Fun with Photofunia
On the German RPG Blog “Cthulhu’s Ruf” I read about Photofunia, a service that allows you to apply all kinds of interesting effects onto…
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“Spanish, Spanish, Spanish saving throw, Spanish”: Role-Playing in different languages
Recently I had a tweet exchange with Shaun and Michael about which language we role-played in, and Shaun wrote an excellent post about languages…
Communication Breakdown: Language in RPGs
The other night I got my hands on a copy of Rogue Trader, one of the Warhammer 40,000 role-playing games released by Fantasy Flight…
Castles & Crusades Unboxing
Based on recommendations from more than one friend and reviews I had been reading on the Internet, (or “tubes” as we say in Alaska) I…
Some advice for the new RPGBA members
When I woke up this morning I was amazed to see that the number of member sites with the RPG Blog Alliance almost doubled…
Pathfinder RPG Goodies: Venture Captain
As a confessed Pathfinderite (I don’t see that moniker catching on!) I am always on the lookout for new tools, ideas and goodies for…
Being a better Game Master: Credit where credit is due!
Being a Dungeon Master, Game Master, Storyteller, Referee, call it what you may, is not an easy task. It requires a lot in terms…
RPG Blogging 101: Be different!
As someone mentioned in the comments section of the second post in the series, the RPG blogosphere feels pretty saturated right now. The RPG…
Quick Tip on Creating Place Names
Earlier today I was trying to come up with a place name for a small area that I am working on for a “Secret…
Mutants & Masterminds 3rd Edition Gamemaster’s Kit Unboxing
This was a great weekend when my wife came home from a trip to the postoffice with my Green Ronin‘s Mutants & Masterminds (M&M)…
Building better characters
One of the most important steps when starting a new game is creating characters. If you are interested in the full roleplaying experience, creating…
RPG Blogging 101: Attracting Readers
So you’ve started your RPG blog but for some reason nobody is actually reading your stuff. Especially if you want people to read your…
RPG Blogging 101: Writing posts
Writing posts is actually the hardest part of running any blog. Everything else up to this point was mostly theoretical or technical stuff, but…
RPG Blogging 101: Let’s start at the beginning
So you want to start blogging about tabletop RPGs? Alas that’s easier said than done. Especially in the beginning you have to make a…
Review: Eternal Lies Suite
I love using music in roleplaying games since my first GM used the “Nightmare on Elm Street” soundtrack in a CHILL game he was…
Campaign Primer Ideas! Part 2
Now that I’ve started writing about this I can’t stop. Here is the thing, on a previous post I was musing about the “campaign…
RPG Blogging 101: Primer
For some time I have been pondering whether I should write a series of blog posts about my second favorite hobby: blogging about RPGs.…
Campaign Primer Ideas! Part 1
Fellow poster, and all around nice guy, Shinobicow (who also has a really cool nick, but I digress) wrote an excellent series of posts…
My homework for you today: try out a new game
Ok, you don’t have to do it today, but if you try out a new roleplaying game in the next six month at least,…
Minigames in roleplaying games
Recently I have started playing Sid Meier’s Pirates! again. Pirates! is a single-player, open world game set into the Caribbean during the late 16th…