powerful magnetic fields that rise from her surface in gigantic loops, clawing into the dark re[...]Read on >>
Rigs Ants
That's what they should name these ants, after Riggs from Lethal Weapon. Apparently the southern states are being invaded by an ant whose seemingly purposeless motions and movements have given it the name of 'crazy ant.[...]Read on >>
Review: Empires of the Shining Sea (Part I)
A while ago (I honestly don’t remember exactly when) picked up the Empires of the Shining Sea boxed set. Seeing as I have a stack of stuff I've managed to collect, and haven't really read yet, I decided to pull thi[...]Read on >>
Review: Tomorrow’s War
From Ambush Alley Games and Osprey Publishing, Tomorrow’s War is a sfi-fi skirmish ruleset detailing infantry warfare in the future. The system is designed for 15mm but could easily be bumped up to 28mm. As a[...]Read on >>
Risus Death Roll
In Risus combat, the winner decides the fate of the loser. This could range from embarrassment to a badass scar or even death. Sometimes you'll want to put that down to a roll. Risus Death RollIn a deadly combat, a defea[...]Read on >>
Freelancer Advice: How To Kill Your Career
You are amazing and your designs are awesome. You have a rare talent and really you should be treated differently to other freelancers. After all, you are doing the publisher a favour working for his company... Art: [...]Read on >>
Things You Can Do When the Party Hates Your NPC
Yesterday, I talked about situations in which the party hates an NPC you need them not to hate, and how not to make it worse. Today, I’m going to look at the positive side—ways to actively try to get the NPC [...]Read on >>
1,000-Word Rebuttal: Against the Fetish of Progressive Design
This blog hosted “Penny Dreadfuls: Against the Nostalgia Fetish in Fantasy Roleplaying” yesterday, a pleasant-but-perhaps-confused rant against nostalgia in roleplaying game design, and in favor of progress a[...]Read on >>
Combat Focused Game
I was able to play GURPS Gladiators obsidian portal link +Vaclav Tofl and +Martin Davis. It is a combat focus game, but I still get thrilled about combat.Combat games require accepting character death or l[...]Read on >>
A few glitches
I thought I had "Town Guard" ready to go, but final attempts to publish have led to a few glitches.Busy working to overcome them now.[...]Read on >>
Confidence
Surprisingly enough when it comes to most of life's choices and requirements there actually is one piece of advice that can help almost universally: be confident. Confidence is one of the key things 'required' for attrac[...]Read on >>
Legends & Lore: Exploration And Interaction Pillars
After a two-week absence Legends & Lore returns with a look at two of Next's occasionally-mentioned three-pillar system, which I just now realized that if arranged properly could be referred to as “ICE” [...]Read on >>
New Town Guard Cover Art
A bit fantasy, a bit "law and order", and a bit heraldic.Getting pretty close to what I originally envisioned.[...]Read on >>
I want to live in Los Angeles Not the one in Los Angeles no. 2 – May 20, 2013
This week we take a look at the snot green warehouse where you and the other investigators hang out on Thursday nights. Better bring your boxing gloves because Dave Stuab (last issue) wants to throw. &[...]Read on >>
Das Schwarze Auge Schicksalspfade Videos!
Hier gibt es jede Menge bemalter “Schicksalspfade” Miniaturen zu bewundern. Ein paar Projekte die wir im Studio in den letzten Monaten für Kunden für das Das Schwarze Auge “Schicksalspfade&rdq[...]Read on >>
Lookie What I Got! Mail Call!
+Rafael Chandler sent me a copy of SlaughterGrid. I've started reading it, but need to give this bad boy more time to read and digest. More to come. Thanks Rafael![...]Read on >>
What I’m Up To
These are halcyon days, dear readers.Back in the early 90s, I had the misfortune of coming of age in a gaming desert. For reasons best left to a doctoral thesis on the statistics of population distribution, I attended a [...]Read on >>
Star Wars
Returns to the small screen in 2014 with Star Wars Rebels. Set in the period between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope the animated series tracks the dying light of the jedi as the Empire tightens its grip on the Galaxy[...]Read on >>
Salute 2013 Episode 1
The first episode of the interviews we recorded at Salute 2013. Bit later than we would have wanted, but here they are. [...]Read on >>
Treasures of NeoExodus: Silence
This installment of the Treasures of NeoExodus-line is 3 pages long, 1 page SRD and 1 page item-cards, leaving us with 1 page content, so let's check this out! [...]Read on >>
Imperial Heroes: Pregenerated Characters
This collection of Pre-gens for the Jade regent-AP is 28 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/SRD, 1 page introduction/how-to use,1 page author bios/back cover, leaving us with 24 pages of content, so let's t[...]Read on >>
Forgive my gloating…
I've been collecting books and other products relating to the World of Greyhawk pretty much since there was such a thing to collect. So as you might imagine, there are very few lacunae in my collection. Today, I filled o[...]Read on >>
My PaizoCon events have been turned in to LPJ
I have turned in my PaizoCon events for NeoExodus. This year, I am freed from having to do any Pathfinder Society, so I went "big", offering three adventures. Two of those were already run at Denver events and other suc[...]Read on >>
New Monsters: The Thunderstinger, Red Doom, and Flame Wings
Long ago, I picked up a copy of The Dungeon #10 at my hobby shop just as they arrived. This was the October 1977 issue and was one of the first issues of The Dragon magazine to be available at Dibbles. This issue had a c[...]Read on >>
Playtesting: roll Xd20 keep highest skill checks.
