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Common Roleplaying Mistakes That Players Make – Part 1 of 2

We’re going to cover some of the common roleplaying mistakes that players make. This is not intended to be an all encompassing list. The goal is to make you aware of some of the universal mistakes that we all make when roleplaying. Sometimes just being aware of what mistakes there are too be made...

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Mutants and Mastermind: Hacking it so I can play it

Philippe - Always use your powers for Good. Steve Kenson Gen Con 2008 That’s what’s written in the inner cover of my copy of Mutants and Masterminds 2nd ED. I bought it at the Green Ronin booth on the last day at Gen Con last summer and when I saw that the author was behind the [...]

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System Generator for Mongoose Traveller

I've updated my online system generator for Traveller to use the new Mongoose rules. Please check it out and let me know if you see any problems or have any ideas for improvement. I also found some probable errors in the rules while I was doing this. The requirement for Non-industrial...

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The Girliest Nerdlette’s Christmas Wishlist

I'm blissfully yammering along with them when one of them looks my way and says, "What are you hoping to get from Santa?"

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So you mean that’s what I was fighting? hmmmm….

Being a new player I don’t always have a very clear sense of what my enemies look like. You could call it mystery but really it’s just inexperience. The other day my husband and I purchased the new Martial Power book for 4e. He’s been reading parts to me and having a great time...

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Wushu overview/review

I ran my first game of Wushu last night. If you're not familiar with Wushu, it's a wuxia emulating system that rewards description and over-the-top narrative accounts to resolve conflict. One of the important features of the system is called The Principle of Narrative Truth. What a player says...

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A little late, but a little fixed as well.

My thanks to Graham and Rev. Mike for pointing out various flaws and errors on my part. Let it be known that Irespond just as well to constructive criticisms, as I do to random floggings : ) Here are the corrected three, and a couple of skeletal Dinosaurs from an upcoming part of the game,...

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Word of Wizards - Digital Insider #17: Beta and Playtests

Digital Insider #17: Beta and PlaytestsJust when I thought that Randy Buehler won't be able to make his final address, here it is and he sounds very optimistic given the circumstances.There are no mentions of his dismissal from the job but he has offer...

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Vampire? Seriously?

I've been struck lately, in between working on my sandbox thing, by a weird interest in all things World of Darkness. These things come and go--at one point I was fascinated by Promethean, and I even went through a brief period where I was into Exalted...

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Giddyap Rhino

Over the weekend, while visiting my parents in Maryland for Thanksgiving, Angela and I were able to skip down to DC for a bit. We poked our head in to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, where we spent most of our time in the prehistoric mammals exhibit. Prehistoric mammals are pretty darn...

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Rifts Session Nine: Pterodactyls, Naruni Agents, and Another Casualty

Image via WikipediaThis week's session started with a simple objective: get away from Char and closer to Atlantis. The first event to slow down the trip was a visit by a pair of Naruni Repo-Bots. These intimidating enforcers showed up for payment, but instead of demanding a cash sum they...

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I Winz Teh B00k! Huzzah!

Look! It’s my name in boldface font! Jonathan at The Core Mechanic promised someone would be winning a free copy of the RPG Blog Anthology when it comes out… all you had to do was nominate some specific blog entries for consideration in the finished product and you would be entered in a...

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Poll: Which new 4E class are you looking forward to most and why?

So Wizards has posted information on the 4E Barbarian, Bard, and Druid. The Barbarian is available to the public here while the Bard and Druid are only available to D&DI subscribers. You can read my review of the Bard and Druid here and here, respectively. With all the information available,...

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Recent Layoffs at Wizards of the Coast

Losing your job sucks. I know this from personal experience. While I am thankfully among the gainfully employed now, I was part of a “Reduction in Force” about two years ago. It had nothing to do with my job performance, or anything else unde...

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Bait and Switch

This month, the RPG Blog Carnival topic is “Transitions and Transformations,” so I’d like to talk a little about Baiting and Switching campaign premises in RPGs. The basic idea, seductive in its simplicity, is that you emulate a common staple of fantastic fiction where the...

