Creighton’s Corner: Ending it All
May 13, 2012 from Game Knight Reviews
Filed under: Campaign, GM, Inspiration, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
In previous instalments of this series, we’ve talked a lot about preparing for and starting a new campaign, but we’ve spent no time thinking about how we should end a campaign. Lots of campaigns come to a natural hal[...] Filed under: Campaign, GM, Inspiration, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
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Combat in RPGs
A question to the audience.Do different styles of combat require different combat mechanics? Or is it possible for a single game system to portray widely disparate forms of combat coherently and in a way that make them w[...]Read on >>
Dragon by Dragon – October 1976
Three issues into The Dragon and we have our first sci-fi cover! What lies within? Well - not much sci-fi ...First up we have an editorial by Tim Kask about fantasy. He brings up at least one good point - your ability to[...]Read on >>
Worthy Cause: Karen Boomgarden, Former TSR Editor, Needs Our Help
Please read this post over at RetroRoleplaying. I realize that times are tough for everyone, but if you have anything you can spare to help out Ms. Boomgarden, even $5 or $10 could help. Plus you'll be helping out the Re[...]Read on >>
About Potentials [Expedition RPG]
I had a bit of a discussion on twitter about this with someone, so I thought I would clarify some of this subject. However I would like to preface this with one of my philosophies when I make my games. I make a lot of el[...]Read on >>
Skull and Shackles – Why Community and Open Licensing Are So Important
Paizo Publishing has started in on their next adventure path, the pirate-themed “Skull & Shackles.” They are supporting it well, with six books of adventure and rules material, the Isles of the Shackles [...]Read on >>
More One Page Dungeon Recommendations
Four more contest submissions I'm recommending.[...]Read on >>
Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: The Songstone – a Story Seed from Miroslav Gavrilov
(Editor’s Note: This week, Robert has shared his space with new Ancient Scroll contributor Miroslav Gavrilov!) The Pledge The latecomers entered the depths of the dwarven Dwellthrone fortress. They’d been individ[...]Read on >>
Yggdrasil, the Tree of Worlds (Wood Manse *****)
May 12, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub
From far enough away, Yggdrasil is just a big tree – mildly impressive, yes, but nothing more. It’s only when you get up close that it’s tremendous width really becomes apparent – and it’s only when you[...] Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub
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Using One Page Dungeons
In the Labyrinth Lord campaign I run for a good friend and his three kids plus his god son, I was using the Wildlands, the first region in Points of Light by Rob Conley.[...]Read on >>
Deviant Friday – Monsieur Fantasy Edition
Sir Jeremy JumblesI'm runnin' and gunnin' today trying to catch my breath after my company put on it's 17th annual Links for Life charity golf tournament at the historic (and very awesome) Las Vegas Country Club. It wa[...]Read on >>
Fleamarket Friday: Own A Manor For Less Than You Might Think…
The first issue of Tim Shorts' new 24-page, A5-sized 'zine, The Manor is available for purchase from his popular blog, Gothridge Manor, for the a mere $3.50 in the US. Canada is $4 and us folks in Europe and Australia ne[...]Read on >>
Fleamarket Friday: Chuck Some Dough At Dice Chuckers…
Who doesn't love a good documentary about roleplayers made by roleplayers? Dice Chuckers is the brainchild of well-known blogger Christian Lindke who explains that it is an "intimate look at those among us who play role [...]Read on >>
Cityographer Kickstarter
From the fine folks at Inkwell Ideas who brought us Dungeonographer, Hexographer, and the Coat of Arms Visual Designer comes... Cityographer:You set some preferences for the city you want (technology level, population s[...]Read on >>
The Gods of Aruneus – available today!
The latest Aruneus PDF has hit the streets! The Gods of Aruneus is available as of today, for $1.00 at Drive Thru RPG. Aruneus is a source book for the Pathfinder Role Playing Game detailing the world, politics, and live[...]Read on >>
Dwarf-Land: The Empire of Zoob
Scott of the Huge Ruined Pile remarked that the Empire of Zoob is one of the locations in his very cool Dwarf-Land that he was going to leave for individual DMs to develop. Given the information presented in S[...]Read on >>
Friday Knight News – Gaming Edition: 11-MAY-2012
May 11, 2012 from Game Knight Reviews
Filed under: 4e, design, dungeons & dragons, Game Design, GM, Inspiration, news, pathfinder, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub, Tools
Happy Friday everybody! Next week is my 42nd birthday (too many candles or the fire department will show up), which means I will be as old as the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of “Life, the Universe, and[...] Filed under: 4e, design, dungeons & dragons, Game Design, GM, Inspiration, news, pathfinder, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub, Tools
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DMRT: The Geek Ken Opinion – New Campaign Setting?