In my every other Friday m20 game I am running I am using the tweaked skill and...[...]Read on >>
Review: Castles & Crusades Core
Three books make up the Castles & Crusades core. The main one is the Castles & Crusades Players Handbook it focuses on character creation and leveling, plus many of the rules around equipment and combat. &n[...]Read on >>
Multiclassed to oblivion
May 20, 2013 from canageek
Filed under: 3e, advice, Advice/Tools, dungeons & dragons, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
Another post in my series on how to build characters that will actually help the party. This advice comes from a very common character type that I could not stand at all. The overly-heavily multiclassed character. Multic[...] Filed under: 3e, advice, Advice/Tools, dungeons & dragons, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
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History of Steampunk & Victoriana RPGs (Part Five 2009)
THE PUNK-HEADED LEAGUE?For this point forward, the lists go by year. I could have consolidated them a little, but they become a little unwieldy and over 4K words. 2009’s significant as there’s a groundswell[...]Read on >>
Castles & Crusades Week
So just about a year ago I asked for some advice on Castles & Crusades.The response was overwhelming and overwhelmingly positive. I went out and picked up everything I thought I needed for the game, then picked up so[...]Read on >>
On The Origins Of Orcs, Chapters 47-51
May 20, 2013 from Campaign Mastery
Filed under: 3.x, Adventure Prep, campaign setting, Campaigns, DM Advice, Inspiration, RPG Hub
I’ve got so much campaign prep to get done that if I don’t do it here, I’ll never get it done in time… Chapters 47 to 51 were in outline note form when I started. Oh, and for those wondering how [...] Filed under: 3.x, Adventure Prep, campaign setting, Campaigns, DM Advice, Inspiration, RPG Hub
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unnamed Gygax and Grubb campaign setting
May 20, 2013 from Blog of Holding
Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Game Design, Legacy D&D, Other Systems, RPG Hub
This week, two exciting, unpublished TSR settings collided in my head to form a third setting. setting 1: Jeff Grubb project On the latest WOTC D&D podcast, Steve Winter talked about the great campaign-world books th[...] Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Game Design, Legacy D&D, Other Systems, RPG Hub
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Projects – where the Dodecahedron is going
Now that Magical Theorems & Dark Pacts is out (and is selling like… well… what’s the opposite of hotcakes? cold …Continue reading » [...]Read on >>
WFRP: Groz Zorn (11th Sitting)
Thursday night was the eleventh sitting of our WarHammer 2e online campaign.My PCMordrin Skorkinson, Giant Slayer. The giant he slayed was a 12 foot tall troglodyte. It counts. He is also the bemoaner of the doom t[...]Read on >>
Dice, Specifically Specialty Dice
Just a short post today. Sorry it is up late. I had a different post set to go but at the last minute I realized it wasn't really ready to go out yet and pulled it down. However, I have been thinking a lot lately about s[...]Read on >>
Yet Even More Feedback on 5e
Hey, for once, not a bitter, hate-filled, rant. This is in reply to the latest “This Week In D&D” post, so, read that first, or this will make even less sense than most of the things I write. This [...]Read on >>
Chainmail Gnolls
Like I said in my last post, I've been working on old minis while waiting on my Bones.Sunday night I based up my Chainmail Gnolls.I'm really pleased with this red guy. The demonic aspect really isn't subtle...Pair of arc[...]Read on >>
MightyDungeons
Freunde von HeroQuest aufgepasst! MightyDungeons ist ein netter kleiner Zeitvertreib für Android, iPad und Steam. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad ist bisher recht überschaubar, aber es macht Spaß die Acheivments f[...]Read on >>
Supplement Review: The Stealer of Children by Peter Spahn from Small Niche Games
May 20, 2013 from Game Knight Reviews
Filed under: Campaign, design, Game Design, GM, Inspiration, Labyrinth Lord, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
Of late, I’ve had the opportunity to review several quality books from small publishers and seen how well a product can be produced even on a budget. That said, occasionally I come across a product with a great con[...] Filed under: Campaign, design, Game Design, GM, Inspiration, Labyrinth Lord, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
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