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Advice / Guest Post / Improve Your Game / Props / RPG / RPG tools

Combat Tiers Review

Recently I ran into an issue with my weekly D&D game. My players where trying to attack a dragon while it was flying away. It became increasingly difficult to track how high up...

June 30, 2010
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Fluff/Inspiration / Other Systems / RPG

Your daily dose of ICONS!

Some time ago, when I was just getting on this superhero bandwagon I wrote a post about supers, including a tool to illustrate characters called Hero Factory (Fábrica de Heroís). On that post...

June 29, 2010
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D&D4e / DDI / Guest Post / Just my two cents / News & Reviews / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks / RPG

Assassins, and Necromancers, and Hexblades! Oh My!

I was quite excited when I recently read the Critical Hits post titled, “D&D 4e: The New Player’s Option.” In the post written by Bartoneus it was discovered that Wizards of the Coast...

June 28, 2010
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Contest / News & Reviews / RPG / Site News

June Solstice Giveaway: The lucky winners

On Saturday morning I created a list of the 29 valid contest entries and then used the random number service provided by random.org to generate three random numbers. The lucky winners of the...

June 28, 2010
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Feature / Freebies / Guest Post / RPG / Swords & Wizardry

Free Stuff Friday: Swords & Wizardry

It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This weeks Free Stuff is: Swords & Wizardry Want to see what all this Role Playing Game stuff is all about...

June 25, 2010
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Humor / Just my two cents / Other Systems / Pathfinder / Random musings / Reviews & First Looks

Does the GM Screen deserve to go the way of the Dodo?

I always tell myself I’m not going to buy it. But I always do and I’m consistently underwhelmed or outright disappointed! There was a time when I had a use for Game Master...

June 25, 2010
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Dark Heresy / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / Video

Deathwatch: In-Depth Preview Video

This game sounds more intriguing every time I learn something new about it. And the new concept of “Squad Mode” vs. “Solo Mode” that’s explained in the video sounds like a very cool...

June 24, 2010
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Advice / Feature / Game Design / News & Reviews / Reviews & First Looks / RPG

Review: The Kobold Guide to Game Design Volume I

Recently a lot of RPG blogs have posted reviews of the third volume of the Kobold Guide, so it seems I am a bit late to the party. In the long run I...

June 23, 2010
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Freebies / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG

Let’s got to the frontier… The Star Frontier that is!

Dane of War’s excellent post, 10 RPGs every gamer should play before they fail their saving throw vs. death got me thinking of my favorite sci-fi game, Star Frontiers. This old school sci-fi...

June 23, 2010
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Feature / Fluff/Inspiration / Just my two cents / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG

Deconstructing Metaplots

I have a confession to make (another one you say)! As a Game Master I really don’t like pre-published adventures. Don’t get me wrong I know WHY they exist, and I’ve read my share and...

June 22, 2010
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Dark Heresy / Freebies / News & Reviews / Other Systems / Reviews & First Looks / RPG

Deathwatch: Final Sanction

Fantasy Flight Games’ preview adventure to the upcoming Deathwatch roleplaying game is finally available for download at RPGNow. Deatchwatch is another RPG set into the Warhammer 40,000 universe. This time players adopt the...

June 22, 2010
Contest / Feature / News & Reviews / Other Systems / RPG / Savage Worlds / Site News

June Solstice Giveaway contest

To celebrate the first day of summer (or winter if you are living on the southern hemisphere) we’re giving away more RPG PDFs in collaboration with the nice guys at RPGNow/DriveThruRPG! This time...

June 21, 2010
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Ask The Readers / Other Systems / Random musings / RPG / Storyteller

Ask The Readers: What’s your take on Exalted?

White Wolf’s Exalted is one of the games that immediately piqued my interest when it came out. I’ve enjoyed several White Wolf games before and I was excited to see White Wolf’s version...

June 21, 2010
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Fluff/Inspiration / Just my two cents / Other Systems / RPG

Every Icon(ic) superhero needs a super villain!

Let it never be said that I am a fickle fan! The superhero fever steamroller plows on unabated… Recently I tried out the ICONS RPG random generation method and wrote a post about...

June 21, 2010
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News & Reviews / Pathfinder / Reviews & First Looks / RPG

What about the Genius Guide to Mystic Godlings? A review…

Like my previous post this one is also a review of a PDF product we received a review copy of, this time around the Genius Guide to Mystic Godlings by Super Genius Games....

June 18, 2010
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Advice / Freebies / Guest Post / Improve Your Game / Props / Random musings / RPG / RPG tools

Free Stuff Friday: Tolkien Fonts

It’s Friday and it’s time to give you some more free stuff! This week’s Free Stuff is: Tolkien Fonts Fonts? What the heck would I need fonts for? Well let me tell you...

June 18, 2010
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Dungeonslayers / News & Reviews / Other Systems / RPG

Dungeonslayers is now on Facebook

Dungeonslayers, the old-fashioned roleplaying game, is now out to conquer the world using the popular social network Facebook. If you are a fan of Christian Kennig’s rules-light fantasy game, join us on the...

June 18, 2010
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Michael Wolf is a German games designer and enthusiast best known for creating the free rules-light medieval fantasy adventure game Warrior, Rogue & Mage. Stargazer's World was started by Michael in August 2008.

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