✦ Category: Advice

Advice

March 31, 2009 • 4 min read

Guest post: Five Intelligent Magic Items for the Connoisseur

Over on my own blog, Exchange of Realities, I’ve been working on advice for creation, personality, interaction and plot hazards of intelligent magic items. But it can be hard…

By Ravyn

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Advice

March 30, 2009 • 1 min read

Starmap

Last week I started working on a SF campaign after my players told me that they wanted to play “something with space ships and…

By Stargazer

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Advice

March 25, 2009 • 1 min read

Dungeoncraft Links

I am currently working on transferring all of my saved bookmarks to delicious and tagging them properly. While doing so I stumbled upon two…

By Stargazer

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Music

March 22, 2009 • 1 min read

Roleplaying music: Into the Grey

Erdenstern has recently announced the release of their sixth album of their “Into the …” series. This time they venture into the worlds of…

By Stargazer

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Advice

March 20, 2009 • 2 min read

Avenger or Bard? What class should I play?

For our D&D 4th Edition game on Saturday we decided to create new characters using classes from the PHB2. My girlfriend was pretty unhappy…

By Stargazer

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Advice

March 17, 2009 • 4 min read

Converting videogames to the gaming table

Video games can be great sources for inspiration. Everyone who played games like the classic Ultima series, the Elder Scroll series, the Fallout series,…

By Stargazer

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Advice

March 16, 2009 • 1 min read

When in doubt, run a one-shot!

I am definately not a one-system person and when I run adventures in a setting for too long I tend to look for new…

By Stargazer

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Blogging

March 6, 2009 • 1 min read

Let the music play!

Today I replaced the Yahoo Music Player by a WordPress plugin called WordPress Audio Player that uses a small flash player to play mp3…

By Stargazer

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Advice

March 4, 2009 • 1 min read

The GM is not the enemy, or is he?

Today Penny Arcade posted another comic with a roleplaying theme called “The Old Ways“. I have been running roleplaying games as a GM for…

By Stargazer

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Reviews & First Looks

March 4, 2009 • 1 min read

Ye Olde Map Maker

You are in dire need of a dungeon map for your next adventure but you lack the artistic abilities to draw one by hand?Then…

By Stargazer

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Advice

March 2, 2009 • 6 min read

Wars in your fantasy campaign

This is a rerun, it was originally posted on January 28th, 2009. War is a sad constant in human history. So it isn’t surprising…

By Stargazer

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Advice

February 27, 2009 • 1 min read

Roleplaying City Map Generator

Some time ago I read about an awesome freeware city map generator for Windows. But alas the creator’s site  is down for quite some…

By Stargazer

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Advice

February 26, 2009 • 4 min read

So, you want to play a pulp genre game? Part 2

Last time we defined the pulp genre and I even recommended a few games worth checking out. And you probably guessed it that I…

By Stargazer

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Advice

February 19, 2009 • 1 min read

My first CC3 map

Yesterday I finally sat down to create my first map in Campaign Cartographer 3. I bought the software and played a bit around, but…

By Stargazer

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RPG tools

February 12, 2009 • 1 min read

Stargazer’s RPG Stuff

Inspired by fellow RPG blogger Zachary’s post “Using Google Sites For Your Campaign” I created a Google Sites site of my own that I…

By Stargazer

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Music

February 4, 2009 • 2 min read

Roleplaying music: Elyrion – Call of the Titans

In October I promised you a proper review of Erdenstern’s new CD “Elyrion – Call of Titans“. Their last work is not part of…

By Stargazer

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Advice

February 3, 2009 • 1 min read

Create custom fonts for free

Yesterday I stumbled upon an article on Lifehacker that could be of some interest to all GMs out there. The service YourFonts allows you…

By Stargazer

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Advice

January 30, 2009 • 6 min read

So you want to be a GM?

Every now and then a mere player decides he has to rise above his fellow men and become a gamemaster. And trust me, being…

By Stargazer

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Advice

January 26, 2009 • 4 min read

Five tips to improve your roleplaying

In my opinion there are a lot of people who mistake roleplaying games for miniature combat games. But what makes RPGs so much fun…

By Stargazer

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Advice

January 20, 2009 • 2 min read

“The pungent smell of mildew emanates from the wet dungeon walls…”

This posts’ title is a quote from the Dead Alewives’ famous “Dungeons & Dragons” sketch. When I recently listened to the sketch again this…

By Stargazer

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