So we ran our first skill challenge…
First off, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving on Thursday, and a great long weekend. I was able to gather the group on Sunday for our game, and almost everyone managed to make it… if everyone who plays we[...]Read on >>
Handling Human Encounters
December 2, 2008 from The Verbing Noun
Filed under: Advice/Tools, Featured!, RPG Hub, gm tips, player tips
Humans, it would seem, would be the easiest sort of encounter to handle. Certainly, everyone who plays D&D with any real capability is at least human in some regard, feykin and furries included, if it's that sort of[...] Filed under: Advice/Tools, Featured!, RPG Hub, gm tips, player tips
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Gnome Stew: Lessons From The Long Campaign
Hello, My most recent article on the The Lessons From The Long Campaign: Delivering the Goods, has posted on Gnome Stew. In this edition I talk about how to deliver the climax of your Epic campaign. Go and take a loo[...]Read on >>
Impressions: Wilderness of Mirrors
Wilderness of Mirrors is John Wick’s take on what a spy roleplaying game. I love the fact that it was basically written on a dare: a couple of his friends were working on house rules for Spycraft when he commentted[...]Read on >>
ROUNDUP - RPG Bloggers Network Carnival - Religion
So it’s that time again when the carnival rolls up it’s ‘for One Month Only’ signs, puts the clowns back in their boxes and moves on to pastures new. The next carnival can be found over at Critica[...]Read on >>
How to talk to non-gamers about playing RPGs
For many gamers, talking to non-gamers about playing RPGs can be an embarrassing subject. Some people will give you strange looks. Some will poke fun at you. You never know what to expect. For that reason, a lot of gamer[...]Read on >>
Roleplay better by being personally accountable…
I've been doing a lot of reading on management-style topics lately as a result of my new job, and after you read several different books in rapid succession you start seeing patterns. One such pattern is that of persona[...]Read on >>
Word of Wizards - Excerpts: City of Brass
Manual of the Planes Excerpts: City of BrassA new month and a new excerpt! This time the Manual of the Planes goes to one of the most iconic cities in every edition of the D&D cosmology; the City of Brass.In 4E, the city[...]Read on >>
Don’t Feed the Gamers: Dave’s Picks, Week of November 23rd
Welcome to another edition of DFtG. This week seemed a bit lighter to me (despite generating around 200 posts), probably due to the holiday here in the states. Surprising to me, there seemed to be just as much digital in[...]Read on >>
My D&D 4e Character Sucks! How Do I Fix It?
So, you created your Dungeons & Dragons 4e character. You’re ready to rock and roll in your DM’s new campaign. A couple sessions in though, you’ve realized your character isn’t quite as good as your thought h[...]Read on >>
Bedtime Adventure: Enter Cartain!
This series chronicles my Interactive Storytelling bedtime stories with my kids. Today is a chronicle of the short session I had with Rory, my 5 year old daughter. Chatty: So sweetie, do you want to try making a story[...]Read on >>
RPGSeek–A Human-Verified Role-Playing Game Publisher Search Engine
RPGSeek is a custom Google search engine that only searches a specific list of 371 role-playing publisher websites. I culled these sites from the combined publisher lists of indiepressrevolution.com, rpgnow.com, drivet[...]Read on >>
How to Ruin A Perfectly Good Subsector
November 28, 2008 from Jeff's Gameblog
Filed under: Encounter Critical, Featured!, Old School, RPG, RPG Hub, Traveller
As we all know, Encounter Critical can be used for any sort of role play adventure. Any setting from any rpg, wargame, book, film, TV show, comic, play, wrestling promotion, toy line, or cereal box can be used as the ba[...] Filed under: Encounter Critical, Featured!, Old School, RPG, RPG Hub, Traveller
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The Holiday Gaming Hiatus
This post was originally written, on Nov 30 of last year. I am re-posting it as part of my Thanksgiving Leftovers. The timing of this article is releveant, even if some of the references in it are now a bit dated. [...]Read on >>
AdventureWishlist
Added Uresia: Grave of Heaven[...]Read on >>
An Adventurer’s Guide To Thanksgiving Survival
November 27, 2008 from Geek's Dream Girl
Filed under: Featured!, Geek Life, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Ever wanted to see Thanksgiving from the point of view of an adventurer? What do you need to roll to save for tryptophan? What’s the DC on the Diplomacy check needed to convince y[...] Filed under: Featured!, Geek Life, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
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Splug
November 26, 2008 from The Gamer Dome
Filed under: 4e, Featured!, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons, roleplaying
Probably the biggest hit of our Keep on the Shadowfell game was Splug. Splug was a captive goblin found on the first level of the Keep’s dungeon, being held by hobgoblins for some unknown reason. The characters did[...] Filed under: 4e, Featured!, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons, roleplaying
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Is D&D A Product of the Midwest?
