Seven Settings: Campaigns I’d Like to Run
A STACK OF SECRETSSeveral submissions for this month’s RPG Blog Carnival theme- "Campaigns I Want to Run" have surveyed multiple campaigns- wish lists of a sort. Some have been in established settings or used cla[...]Read on >>
Web Clip Wednesday: The Most Complicated Board Game Ever
You see and this why I don’t that many board games. Too many damned strange rules and DNA samples. Plus it takes so long to play. But seriously, I have friends who love board games. I got nothing against them so do[...]Read on >>
Episode Preview: Turncoat!
This article is a preview of the show topic for Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 09 Episode 20. The show will be recorded on Friday, May 24th at 8:30pm Pacific Daylight Time. You can listen live at happyjacks.org/live. As [...]Read on >>
GURPS Traveller Lite Game Session 01
Thanks to +Justin Sandock +Dave Morris and +Tom Tyson for making the GURPS Traveller Lite.We had a blast of a time and everyone did very well (people were rolling A LOT of 6s and 7s). I threw the[...]Read on >>
Discussion: When Do You Finalize Your Plot?
Early discussion for this week. Sorry, but I hurt my right wrist so typing is a bit more awkward than it normally is. My prompt for this discussion is when do you feel is best for finalizing the plot for your game? Now, [...]Read on >>
Warhammer Wednesday: Doomstones It Is
I've decided that if I get a chance to run anything at PortCon this year, it will be the beginning of the Doomstones campaign. I'm down to one month (or less) to prepare, and this is the latest game I have read. I have a[...]Read on >>
White Dwarf Wednesday #65
What was the RPG scene like 28 years ago? Tales of the RPG market in decline! Rules vs. Role-playing! New Star Trek! New stuff from Tolkien and Herbert! Hmm. Doesn't sound too different from today to be hones[...]Read on >>
More Micro Maps
A couple of weeks ago I posted a “micro map” that I drew because of the #micromapmonday thing. Thing… that’s …Continue reading » [...]Read on >>
A cool map
One of the sections of Columbia Game's release of the City of Cherafir is a description of the city's Alienage Quarter where foreigners and ships are allowed to freely enter and trade. What made this quarter unique in th[...]Read on >>
Reviews
I need to do more of them. I've got a small backlog of products I've been given or bought over the past few months I need to review. A few of them off the top of my head are +Zzarchov Kowolski's The Gnomes of[...]Read on >>
Prestigious Roles: Breaker
This pdf is 5 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving us with 2 pages of content, so what do we get? [...]Read on >>
Order of Black Earth: a player faction for Shadows over Vathak
The first player faction-offering for the Vathak-setting is 13 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving us with 10 pages of content, so let's take a look! [...]Read on >>
The Gassy Gnoll: The Impermanence of Thought and How To Use It to Beat the Block
The Gassy Gnoll has been tired lately and had far too much time to think when he should have been sleeping. This is hardly ever a good thing when it happens. But for some reason he’s been very philosophical and int[...]Read on >>
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Solar Winds
The sun dwells in constant turmoil. Massive storms rage across her surface as she burns with the fires of orc. She generates powerful magnetic fields that rise from her surface in gigantic loops, clawing into the dark re[...]Read on >>
Man of Steel Trailer #4
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Byzantium – Movie Trailer
This looks to be an interesting vampire piece; I always enjoy following the story over time, looks like Byzantium does it nicely. [...]Read on >>
Golden Feathers
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Now for something Completely Different – RPG
Now this is something you don't run across in the RPG world very often, something utterly differently. Spectrum Games has announced a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a role playing game where you play a cart[...]Read on >>
Fixing Plot Holes
The game I'm tinkering on for game chef is about jumping into a time-stream and correcting reality.It's just struck me....without too many spoilers, it's probably due to watching the season finale for the most recent Doc[...]Read on >>
Old Hat Monsters: Tribal Shaman
“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson In many tribal societies, the chieftain leads the social hierarchy (along with sometimes a council of elders), the hero leads war [...]Read on >>
Dangerous Encounter: I See You
For this encounter, the PCs will need to be tasked with locating some very special, very efficient medical assistance.One of PCs could be infected with a slow, but ultimately fatal disease.A powerful NPC could be s[...]Read on >>
half-life of gaming lust
After flirting with several different game systems lately, I am now conducting a scientific experiment: how long will it take for me to get sick of Vampire: the Requiem, and by implication, other games that I get momenta[...]Read on >>
Tuesday Magic Item – Strawberry of Desire
Some foods are rare and only found in the most magical and unusual places. One such place located on a high plateau, is said to be the garden of the goddess of desire that fell to Earth with her death, where it is [...]Read on >>
You Can’t Be Wrong
So a while back I mentioned I was going to something big and fun near the end of May?Well looks like it is coming faster than I thought.Gotta get ready![...]Read on >>
Prose Descriptive Qualities
There are days when you are in the mood for serious epic adventure, be it fantasy, science fiction, or modern day setting. Then there are the days when you just want to play the silliest character you can imagine.&[...]Read on >>
Porphyry – Initial Thoughts
Over the weekend I was able to peruse through a copy of Porphyry - World of the Burn and form a few thoughts. I don't play Tunnels & Trolls so I'll just be pilfering from this as a setting book.The setting is a[...]Read on >>
Wikipedia is the DMs Friend: Medieval Demographics
Most (A)D&D worlds are generally sparse in population, with but a single village in an entire 30-mile hex, if that. Many find that sort of emptiness unsatisfying from an historical perspective, and seek to beef up th[...]Read on >>
Adventures Dark & Deep (1.5E-ish) Bestiary Kickstarter
Joseph Bloch is back with his latest volume in a series of books that imagines–based on Gary Gygax’s public comments and articles–what AD&D 2E might have been like. (So I personally like to think of[...]Read on >>
Fantasy Dice Ruleset Video – Part 1
I’ve uploaded the first video for how to use the Fantasy Dice ruleset for the Fantasy Grounds II virtual tabletop software. The ruleset will be released first for backers of the Crimson Exodus 2nd Edition kickstar[...]Read on >>
Castle Greyhawk: Journeys End?
