Adding extra sensations to your game

There’s an important rule in GMing: show, don’t tell. Now, when you put a setting together, you of course tell the players various things, but once the game is in full swing, it’s obviously much more im[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Pirate Ship Like, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst designed to add colour and flavo[...]
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Raging Swan released So What’s The Human Called, Anyway?

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of So What’s The Human Called, Anyway? a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Creighton Broadhurst. If you are as crap at naming NPCs a[...]
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News from Around the Net: 3-FEB-2012

February!?! Where’d January go? Geesh! Here in Colorado, the snow started to fly last night and we are in the first real winter storm in 2012. What does that mean for yours truly? Not much really… I work from[...]
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Divine Favor: The Inquisitor

This part of the divine favor series from Open Design is 20 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC and 1 page SRD, leaving 17 pages of content for the Inquisitor, so let's check out what we get, shall we? [...]
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Book of Beasts: Monsters of the Shadow Plane

The first of the supplements from Jon Brazer Enterprises for the upcoming Shadowsfall-products centred on the shadow plane, the latest Book of Beasts (the predecessor made it on my top-10-2011-list) is 52 pages long, 1 p[...]
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Divine Favor: the Paladin

This installment of Open Design's Divine Favor-series is 20 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, leaving 17 pages of content, so let's check it out! [...]
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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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Obsidian Eclipse Book 2: Root and Branch

This adventure/sourcebook from Louis Porter Design is 27 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/SRD, 1 page ToC, 3 pages of advertisements, leaving 21 pages of content, so let's check this installment of Obsidi[...]
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Publisher Interview: Joseph Goodman of Goodman Games

The “Old School” gaming movement continues to impress me with the enthusiasm of the gamers and game companies supporting it. One of the games many gamers are excited about in 2012 is the Spring release of the[...]
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The Sinister Secrets of Silvermote

This adventure from Total Party Kill Games is 67 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving a whopping 64 pages of content! Not bad at all, so let's check out the dread laboratory of Temerlyth, [...]
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10 Luckbringer feats

By Thilo Graf This pdf from Rite Publishing is 5 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement, leaving 2 pages for the 10 feats, so let’s check them out! Steven D. Russell’s Luckbringer is[...]
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#1 With a Bullet Point: 7 Time Thief/Time Warden Feats

This pdf from Super Genius Games is 3 pages long, 1 page front cover/introduction, 1 page SRD, leaving 1 page of content: [...]
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Late to the party: D&D 5e

Boy, have I been out of the loop. I guess Monte Cook has been back at Wizards for ~4 months? And he’s been writing a column? This makes sense, given that there’s now an announcement about this 5e playtest. Lo[...]
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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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Game-Shepherding PCs

When I wrote about game shepherd NPCs on Monday, Lugh chimed in with several suggestions for keeping the game shepherd from taking up too much of the stage. The last of these was, instead of using an NPC to dispense the [...]
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Australian Game Designers

For those who are interested in the world of Aussie RPG design, there is a Facebook group dedicated to designers down under.Australian Game Designers (Facebook)For those who din't have Facebook accounts, I've set up a co[...]
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The Sinking: Animation

This installment of "The Sinking" from 0one Games is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page SRD, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page advertisement and 1 page back cover, leaving 9 pages of content, so let's check out[...]
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Death in the Spindleflow Marsh

This free little adventure from Headless Hydra Games is 11 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1/2 a page editorial, 2 pages of advertisements and 1 page SRD, leaving 6 1/2 pages of content. [...]
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#1 With a Bullet Point: 9 Armiger Feats

This pdf from Super Genius Games is 3 pages long, 1 page introduction/front, 1 page SRD, leaving 1 page for the 9 new feats of the Armiger. Let's check it out! [...]
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ALBION – The Roleplaying Game

By Dale Medhurst Author: Tim Gray Published by Silver Branch Games Centuries ago, the years of ecological abuse came to a head. Stories say that Gaia,Mother Earth, caused the sea to rise, the ground tremble and the clima[...]
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Book Review: Unusual Suspects: Guide to an Interrogation Session by Robert Oglodzinski from Library of Ancient Scroll

When I started working with Robert Oglodzinski a few months ago, I reviewed Walls Can Talk, which collects a few “legends and adventure ideas” for fantasy and horror games. The layout, done by Michael Wolf (S[...]
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Learning from Video Games: Zelda and the Art of the Game Shepherd

Yesterday, I wrote about the game shepherd NPC. What got me thinking about that character type (or at least, what got me thinking this time) was that one feature that all of the 3D Zelda titles share—their local equiva[...]
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The Untold Undead

Wow. My degree of nerdiness has officially reached a point, that surpasses even "has no life" and potentially devolves into absorbing the life of other people, only to come out with zero. Why? Because I'm typing this, bu[...]
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Van Graaf’s Journal of Adventuring

This pdf from Mongoose Publishingis 142 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page advertisement, 1 page SRD and 1 page back cover, leaving 137 pages of content, so let's check out what Van Graaf's tome has[...]
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The Spirit of the White Wyvern

This adventure from 0one Gamesis 34 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement and 1 page back cover, leaving 29 pages of content for the adventure, so let's check it out [...]
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Supplement Review: Caves & Caverns (PFRPG) by Creighton Broadhurst and David Posener from Raging Swan Press

Just about every fantasy campaign I’ve ever played in has involved a cave system or cavern at one time or another. And though I’m a fan of dungeons, I really like it when there’s more of a natural eleme[...]
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The Dangers of the Game Shepherd NPC