The folks over at 4 Geeks 4E have a pretty fun podcast covering different topics on D&D. One part of the Dungeon Master’s Round Table show is taking twitter questions... Read more »[...]Read on >>
Exalted – Stargate Command
May 11, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub
In Charles’s ongoing efforts to be nice to people, he wants to give them more room. In fact, he wants to give them the entire cosmos… The Mirror-Shattering Method can allow travel between realities, and thus [...] Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub
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Jade Regent – Night of Frozen Shadows, Session 4
Fourth Session (13 page pdf) – Trolls, ninjas, necromancers, statues – they all fall before our righteous wrath. We kill, and loot! And kill and kill and loot! Kill kill kill, loot loot loot… Most [...]Read on >>
Saints of Mavros: St. Whiteskull of Bratislor
The kobolds have been working hard on several projects (as usual). You can see some of the fruits of their past labor in today’s column, and you can join in on the fun of creating new fodder for your gaming table i[...]Read on >>
It’s Time To Team-Up…
In honour of Adamant Entertainment's forthcoming ICONS supplement - ICONS Team-Up - and as a follow-up to my recent piece on Grace Randolph's Top Ten Superhero Teams, I thought I'd sound you out on your favourite superhe[...]Read on >>
Championing the Imperfect
While I may sometimes take exception with or point out the parts of D&D that bother me, I love the game. I love the people who make it, who play it, who talk about it, those who agree and those who disagree with me. [...]Read on >>
Why Use a Character Change Log?
The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Character Change Log, Asparagus Jumpsuit’s first product for that game system, has garnered good reviews and I’m pleased with how it’s selling. A lot of people love it, b[...]Read on >>
Cheating is the natural state of play for those cheeky little gits called kids. Here’s why that’s okay, and why you should embrace it.
Cheeky Little Gits I’ve spent a fair amount of time lately creating games for kids, and playing games with kids – primarily my own two girls who are 6 and 9. I’ve come to the conclusion that the natur[...]Read on >>
Two Things You Should Buy
While I'm off today for a state holiday, so the easiest post I could imagine was to point you to some great stuff done by some of my favorite fellow bloggers.The Manor is a 'zine by Tim Shorts of Goth[...]Read on >>
App Review: Player Minion from Goathead Software
May 10, 2012 from Game Knight Reviews
Filed under: 4e, design, dungeons & dragons, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub, Tools
Though I’m late in coming to the 4E party, I’ve been enjoying my time and am currently playing my 2nd and 3rd 4E campaigns with Jason, Mark, and the rest of the gang. When I came into Mark’s campaign, I[...] Filed under: 4e, design, dungeons & dragons, Reviews, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub, Tools
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[L5R] Tournament of the Samurai Session Report
Legend of the Five Rings has long been on my bucket list of games I need to play before the machine uprising / alien invasion / zombie apocalypse. Several opportunities popped up over the years, but none of them actually[...]Read on >>
The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice LXX – The Djinn of the Lamp
May 10, 2012 from The Emergence Campaign Logs
Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub
Back at the museum, Matthew quietly took advantage of the press of other investigators – no longer restrained by his wards – to head out to get in touch with his Father and the rest of the House. He… ha[...] Filed under: Background, campaign log, exalted, RPG, RPG Hub
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Milestone: Post #800
800 seems like such a large number and I was frankly shocked to see the total in WordPress today. Actually, it was 799 so this post is technically the 800th post. When I founded the site four years ago I had reservatio[...]Read on >>
Tatters of the King: The Game Thread is Up!
