More Prep–More Props
I am a terribly lazy GM. If possible I try not to do any prep at all and usually rely on my improvisational skills to run my games. But this had led to...
September 15, 2016
Props
RPG a Day 2016: RPG Cribs – Day 30
So we come to this, day 30, the penultimate day of #RPGaDay 2016. So much fun! As I’ve said before, August has been a rollercoaster. Like last year, RPG a Day 2016 got...
August 30, 2016
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RPG a Day 2016: Hobby Mix & Match – Day 26
After today there are only five days to go on this year’s #RPGaDay 2016! August has paradoxically seemed to fly by in some ways and just drag on in others. I’m writing these...
August 26, 2016
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RPG a Day 2016: Favorite Inspiration for your Game Part 2 – Day 15
Another week begins, and a new set of posts for #RPGaDay 2016 challenge. Here’s hoping everyone had a great weekend. Let’s get going with today’s topic… August 15: What types or source of inspiration...
August 15, 2016
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Inkarnate Entertainment Team Interview
If you’re like me, your love for RPGs goes hand in hand with a love for maps. From the first time I read The Hobbit and the Dragonlance series, to when I first...
December 10, 2015
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RPG a Day 2015 Challenge – Day 22
As #RPGaDay2015 continues we venture today into a topic I thought I could write about endlessly, and then I couldn’t. If I just allowed my imagination flow I could come up with all...
August 22, 2015
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Sci-Fi Fridays! Wanderers of the Outlands Part XV
Week 15… I’ve written a lot for my sci-fi Savage Worlds campaign, as these Sci-Fi Fridays! post prove. This time around the information is immediately relevant to the players. This is the rest crew...
April 25, 2014
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Mass Transit IV Unpacking!
Some time ago I wrote about a Kickstarter I was backing Mass Transit IV Maps and More. I was really excited following the project, seeing him reach his goal and the stretch goals....
June 26, 2012
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Savage Worlds, playing The Wild Hunt (and a long winded retrospective…)
I have been intrigued by Savage Worlds ever since I first read about it. A system designed to be “fast, furious and fun”, without sacrificing the detailed character creation and the tactical aspects...
March 5, 2012
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 your portrait photos. Aside from being a perfect time...
June 15, 2011
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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 primer”, the way to introduce your campaign to your...
April 13, 2011
A font by any other name…
I don’t know about you, but I love collecting them. Ever since I got my first word processor I cherished the possibility of changing the font depending on the purpose of the document...
March 31, 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
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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
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Free Stuff Friday: A Death Certificate
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...
October 1, 2010
Trying something new…
I’ve never been particularly handy. I’ll write, talk in public, and I can tell a pretty good yarn (or so I’ve been told), but I’m not great with cars or home repair. I’ll...
August 25, 2010