Timing is Everything
So your players have just crashed in on your nefarious mastermind behind the current adventure. After some light banter, one of your players make an unexpected maneuver and may possibly end the...
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How Wounded are You?
Combat is one of the most time consuming elements of any role-playing game. I remember long drawn out actions scenes that enhanced the story we were creating. As I have progressed in my gaming years,...
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Well, I have waited too long since I posted an article. The year started off good and, as usual, life churns and everything becomes a tangled mess of putting out fires. This brings me to the topic I...
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Adventure on the Cheap
Death’s Retreat Today was a good day for bargain game hunting. While I am not an advocate for the new Dungeons and Dragons, I do enjoy reading adventures, good and otherwise, for inspiration. I am even...
View ArticleResources for Campaign Design
Today’s post was inspired by yesterday’s Roleplaying Tips Newsletter #577. I thought I’d share a couple of the great resources I’ve found recently. Roleplaying Tips The Roleplaying Tips Newsletter is...
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Fudging Player Agency
Fudge Dice There is a lot of talk on player agency on the net. Looking at my own game mastering style, I have been trying to determine just how much agency I rob from players. After a late night...
View ArticleSimple vs. Complex Games
Trying to keep up with the blog this new year and not let too much time go between posts. I was doing some work on my game for this Friday when I got this facebook update from a colleague. Any...
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Dice, Rulebooks, Actions?
Misguided Ambition Deliberating on what to discuss on the blog is sometimes baffling as I have chosen not to follow D&D, the game that introduced me to the world of role-playing. As such, some of...
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Pen and Paper… Who Uses Pens???
This is not a pet peeve of mine, but every time a I see a reference to table top role-playing as a ‘pen and paper game’, it makes me chuckle and I wonder if I’ve had some abnormal/alternate earth...
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RPG Miniatures and Tokens
Combat in a roleplaying game can be a difficult beast to manage. As I was cleaning the multitude of old links in my browser, I stumbled across this video for a gaming table. I thought initially, “Wow,...
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RPG Blog Carnival – What Season is it Anyway?
This month’s RPG Blog carnival is being hosted by Phil over at Tales of a GM and the topic is Summerland – topics related to the season of summer. In reading through his post, I realized that dealing...
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Calculating Planetary Orbital Periods
In my previous article on determining the current season, I showed that you needed to know the length of the world’s year in order to track the season. But what if you don’t know the length of the...
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New Horizions Reaches Pluto
Best image of Pluto that had been downloaded from New Horizons as I was writing. Taken at a distance of 766,000 kilometers (about 2x the distance from the Earth to the Moon) If you’ve been following my...
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Mapping Port Loren
It’s no secret that I’m big on Star Frontiers. I’ve been playing it off and on since I was 12 years old. So it should come as no surprise that I did another Star Frontiers thing. This time I...
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A First Hatching Pattern for Dyson Style Maps
They say that if you’re going to hire a programmer, you should hire a lazy one. Because they will write programs and scripts to automate away all the redundant and repetitive tasks. It’s no secret...
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Shrine of the Harvest Goddess Map
When the Shrine of the Harvest Goddess Two Sheet Location when up on DriveThruRPG it contained this map: Shrine of the Harvest Goddess map with grid in standing structure The file is labeled as having...
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Random Encounters: Umbergritt the Archon
Umbergritt was an earth elemental that was summoned to the fight in the Eternity Coliseum, a pit fighting establishment that prided itself on exotic opponents. Slated as a novice fight, Umbergritt was...
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