Since some people have told me that they are having trouble with WordPress commenting, I decided to make a thread on DnDorks and do all character preparation there. This will let me have everything in once place, and wil[...]Read on >>
How Inserting Romance Can Feel Hopeless
I’ll open this with an invitation for GMs to post their own examples of how they inserted romance in their own role playing games. I don’t mean two players already married; that’s a cop-out. I’m talking about a h[...]Read on >>
Commenting As I Go (1PDC)
The criteria I'm using to compare the various contest submissions and four of my favorites from the first twenty that I've read.[...]Read on >>
No Assembly Required: Thurl Bal’zud, Cleric of Laduguer
Welcome to the May 2012 Edition of No Assembly Required, a monthly column that provides DMs with a detailed monster for a Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition campaign. The monster... Read more »[...]Read on >>
Infinite Crisis Management
Recapping our last session (this past Saturday) in the continuing saga of 'The New Age of Champions', Omni (Major NPC in charge of the UN sponsored superteam Project: UNITY) visits the heroes to get a sense of how they a[...]Read on >>
A Rose By Any Other Name…
Lara Pulver IS Rose ThorneLast night I had the privilege to be present at the birth of the latest member of our espionage team in Pete's Top Secret SI campaign.Meredith rendezvoused with Pete at Tuesd[...]Read on >>
Zenobia’s Monastery
Today we conclude the series of my old maps with one for a high level cleric in my AD&D game from long ago. This could be used as a temple the players need to visit...or assault if the cleric in charge is of an evil [...]Read on >>
The Gassy Gnoll: Ghouls Gone Wild (May of the Dead Blog Carnival)
May 9, 2012 from Game Knight Reviews
Filed under: dungeons & dragons, GM, Inspiration, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
Over the last few weeks I’ve been pondering all sorts of demented article titles for the May of the Dead blog carnival being hosted by The Going Last Gaming Podcast site throughout May 2012. Some of the possibiliti[...] Filed under: dungeons & dragons, GM, Inspiration, roleplaying, RPG, RPG Hub
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Trapsmith: The Gift of Greed
Trapsmiths trust in greed. Greed is what drives the adventurer into the dungeon, and greed is the thing that brings about their demise. The trap below might be placed in a location that serves as a gateway to later loc[...]Read on >>
Bedrock Games to release RPGPundit’s Arrows of Indra
We are pleased to announce that Bedrock Games and RPGPundit have teamed up to work on an exciting new project: Arrows of Indra. RPGPundit is the author of Forward…to Adventure!, Forward… to Adventure! Gamemaster&[...]Read on >>
Dungeon Crawl Classics Arrived Today
To quote Gurney Halleck from Dune, "Gods, what a monster!"I gave my first impressions as to the content when I got my hands on the pdf, but now that I have the physical hard copy in my hand, it's... BIG. Has the heft and[...]Read on >>
Character Creation for My Tatters of the King Play By Post
Alright, here are some more details for my summer game. I’ll be running it at http://forums.dndorks.com/ since I know the tools there, they have a dice roller, character sheets and DM tools, built in and they don’t m[...]Read on >>
No LAN play for Diablo III, Really
I was just settling down on deciding to buy Diablo III, because we love Diablo II so much around here, when I read there will be no LAN play support. Ack! Please tell me I read wrong! LAN play made the game so much fun, [...]Read on >>
The G*M*S Magazine Podcast RPG Edition Episode 42–Chronicle City with Angus Abranson
We come to episode 42 and we’re hoping this is the last episode with just Dale and myself. I am very pleased to say we are going to have more co-hosts in future episodes and they’re going to make the podcast really g[...]Read on >>
The State of Blood & Treasure
I get a few questions now and then about where Blood & Treasure stands in terms of completion. I'm going to answer them.First - my plan to include actual poisoned needle traps in the print books has run into some leg[...]Read on >>
Whither Knight City?
Following my short article at the end of last month about "goings on" with my old Knight City blog (which was the home for our old Villains & Vigilantes campaign), I have now put all the articles that were up th[...]Read on >>
“Getting Ready For College” Sale at Reality Blurs
The daughter of my good friend Sean Preston of Reality Blurs is graduating from high school next week. To celebrate the event and raise some funds to help pay for college after summer, Sean came up with a great sale. Th[...]Read on >>
My Kickstarter Experience
As my regular readers will know, I recently concluded a successful Kickstarter campaign for Adventures Dark and Deep: A Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore. The book is a version of my ADD game presented as a supplement for[...]Read on >>
30d30: Charts & Tables That Make the Most of Your Biggest Die
To me, “old school” is evocative of more than just a style of play. There was the thrill of finding new excuses to use weirdly-shaped dice. There was the fun of rolling on random tables, even when it wasnR[...]Read on >>
Acid Sands
Acid Sands Yes, it’s actual content! A hazard for Earth Delta. (I told you it’s not dead, just pining for the fjords.) Acid Sands There are many places in Earth Delta where caustic chemical wastes and industr[...]Read on >>
