Dungeon Dramas: A Guest Spot from Bob @ The Dice Bag
March 12, 2010 from Vulcan Stev's Database
Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
Welcome back to Dungeon Dramas, my ongoing series of plot hooks as developed by the random roll of my Story Cubes. Today’s Dungeon Drama is guest written by Bob from The Dice Bag.
Believe it or not, Bob and I conco[...] Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
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ITGW B2 Caves of Chaos is Go!
At the Austin D&D March Meetup I'll running B2 Caves of Chaos for International Traditional Gaming Week at BattleForge Games in Austin Texas March 21st! Classic D&D - B2 The Caves of ChaosDM - Norman J. Har[...]Read on >>
Yet Another Free Download: Complete Character #4
I figure that I shouldn't mess with a good thing. People seem to be really enjoying my Complete Characters series of NPC downloads, so allow me to introduce you to Shelly Jackson, the Psychic Cat-Lady. That's the crazy o[...]Read on >>
Do You Have Time For Serpents?
Last Saturday I participated in a demonstration game of Dragon Age – Dark Fantasy Roleplaying Set 1: For Characters Level 1 to 5, the new roleplaying game from Green Ronin Publishing based on Dragon Age: Orig[...]Read on >>
Exponential Number Encountered
[Very short idea I had while hitting snooze button over and over.]Instead of linear 1d6, 1d10*30, 1d100 or bellcurved (perhaps unintentially) 2d6, 3d36 I'd like to have an "exponential" scale. For instance, the surface o[...]Read on >>
things I want to do better
Lighting - This post has gotten me thinking. Often someone playing a magic-user says "I'm carrying a torch" and then we forget about the whole thing. If you were really going into a dungeon would you trust the wimp in th[...]Read on >>
[Friday Map] Geomorph Set 7
Another six geomorphs down! No real theme to this set, just getting back into the groove. [...]Read on >>
Five good things I learned playing D&D 4th edition (or… How I learned not to care about diagonal movement!)
Some of you might have gotten the idea from a previous post that I don’t like Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition. Nothing could be further from the truth. I played the game for the better part of a year and had fun wit[...]Read on >>
Houserules and Dice Fudging – at what point are you no longer playing D&D?
In the comments to my last post many people made the point that D&D is never played RAW, and each group will come to a consensus together on how the game should be played. My post was about PC mortality, and Ro[...]Read on >>
Lazy Friday Video Post: A Gentlemen’s Duel
I found this great short movie on Geeks are Sexy the day before yesterday and I thought this is something I have to share with my readers. The movie is not only extremely funny but also great inspiration for everyone [...]Read on >>
Microlite20, sold!
I am happy to announce that Microlite20 has a new owner. I received a whole load of enquiries regarding the rights to M20, and want to thank each and every person who took the time, thought and care to make an offer. If [...]Read on >>
Friday Funny: Krenshar-Pei
The shopkeeper looked at the leopard-spotted dog sitting outside his shop, and he found himself oddly compelled to leave his shop so he could pet the sad-looking animal. The dog sat there while he consoled it and asked i[...]Read on >>
Inversion, a Realm of the Manifold
Setting Background: The 21st century has been hard for humanity. Total ecological collapse across much of the world has brought humanity to the brink. Temperatures have risen worldwide, raising sea levels as th[...]Read on >>
Federation-Apocalypse Session 105 – The Chill of the Night
March 12, 2010 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: RPG, RPG Hub, campaign log, dungeons & dragons
So, they’d been traveling across Necropolis to reach Necropolis. Bloody confusing of the realm’s discoverers to simply give the place the name of the first city they’d arrived in there.