One of the things we’ve learned pretty quickly about introducing a player or group to a world they’ve never played in before is that they might not really know what the place is like. Not everyone reads the s[...]
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Sorcerer’s Options: Beyond Bloodlines

This pdf from Super Genius Games is 11 pages long, 2/3 of a page front cover, 1 page editorial & SRD, leaving 9 1/3 pages of content for the sorcerer. [...]
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Mythic Menagerie: Faeries of the Fringe

This installment of the Mythic Menagerie-series from Super Genius Games is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page introduction, 1 page editorial/SRD, leaving 12 pages of content for the new fey, so let's check them ou[...]
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Madness at Gardmore Abbey unboxing video

In this unboxing video I am going to show you the contents of Madness At Gardmore Abbey, a Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition adventure for Heroic Tier. I haven't played the adventure, so will not comment on the quality[...]
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So What’s the NPC Like Anyway?

This pdf from Raging Swan Press is 15 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside of the front cover, 3 pages introduction, editorial foreword and ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement and 1 page back cover, leav[...]
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30 Haunts for Kaidan

This installment of Rite Publishing's #30-series takes us to Kaidan. It's a whopping 28 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 4 pages advertisement, 1 page back cover and 1 page SRD, leaving 19 pa[...]
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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: To Punish and Enslave (or “Being Lawful”)

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. - Albert Einstein One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who wi[...]
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Saturday Seed ~ 88 (Palladium Fantasy)

This week’s seed is for Palladium’s rich fantasy setting and takes a stab at racial intolerance at the same time. The Seed One of the characters comes into possession of a magical blade which proves itself a[...]
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Cthulhu Britanica: Shadows Over Scotland

Shadows Over Scotland is a hard back, black and white book, part of Cubicle 7’s Cthulhu Britannica series. It is the product of quite a lot of writing by Stuart Boon, and believe me when I tell you there is a lot of ma[...]
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Raging Swan Press releases Cultists of Havra Zhoul

This week, Raging Swan Press is proud to announce the release of Cultists of Havra Zhoul a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible GM’s RESOURCE by Pierre van Rooden that presents a semi-secret cult seemingly dedicated [...]
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News from Around the Net: 27-JAN-12

Hope everyone has had a good week! Mine has been interesting… We’ve been dealing with getting some water damage assessed and fixed in our house after a small overflow in an upstairs bathroom resulted in a fam[...]
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Kiss My Axe: Suffer the Witch

By Megan Robertson Don’t get in the way of a baffled Viking… Publisher’s blurb: “A group of Vikings cast ashore find a village stripped of its warriors. The chieftain speaks of a witch, once a wis[...]
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Streets of Zobeck

This urban noir adventure anthology set in the by now legendary clockwork city of Zobeck from Open Design is 94 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page advertisement, 1 blank page and 1 page [...]
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Alleys of Zobeck

This web-enhancement for Streets of Zobeck from Open Design is 17 pages long, 1 page front cover/editorial, 1/2 a page SRD, leaving 15 1/2 pages of content to add to the adventure anthology, so what exactly do we get? [...]
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Review: The Game Master by Tobiah Panshin

  I thought I’d do something a little different and review something slightly more out of the ordinary. I’d originally planned to have this up and online in November when I first heard about it, but I[...]
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Interview: Wynter Rouse, CoastCon 35 – The Dark Crab Rises in Biloxi, Mississippi – March 16-18, 2012

As CoastCon gets ready for its 35th annual science fiction and gaming convention in Biloxi, Mississippi on March 16-18, 2012, Wynter Rouse has her hands full. She’s the Charity Liason this year and she’s been[...]
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Overarching Plots: Why Aren’t We There Yet?

During my riff on overarching plots in general, I pointed out one question that is vital to the writer of the overarching plot at every event (and, for that matter, is one of the few that should be answered event by even[...]
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The Gassy Gnoll: What Makes a Location Fantastic (RPG Blog Carnival)

Once in a while a question crops up via a RPG Blog Carnival topic that makes me scratch my head and ponder for a bit. And yes, before you ask, most Gassy Gnolls are predominantly pondering people. We like to ponder just [...]
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Overarching Plots: The Major Conflict

In general, if you’ve got an overarching plot, you should have—one might even say there has to be—a major conflict. Something has to tie all those little plot threads together, after all! But how much do you ac[...]
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Dungeons & Dragons First Encounters – Vol. 2

By Paco Garcia Jaen Not long ago I had the pleasure to get my hands on the first volume of the D&D First Encounters saga, the Shadowplague volume. It was a treat! Just in case you haven’t seen that … [...]
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The Sinking: Tunnels of Despair

This installment of "The Sinking" from 0one Gamesis 17 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 2 pages of advertisements, 1 page SRD and 1 page back cover, leaving 10 pages of content, so let's chec[...]
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Aasimars: Heirs of Glory

This pdf from Raging Swan Pressis 31 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page blank inside the front cover, 2 pages editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page advice on reading stat-blocks, 1 page SRD, 1 page advertisement and 1 page b[...]
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Otyughnomicon: Typhoon-Kissed Otyugh

Thus installment of the series devoted to the cult garbage-gobblers from Purple Duck Gamesis 12 pages long, 1 page front cover, 4 2/3 pages of SRD (the last containing counters for all creatures featured herein), leaving[...]
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