When your campaign has jumped the shark
Sometimes I get the feeling that my love for epic stories has got the best of me. And usually when I push my roleplaying campaigns to epic extremes I shortly thereafter notice that...
June 16, 2009
Advice
Review: Into the Grey
The German band Erdenstern is known for their “Fantastic music for the adventure in your mind”. Their albums were mainly created with the use at the game table in mind. Five of their...
May 28, 2009
Face Your Manga
Ok, this post is not really RPG related but it might be interesting to all you bloggers, forum users and in fact everyone who needs a digital representation of him- or herself aka...
May 26, 2009
Guest post: Use Your Weaknesses
Stargazer and I chat regularly on Google Talk. He’s a pretty cool guy to talk to and our conversations almost always spur me to think about something new. Earlier this week, we were...
April 29, 2009
Creating an old-school map in GIMP
As you probably remember, the One-Page Dungeon Contest hosted by fellow RPG bloggers ChattyDM and Chgowiz in on. Some people have already started sending in their dungeons, others (like me) are still working...
April 27, 2009
Another take on magic items
In most campaign settings magic items are made on purpose. There’s some blacksmith that forges a sword with great skill that is then infused with magic by a wizard. Sometimes they are created...
April 10, 2009
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 to make a magic item from whole cloth, so...
March 31, 2009
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 of links that could be interesting to you if...
March 25, 2009
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 SF and Cyberpunk with “Into the Grey”. Here’s an...
March 22, 2009
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 with the Warlord she played before and I wanted...
March 20, 2009
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, one of the Final Fantasy games or Mass Effect...
March 17, 2009
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 things to try out. Of course it’s almost impossible...
March 16, 2009
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 many years now and especially in my early years...
March 4, 2009