OK, it was hard to[...] Filed under: RPG, RPG Hub, campaign log, dungeons & dragons
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FYI bears are awesome
RUST BEAR# Encountered: 1 (1d4)Alignment: NeutralMovement: 120' (40')AC: 6HD: 5Attacks: 2 claws, biteDamage: d4/d4/d6Save as: Fighter 2Morale: 8Hoard Class: VIThese enchanted animals appear to be grizzly bears with a cop[...]Read on >>
Races of Eden: The Athirua
The Athirua set the standard for physical perfection that all of Adel aspires to, their beauty said to transcend even that of the Spirits. Throughout the history of Eden the scattered Athirua were whispered of as artifac[...]Read on >>
Arena 4e
Arena 4E is a fast-paced combat game for two or more players, and it can be played as a bloody free-for-all, a team vs. team cooperative effort, or any other combination.[...]Read on >>
Alternate Druid class abilities (Pathfinder)
It is time to progress with my Pathfinder alternate class abilities. Today, since we doing this in order, we will discuss the Druid. Behold: Alternate Class Abilities (Pathfinder RPG) Druid 1. Nature Embraced Druids have[...]Read on >>
Gaming with Kids: Temple of Elemental Evil (Session #7)
Session #7 involved a full table with all 10-players back in place for the first time since the beginning sessions. Will you just die? As most of the group rushed to lend a hand, Irma and Balder faced off against Lareth [...]Read on >>
Needing an RPG blogger to help with GitUo articles (Gaming in the Universe of…)
Good Day. Due in no small part to my current day job taking more time than the last one did, my posting schedule has gone from daily to erratic. I find myself back-logged on articles that need to be written for reviews[...]Read on >>
‘Escapist’ interview behind ‘The Truth About 4th Ed’
Here at DireKraken, we represent a selection of D&D players that have chosen not to play 4th Edition. We have a fairly good spectrum of opinions about it, ranging from ‘acceptable alternative system’ to[...]Read on >>
Character du Jour: Cudgel the Goblin
(No, this isn’t an instruction) Grey Goblins are known for three things: their granite toughness, their isolation, and their utterly ungoblinlike nature. For the one known as Cudgel, only two out of those three are[...]Read on >>
AC Bonus vs Save, Death Match!
For various reasons I'm really wanting AC to be only armor and not a bunch of other stuff e.g. dex bonus, magic bonus, spell buff. I'm also trying to eliminate as many modifiers during game play as possible.Using Targe[...]Read on >>
Initiative Tracking Tools
Initiative tracking is very important when it comes to running a Dungeons & Dragons game. Gamers all over the internet have come up with some unique and creative ways for tracking initiative. I thought I would take a[...]Read on >>
Character Death = Function of Play Style?
In the middle of another controversial post, Faustusnotes tosses out that character death rates have nothing to do with system and are actually dependent on the style of play. Taken to the extreme, I suppose I[...]Read on >>
When the Stars are Right.
When the stars are right, my players rock! You see, we had a pretty good session this last weekend. It's been well over 20 years since we'd played Call of Cthulhu and I'd never run the game, but it has quickly become o[...]Read on >>
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Throwing out a good game element for a better game element
I'd like to discuss one of the hardest things (for me) to do in game design. Throwing out or replacing a good game element for a better one. Its very hard on a human level to throw out something thats "still perfectly [...]Read on >>
Ancient Weapons: The Trebuchet
Trebuchets are the dominant siege engine in parts of the world. They have advantages over many other weapons, including longer range, the ability to throw a variety of objects, easy maintenance, and variable power. Trebu[...]Read on >>
“Blog of a new RPGer” interview
As you probably know I love to interview interesting people from the roleplaying industry. Yesterday something really surprising happened: Gordon from “Blog of a new RPGer” asked if he could do an interview with me. [...]Read on >>
The coolest sounding RPG book I’ve heard of in a while
Lucha Libre HERO! I can’t imagine ever getting around to running this but I like the fact that I live in a word where it can exist. (via Ken Hite) [...]Read on >>
Review: Heavy Rain
The Origami Killer has struck again, and the clock is ticking! Read on to find out if Heavy Rain lives up to the hype, how it almost gave me a panic attack, and why you definitely should give this game a look.[...]Read on >>
Lost in Space
In scifi, even if you can travel between planets, systems and stars, space is huge. Even if you can travel long distances relatively fast, it doesn't take away the fact, that space is infinite. Even if humanity has found[...]Read on >>
Reavers on the Seas of Fate – Twelfth Session Summary
Twelfth Session (12 page pdf), “Mansion of Shadows, Part II” – The PCs hang out with a Chelish noble family for a while, and witness depths of degeneration that make even hardened criminals from Ridd[...]Read on >>
Player’s Handbook 3 Review (4e)
I received a review copy of Player's Handbook 3. Part One of my review was published today at Eye of the Vortex. Part one has a detailed breakdown of the content, goes over the races and analyses the Hybrid C[...]Read on >>
Monstrous Races in 4E D&D – Githyanki
In the Dragon article that previewed the githzerai race from the upcoming Player's Handbook 3, the designers stated that the githyanki were not being developed as a PC race due to their villainous nature and they feel th[...]Read on >>
ENnies Test-Drive #3 – In the works!