I was rereading Atlas Games' 40 Years of Gen Con when I came across the following quote from James M. Ward: "D&D's a product that always looking at the hero, and at doing good. That's very much a Midwestern "work[...]Read on >>
Bedtime Campaign: The Sword of Dreams, Part 1
This post is part of a series where I made the going to bed story of my son into a free form roleplaying game. See the first post here and the whole series here. While I’ve been doing Interactive stories with my[...]Read on >>
Impressions: Houses of the Blooded
On Saturday morning at RinCon I got the opportunity to play Houses of the Blooded run by it’s author, John Wick. I’ve been a fan of John’s work since 7th Sea, and have followed his Wicked Dead stuff wit[...]Read on >>
Don’t Feed the Gamers: Phil’s Picks, Week of November 16th
Another week at RPGblogers Central where we’ve seen a few reviews, cool Skill challenges, some Virtual Tabletop gaming and another flareup around the Edition Wars. Lets get into it now shall we? But first a shout[...]Read on >>
Gamer Charities
Gamers for Humanity organizes drives to collect board and card games, as well as food items, to donate to shelters and crisis houses. They have a drive going on in Iowa City right now. (source) Toys for Tots, organized [...]Read on >>
NewbieDM Tutorial - Counters, Tokens, or Pogs
I’m going to make my first attempt at making a tutorial here, and try to show you how I make my D&D tokens. It’s not as simple as cutting out little papers or cardstock, I like to make them durable and [...]Read on >>
Review: “Martial Power”
Martial Power is the newest player-centric sourcebook for D&D 4e. It contains more options for the four martial classes (FIghter, Ranger, Rogue, and Warlord.) Each class gets new class feature options, paragon paths,[...]Read on >>
Help a child. Get a gaming tool.
A bit over a year ago, I mentioned the XO laptop as a possible gaming tool. Amazon is once again having their Give-1, Get-1 offer where you spend $399 and get two XOs - one for yourself and one which is shipped to a chil[...]Read on >>
So You Wanna Be a RPG Blogger: Doing It For Fun
So you’ve taken the plunge and become an RPG Blogger. You’ve picked out a really cool blog name. You’ve installed Wordpress, or got a Blogger or LiveJournal account or something so you’ve got the [...]Read on >>
Skill Challenges #5: Kobolds Ate My Baby!
Courtesy of the Skill Challenge Request Line — Eric, this is for you! Scenario: Kobolds have kidnapped a group of children from the village the PCs are currently in. The players must gather information to find o[...]Read on >>
D&D 4e: New Encounters
November 19, 2008 from Critical Hits
Filed under: 4th edition, Featured!, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
I began putting together some new Encounter group templates that can be used to expedite your game planning and hopefully present your players with some new experiences and challenges. I've also listed some suggestions a[...] Filed under: 4th edition, Featured!, RPG, RPG Hub, dungeons & dragons
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Martial Awesome
I’ve got my copy of Martial Power from Amazon, which I preordered about a month ago. I spent the entirety of the time after work devouring the book, and wanted to share my impressions with you. Everyone shou[...]Read on >>
D&D 4E to Star Wars Creature Conversions
One area where Star Wars: Saga Edition could use some help are its creatures. There are certainly a number of them out there, particularly the iconic ones from the movies, but the system tends to come up a little shor[...]Read on >>
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