Dragon Chow Dice Bags
Recently while looking for a geeky gift for my girlfriend I stumbled upon Dragon Chow Dice Bags. We both had leather dice bags for quite some time now, but this time I was...
February 9, 2011
RPG
Get 20% discount at DriveThruRPG until March 8th
As participants in DriveThruRPG’s blog and podcast program we can again provide you with a 20% discount on several cool products at “the Ultimate Gaming Store”! This discount is valid for the following...
February 9, 2011
Bits And Mortar
Bits And Mortar is a “pro-retailer, pro-brick-and-mortar, pro-PDF, pro-eBook initiative” backed by several small-press publishers like Evil Hat Productions, Cubicle 7, Pelgrane Press, Nevermet Press and Rogue Games among others. Usually when you...
February 8, 2011
Character advancement the hard way
Back in the day, when we still played games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st Edition, character advancement was more than just picking new skills and talents, or improving the stats. Often the characters...
February 7, 2011
Free Stuff Friday: DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook Errata
This week’s Free Stuff is: DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook Errata Did you know that Green Ronin released Errata for the DC Adventures Hero’s Handbook? They did! Best of all it’s FREE! On The...
February 4, 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
Advice / Fluff/Inspiration / Freebies / HERO System / Improve Your Game / Mutants & Masterminds / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / Savage Worlds
It’s a good time to be a supers fan!
Warning: This post is a mixed bag, part reflection on my current campaign and the lessons I’ve learned from it, part an overview of recent sources of inspiration and sharing a handout I’ve...
February 3, 2011
Wu Xing Giveaways for February
Third Eye Games’ Eloy Lasanta let me know that there will be a couple of Wu Xing-related giveaways this month. I have to admit I haven’t looked into Wu Xing myself, but I...
February 3, 2011
Interview with the authors of RAG
Resolute, Adventurer & Genius is a brand-new and exciting pulp roleplaying game powered by my own Wyrm System. Like WR&M it’s available for free on DriveThruRPG. The 36-paged PDF contains all the rules...
February 2, 2011
Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG
What about The Ruins Perilous? A review…
Rite Publishing has recently unveiled a new Patronage Project, The Ruins Perilous for the Pathfinder RPG. I received the first two rooms for review and here are my thoughts. The model they are...
January 31, 2011
World Building Part 7 – Inside your NPC’s Heads
One of the ways to flesh out and develop your world is to look at it through the eyes of the people living there. If you are playing your world as you build...
January 28, 2011
Ultimate Combat playtest for the Pathfinder RPG
Rejoice Pathfinder fans! A new playtest had been given unto us to try out, this time around for the upcoming Ultimate Combat book. It’s an 18 page preview of three new alternate classes...
January 27, 2011
Making NPCs come alive!
After bashing NPCs on a previous post I think this time around I’ll show them some love. I won’t claim the advice I’m going to give is wholly original. It’s the collected wisdom...
January 26, 2011
Review: The Book of Unremitting Horror
As a GM I love the horror genre. I think I have some talent for setting up a creepy atmosphere on the gaming table and I love confronting my players with unsettling mysteries....
January 25, 2011
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Letting go of that NPC
Attention: Slight rambling ahead, with a point to make about RPGs somewhere in there, you have been warned! I recently finished reading the Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson (that’s the girl with the...
January 24, 2011
D&D4e / Dragon Age / Feature / Game Design / Interview / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Pathfinder / RPG
From the Kobold’s Lair
Recently I have posted about Open Design’s latest patronage project: Midgard! And while pondering if I should become patron myself, the plan to do an interview with the three designers formed in my...
January 24, 2011
Review: Courts of the Shadow Fey
This time around, I will be bringing you my review of Wolfgang Baur’s Courts of the Shadow Fey, an adventure for 4e D&D designed for characters ranging from levels 12-15. The adventure spans...
January 21, 2011