How we buy games… A retrospective!
This week I purchased some digital RPG supplements in PDF, pre-ordered a book, and I got home today (Saturday) from the Puerto Rico Comic Con (shameless plug) to find a box from Amazon...
May 23, 2011
Random musings
RPG Blogging 101: Be different!
As someone mentioned in the comments section of the second post in the series, the RPG blogosphere feels pretty saturated right now. The RPG Bloggers Network alone has over 300 member blogs and...
May 17, 2011
The pros of Cons!
Last weekend I attended a convention. This was not a gaming convention per se; we haven’t had that down in Puerto Rico to the best of my knowledge. I remember hearing about a...
May 12, 2011
Weird West Roleplaying Game
A couple of days ago Stuart Robertson released his extremely rules-light “Weird West Roleplaying Game”. Like the name suggests its meant for “weird western worlds of cowboys, kung-fu, magic and otherworldly malevolence”. For...
May 5, 2011
What about Advanced Feats: The Inquisitor’s Edge? A review…
All good things must come to an end! Such is the case with the Advanced Feats PDFs, a great series of supplements for the classes introduced in the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Handbook....
May 4, 2011
Help a friend…
A friend, fellow member of Puerto Rico Role Players and all around swell guy Rallaster, has been working on new base classes for the Pathfinder RPG. I’ve been looking over his creations, the...
May 3, 2011
What’s going on at the RPMN?
UPDATE: Berin decided it was the best to go along with his initial plan and close the RPMN. As you know I usually don’t rant on this blog, but sometimes there are things...
May 2, 2011
Building better characters
One of the most important steps when starting a new game is creating characters. If you are interested in the full roleplaying experience, creating your character is much more complex than just “picking...
April 28, 2011
RPG Blogging 101: Attracting Readers
So you’ve started your RPG blog but for some reason nobody is actually reading your stuff. Especially if you want people to read your posts and give some feedback this can be a...
April 27, 2011
My experiences with Fudge
Last Friday I ran my first game of Fudge. An old friend visited me and asked me to run a roleplaying game since he hasn’t played in ages. At first he showed some...
April 26, 2011
Lazy Thursday video post
As you all well know the people running this blog just love H.P. Lovecraft’s work. So it’s no surprise that I am very excited about “The Whisperer in Darkness”, a movie that should...
April 21, 2011
My quest to run a Fudge game
I’ve been flirting with the Fudge RPG for quite a while now. It was in April 2009 when I wrote about my plans to run an urban fantasy/horror game for my girlfriend using...
April 19, 2011
Help playtest the High Score RPG
High Score is a roleplaying game currently in development by fellow RPG blogger Dennis Santana which has an interesting premise. Each event in the game has a certain high score the players have...
April 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
Campaign Primer Ideas! Part 1
Fellow poster, and all around nice guy, Shinobicow (who also has a really cool nick, but I digress) wrote an excellent series of posts on World Building that he shared here on the...
April 11, 2011
My homework for you today: try out a new game
Ok, you don’t have to do it today, but if you try out a new roleplaying game in the next six month at least, I would be very pleased. As most of you...
April 8, 2011
Ask the readers: Does not play well with others…
Over in the Paizo Blog I’ve been reading with some interest their proposed changes to the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program. I have never participated on such programs. When I began role playing I was...
April 7, 2011