I have been tearing through the products that have been submitted and decided that it was time for another test-drive. I kind of slacked off on these due to a combination of the holidays and poor health, but I’m [...]Read on >>
Genegrafting, Genetic Engineering, and Anthropomorphics in d20, Part IV
Our next group includes a variety of insectivores, including the various anteaters, the aardvark, numbat, echidna, and pangolin, the hedgehog, and the armadillo. Most of these creatures have basic passive defenses i[...]Read on >>
Microlite Interview with AntiPaladin Games
This interview originally appeared on Polyhedral Dreams on January 27th, 2010. There have been a couple small edits. While I was waiting for Randall Stukey to be able to get back up and running following the loss of his[...]Read on >>
D&D Dungeon Masters, the video
I realize this is old news but I have a few readers that don’t read a lot of other blogs so this is mainly for them. The last section bashes on 3.5 a bit, though I agree with most of the points they raise. Incid[...]Read on >>
Fiend Folio: Aarakocra
March 10, 2010 from How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less
Filed under: Old School, RPG, RPG Hub
I was recently reminded that I had completely forgotten to mention an item of crucial importance: I've got a copy of the AD&D Fiend Folio. (Someone very nice--but still evil!--figured out that I like collecting the o[...] Filed under: Old School, RPG, RPG Hub
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Stock Characters In Your RPGs
March 10, 2010 from The Spirits of Eden
Filed under: Campaigns, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub
My NPCs never die. This is not to say that they are invincible. They can surely be reduced to 0 HP and never seen again in that particular game. But that only gives them new life, a life beyond the confines of any single[...] Filed under: Campaigns, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG, RPG Hub
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We are so screwed… Box texted into the impossible
Last night, for four hours, we battled the imaginary. Yet another Keoland RPGA module, this time we nearly died fighting apparitions in our minds only to find out at the last encounter it was all in our heads, along with[...]Read on >>
three even quicker items
I'm slow as all heck, but all the characters from the Easy Peasy EC PC contest are finally available for viewing at scribd. Also at the official Encounter Critical yahoo group.Blair must've used his nefarious powers to [...]Read on >>
Cyclopedia + Forgotten Realms Original Set = Awesomeness
Doc Rotwang recently posted on his blog, I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow: The Voices Are Whispering Their Strange Maths To Me, about using the most excellent D&D Rules Cyclopedia with the Forgotten Realms setti[...]Read on >>
An Interview with Stargazer; Prolific blogger, amateur games designer and all round nice chap.
Things have been quiet on this blog lately, I haven’t posted for ages! Michael Wolf creator of Stargazer’s World Posts articles daily. Taking inspiration in this I asked him for an interview. Basically to kic[...]Read on >>
Races of Eden For NAA D6
Though you don’t have to use templates to play NAA D6, to capture that Eden flavor of a multitude of races good at different things, I recommend that prospective GMs enforce the selection of a racial template for o[...]Read on >>
Let’s Roll….(the dice that is!)
That song at the beginning of Borderlands, performed by Cage The Elephant, is definitely a fitting tune for this week. “Aint no rest for the wicked, money don’t grow on trees…I got bills to pay, I got m[...]Read on >>
Continuum 2010: Game Highlights
Continuum 2010. John Foster Hall, Leicester University. UK. Friday 2nd - Monday 5th July 2010. http://www.continuum.uk.netHere are some of the games already planned for this year’s convention. If your game isn&rsqu[...]Read on >>
Death Bed
aka Mortis MattressThis relative of the lurker and mimic looks like a four post bed of the comfy sort. The type one would use in conjunction with Cunard's Cozy Comforter of Restful Repose. It is, of course, a voracious [...]Read on >>
Good news for all Iron Kingdom fans!
I almost overlooked yesterday’s post at Purple Pawn. But then I scrolled back and read the headline again: “It’s Alive: The Iron Kingdoms RPG Lives!" I have to admit I had to rub my eyes and reread everything, [...]Read on >>
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