The time I almost quit gaming!
I guess we’ve all had it. That time where you get frustrated with gaming, throw your arms up and say forget this, I’m not playing anymore… Especially if you’ve been playing for a...
February 21, 2011
Advice
World Building Part 9 – The Don Draper School of World Immersion
Hey everyone, before I get into this weeks post, I wanted to go ahead and let everyone know that this month, the RPG Blog Carnival is up and running. The host for this...
February 18, 2011
Free Stuff Friday: Mutants & Masterminds Character Sheets
This week’s Free Stuff is: Mutants & Masterminds: Character Sheets Character Sheets for Mutants & Masterminds. On The Green Ronin Website They Wrote This Stuff up: Character sheets for the third edition of...
February 11, 2011
Character advancement the hard way
Back in the day, when we still played games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition, character advancement was more than just picking new skills and talents, or improving the stats. Often the characters...
February 7, 2011
World Building Part 8 – Kicking Off Your Homebrew Setting Campaign
Today I want to take a little bit of a break from talking about creating your world and shift a little bit towards the actual use of that campaign setting for gaming (that...
February 4, 2011
Free Stuff Friday: DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook Errata
This week’s Free Stuff is: DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook Errata Did you know that Green Ronin released Errata for the DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook? They did! Best of all it’s FREE! On The...
February 4, 2011
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It’s a good time to be a supers fan!
Warning: This post is a mixed bag, part reflection on my current campaign and the lessons I’ve learned from it, part an overview of recent sources of inspiration and sharing a handout I’ve...
February 3, 2011
World Building Part 7 – Inside your NPC’s Heads
One of the ways to flesh out and develop your world is to look at it through the eyes of the people living there. If you are playing your world as you build...
January 28, 2011
Making NPCs come alive!
After bashing NPCs on a previous post I think this time around I’ll show them some love. I won’t claim the advice I’m going to give is wholly original. It’s the collected wisdom...
January 26, 2011
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Letting go of that NPC
Attention: Slight rambling ahead, with a point to make about RPGs somewhere in there, you have been warned! I recently finished reading the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson (that’s the girl with the...
January 24, 2011
World Building Part 6 – Get Smart, Get Sneaky
There is something my mama always used to tell me, “There is nothing new under the sun.” It has been said before, but I will say it again. Steal EVERYTHING. I don’t mean...
January 21, 2011
Bridging the Gap part II
Back again with another tip on using something from a newer game in an older one. One of the biggest problems in most games has to be how the party got together and how...
January 20, 2011
World Building Part 5 – Macro meets Micro
I want to advise going against both using micro and macro world building alone and actually combine both of these techniques into a happy middle ground.
January 14, 2011
Bridging the Gap
There is a lot of animosity between the old-school and new-school gaming groups. A lot of this I think is unnecessary. I mentioned briefly in my introduction that I am more of an...
January 10, 2011
World Building Part 4 – Campaign Setting Genre
Last week, I took a short break from this series because of travel and the holidays, but I am back this week to talk about the genre that your game world is going...
January 7, 2011
[Horror] Take Your World and Break It
One of the most powerful ways to run a modern day horror campaign is to take the familiar and start blending in a little bit of strange. The differences don’t have to be...
January 5, 2011
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What about the GameMastery Plot Twist Cards? A review… (And slight ramble!)
With such a convoluted title to this post, I better make some sense out of this! What is this post? First and foremost a review of the GameMastery Plot Twist Cards… What are...
January 4, 2011