Gaming fiction weal or woe?
Role playing games are so entrenched in their literary roots, from Beowulf to El Cantar del Mio Cid, from Howard’s Conan, to Tolkien’s Middle Earth that it is sometimes hard to separate one...
Role playing games are so entrenched in their literary roots, from Beowulf to El Cantar del Mio Cid, from Howard’s Conan, to Tolkien’s Middle Earth that it is sometimes hard to separate one...
The much quoted line in this post’s title is from a play you might have heard about, Romeo and Juliet, written by a Billy Shakespeare. This guy was old school, so much so...
One of the reasons I was interested in getting an iPad was to be able to use it as a PDF viewer since I own a lot of RPG-related PDFs. Initially I thought...
In February I previewed Chaotic Shiny Productions’ Kingdom Builder Generator Pack I which I helped to beta test back then. Some time ago Hannah Lipsky finished the new Kingdom Generator Pack II which...
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: A Death Certificate I think we can all agree that when a player characters dies in...
As a long time Game Master I like to try different ways of telling a story. My latest session serves as an example. The previous adventure had ended as the players set forth...
Stemming from my last post on fantasy product design a reader asked me to go into a little more depth with regards to market research for fantasy products. As they put it there...
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Character Sheets!!! Wizards of the cost Coast has created a slimed down...
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Dungeon Master’s Battle Screen The Dungeon Masters’ Battle Screen Free tool for helping D&D 4e Dungeon...
Please note that this post first appeared as a guest post on RPG Blog 2. As some of you probably know “Don’t Be A Dick” is also known as Wheaton’s Law. And even...
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff Is: Incompetech Graph paper Need some kind of graph paper to draw out your dungeon or just...
Hi there! This is Zachary Houghton from RPG Blog 2, stepping in for my buddy Michael and his pals at Stargazer’s World. This seems to be a week for GM advice, so I...
It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Synapse Synapse is a new RPG written by Greg Christopher. It was just made available last week...
Recent events in my life have me thinking about pets. Be they familiars, animal companions or summoned animals, whatever way your system of choice calls them, why do we feel the urge to...
Back in the day, when we were still young and had too much time on our hands, we played in long campaigns, sometimes even spanning years. But in recent years I haven’t finished...
I received and early copy of the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Red Box Fantasy Roleplaying Game Starter Set last week. It’s the first product to be released from the 4th edition Essentials...
I’ll admit it, naming non-player characters and places in role playing game is HARD! If you are not careful you’ll end up with names your players will make fun of for years to...