Hola Greyhawk fans! I'm afraid I got behind (as usual) in promoting the latest page, thirty-four of our long running Castle Greyhawk graphic novel. Follow the link to read bonus ma[...]Read on >>
Riots, Carracks, Celestial Plays and Rolling Back the Weird
And now the News... “Ole Wampus” Bartol, captain of the Canton-flagged carrack _The Ocular Bat_, was overheard in a hu'uz hallucinogenic stupor roaring—between exclamations of “everything is so [...]Read on >>
The Gathering
This weekend I believe we are going to have the whole gaming crew face to face. We were talking about renting a meeting room at a local hotel so we could gather with some space and comfort. None of us has the[...]Read on >>
Repost: Fixing Modules
There is lots of stuff online for experienced players, but what about all of those new DM’s out there that are learning by fire? WELL GOD BLESS YOU!!! I honestly don’t know how you do it, I was lucky and[...]Read on >>
Original Art Reward Now Available
Thanks to the generosity of one of our artists, there is a new reward level now available for the Adventures Dark and Deep™ Bestiary Kickstarter:ORIGINAL ART SPONSOR: You get your name listed in the Bestiary as th[...]Read on >>
Anybody want a cloth map for their campaign world?
I ask because zazzle.com will let you put your graphic on a towel and that ought to get the job done. I've wanted a cloth map of a campaign world of mine going back to when I opened my shiny new copy of Ultima IV.&[...]Read on >>
Reveiw: Castles & Crusades Monsters
I love monsters. I love monster books. My first introduction to AD&D was via the 1st ed Monster Manual and I was instantly hooked. So these tomes always have a special place in my heart.Castles & Crusades a[...]Read on >>
We still need Booth Volunteers!
We still have a few slots open in the booth schedule. What for? We need volunteers for the ENnies booth at Gen Con this year! How long will it take? Each shift is two hours and we like to have two peo[...]Read on >>
Commissions for May 2013 and a facepalm
Its been a while since I posted commission work. All of these are for my friend Jacob M. The first mini is a halfling. I had initially thought of going with a more green theme for the cloak. However, after talking with J[...]Read on >>
[HOUSERULES] Corruption Redux…
Whilst I am determined to keep houserules to a minimum for my planned Castles & Crusades campaign next year, some will be included to help create the flavour of the world.In the world of Tekralh, magic is wild ener[...]Read on >>
Sources of Inspiration: End to End
I love to use fairy tales as an inspiration for my games. Ralph, the talking chicken, was a prince transformed by a witch's curse. Rumpelstiltskin served as inspiration for a bargained child tale. Given this, I'm always[...]Read on >>
Recounting Encounters with Storm Over Neverwinter author Erik Scott de Bie
Today Dungeon’s Master and 20ft Radius are proud to present a special episode of our podcast, Recounting Encounters. In this episode we talk to Erik Scott de Bie, author of this season’s adventure Storm Over [...]Read on >>
Weapons and Armour in Risus
Hear me out. I don't want gear lists for Risus. I don't want a bunch of modifiers and special rules for specific weapons. It isn't that sort of game. Risus already has a perfectly fine rule in place for handling equipmen[...]Read on >>
Gaming Inspiration :The Diseased
This idea didn't come from a cartoon like most of my other Gaming Inspirations do. However, I think our settings, our flavor text, need to include more sick and diseased townsfolk. Most games have healers, clerics, [...]Read on >>
[Tuesday Map] Darkling Depths Level 2
May 21, 2013 from A Character for Every Game
Filed under: dungeons & dragons, Labyrinth Lord, RPG, RPG Hub
The MegaDungeon Continues! Level 2 of the Darkling Depths is broken up into three distinct areas. The main complex of …Continue reading »
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Wushu Open by Daniel Bayn kicks bottom – through a window on fire
I jump, grab a red paper light fitting, swing across the room and boot the first mook through a flowery paper wall, I roll with the momentum over a sloshing fish tank and connect my fist into the face of another. Wushu [...]Read on >>
Daily Cosplay
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Walking Dead Spoilers
The 4th season doesn't begin until October of this year (as fast as time flies, its already October) but shooting for the next season has begun. As you may remember the season ended with the grand battle between the two [...]Read on >>
Angry Birds Alight in Movie Near You
As you may or may not have heard, Angry Birds is coming to the big screen. A 3d film is planned for release in 2016. Angry birds of course is the wildly popular video game/everything else that spread about the universe a[...]Read on >>