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Marvel Super Heroes netbook: Greywulf addendum edition

I’m really enjoying Greywulf’s Marvel Super Heroes series of posts, and it made me nostalgic for the old game. I had already gone over to the Classic Marvel page and downloaded most of the stuff I found there, plus a bunch of other stuff I found around the Web, but I happened to see a...

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The vote is in!

73 of you voted on your favorite classic game system and the results are in!#1 1e AD&D 25%#2 TFT/Melee/ Wizard 18%#3 D&D 1e 18%#4 Traveller 16%#5 OD&D 13%#6 Basic Role-playing system 5%#7 Tunnels & Trolls 5%AD&D(1e) came out on top and suprising to me...

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Swing. Hit. Swing. Hit….Really?

You know, I have no beef with World Of Warcraft, Guild Wars, or any of these MMOs, but I swear if I have to deal with one more player bringing MMO-style play to my game table, I’ll kick them out faster than they can say “D20″. The roleplaying facet of games is declining at a rapid...

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135 NOMINATIONS, 14 REVIEWERS, and 1 WINNER!!!

Below you will find a list of all 135 RPG blog posts that have been nominated to the 2008 Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs. The submission deadline for nominations, surveys, and volunteering was Monday, December 1st. 42 people made nominations,... ...

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Word of Wizards - Staff Layoffs

Christmas is the time of the year when we spend the rest of the year with our families happily knowing that our lives are secured and settled for the year and the year to come. This is not so for some of us this year.This morning I received some shocki...

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Computers and Gaming: Part 2

The use of computers as a gaming aid is complex subject. There are those that believe that the use of computer is at best a distraction and at worst a serious enough issue to have computers banned from the table. There are those that wouldn’t play a game without one. As for myself, I tend to fall...

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RPG Blogging Tools I: Intro, Hosting, & Platform

Mad Brew begins his three part essay, RPG Blogging Tools, with an introduction to RPG Blogging, hosting choices, and various blogging platforms. He welcomes the RPB Blogging community to chime with their experiences, preferences, and tips.

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Marvel RPG Week Day Three: Revelation

Imagine, if you will, that there somehow existed a resource which listed the complete game stats, origin and information about the heroes of your childhood. Imagine being able to look up and compare the relative strengths of each, and even somehow actually use that information right in your...

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Perception, Reality, and Writing RPGs

The theme of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival (hosted by Critical Hits) is Transitions and Transformations. It’s a pretty wide-open topic that suggests many different things to me, so I may write multiple posts on the topic over the course of the month. Today I want to talk about...

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Moving Past Gamer ADD

This month's Blog Carnival topic is Transitions & Transformations. With that in mind, today, I'm going to be discussing how to transition past a case of Gamer ADD. What is Gamer ADD?: Gamer Attention Deficit Disorder, or Gamer ADD, is a term used by many gamers to describe the behavior...

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The End of Wizards’ Online Ambitions

News of layoffs at Wizards of the Coast are all over the net but no has noticed how many online related staff have gone. Amongst those going are the VP of digital gaming, a director of digital games and the online community manager. I suspect that a lot of grunt staff on the D&D Insider and...

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Picking the Perfect Dungeons and Dragons Name

Picking a good Dungeons and Dragons name for your character, whether a PC or an NPC can be a challenge. For run of the mill NPC’s there are name generators available that can help with the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website...

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To Lead By Inspiration

Yesterday, I talked about the three approaches to leadership. But just glancing over them isn’t going to be enough to get across how the individual types work, so let’s look into them a little more closely. As I pointed out, the most commonly written leader is the leader by...

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Lead Toy Soldiers

A few days ago I put together some thoughts about the plastic toy soldiers of my youth. For me, lead toy soldiers were what I gravitated to when I realised there was something better (if more expensive) than the plastic Airfix soldiers I cut my teeth on. Moving to the present day and more in [...]

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Twenty Iconic Monsters

I got to thinking the other day about what I would do if I was ever asked to pare D&D's monster list down to twenty. No particular reason, I just thought it would be an interesting experiment. I didn't give it much thought, just banged out the first on...

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