✦ Category: Fluff/Inspiration

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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D6

March 31, 2009 • 2 min read

Theseus Class Medium Starfighter

As I mentioned before I am working on a SF campaign setting for d6 Space. One of the things my players requested were space…

By Stargazer

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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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D6

March 20, 2009 • 2 min read

“Game over, man”

That’s probably one of the most well known quotes from the movie Aliens, one of my personal favorite SF movies. The sequel of the…

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 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 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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Dungeonslayers

February 9, 2009 • 2 min read

Map for my Dungeonslayers campaign

Since my group wants to continue playing Dungeonslayers, I’ve decided to create a small campaign world to play in. It’s nothing fancy of course…

By Stargazer

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Dungeoncraft

February 2, 2009 • 4 min read

Dungeoncraft: New Races for Asecia

The last time I wrote about Asecia I planned to use the FATE rules and I decided against non-human races. But in the end…

By Stargazer

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Dungeoncraft

January 16, 2009 • 3 min read

Dungeoncraft: Ad Astra #2

In my last Dungeoncraft post I promised some details on the history of the “Ad Astra!” universe. My initial idea was to present my…

By Stargazer

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Call of Cthulhu

December 15, 2008 • 2 min read

A Colder War

While looking for some inspiration for a Call of Cthulhu adventure I stumbled upon Charles Stross’ short story “A Colder War“. The story is…

By Stargazer

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Advice

December 8, 2008 • 3 min read

Boardgames and Roleplaying

There are quite a few boardgames or miniature skirmish games with elaborate background stories that almost beg to turned into a roleplaying game. In…

By Stargazer

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Fluff/Inspiration

November 17, 2008 • 4 min read

Monotheistic religions in roleplaying

Usually most roleplaying game backgrounds feature polytheistic religions like the classic D&D pantheon. You have several gods that are responsible for certain domains like…

By Stargazer

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Dungeoncraft

November 13, 2008 • 4 min read

Dungeoncraft: Asecia reboot

During the last few months I have been working on a campaign setting called “Asecia”. The development of this world has been documented in…

By Stargazer

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Dungeoncraft

October 28, 2008 • 2 min read

Dungeoncraft: The Future of Asecia

In the last few weeks I wrote about my campaign world Asecia, its people, nations, history, magic, religion, secrets and even provided you with…

By Stargazer

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D&D4e

October 21, 2008 • 1 min read

The Lost Continent Illyria

Some time ago our fellow RPGBlogger Philippine Gamer has posted about a D&D 4th Edition campaign setting a member of his gaming group, R.…

By Stargazer

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Fluff/Inspiration

October 20, 2008 • 2 min read

Heroes’ Guild

The video game “Fable” featured a “Heroes’ Guild” that was a center of learning an training for Heroes for hire. In the game the…

By Stargazer

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Fluff/Inspiration

October 8, 2008 • 4 min read

No capes!

Capes, costumes, secret identities are the common tropes of the superhero genre. But there are people who think that adult men and women clad…

By Stargazer

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Fluff/Inspiration

October 6, 2008 • 5 min read

Tales of Asecia

“Tales of Asecia” is a short story (or a start of something more, who knows…) set into the world of Asecia I wrote some…

By Stargazer

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Dungeoncraft

October 6, 2008 • 5 min read

Dungeoncraft: Winds Of Change

The world of Asecia is a world constantly in the flux. That’s true in several ways. The campaign I am planning will start with…

By Stargazer

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