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Roleplaying Tips – Thu, 28 March, 04:13 AM
Last week, I wondered how you might prove one’s citizenship in a low-tech fantasy setting. Even if this isn’t a factor in your adventures, it’s a cool little detail to help your setting feel real. I received two language-related responses I thought you might find interesting: The first is from RPT G... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Thu, 28 March, 04:00 AM
In Part I of this post, I shared the four authors whose stories and settings have most influenced my development of Secrets of sha-Arthan. In this part, I'd like to share the four roleplaying games I'd single out as having played a similar role.Empire of the Petal Throne: This one should be obvious.... read more.
Dyson's Dodecahedron – Wed, 27 March, 11:26 PM
Graxworm Town (300 dpi promo) The main entrance into the Graxworm megadungeon is not at the base of the mountain, but the top. The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, fully miles long and large enough to contain a town in the mouth. Creatures have set up here to “mine” the massive co... read more.
The CORE20 RPG System – Wed, 27 March, 05:09 PM
A confession: I really love combat in D&D and other RPGs. Like, a lot. My favorite class has always been the fighter. I love the story that plays out through a character’s choice of weapons and armor. I live for the vicarious feeling of reliving every heroic tale I ever read as a kid by … Continue r... read more.
Monte Cook Games – Wed, 27 March, 02:02 PM
Two Great Play Aids for the Old Gods of Appalachia Roleplaying Game Bring the beasts, NPCs, cyphers, and artifacts of […] The post Old Gods of Appalachia XP Deck and Resource Deck appeared first on Monte Cook Games.... read more.
Kobold Press – Wed, 27 March, 02:00 PM
As the creators of the Creature Codex and the Tome of Beasts series, we wanted to give the same love and care for the earliest 5E monsters that we gave to our other monsters. To accomplish that, we noted a few key points we wanted for each monster: Clear Identity. For each creature, we worked t... read more.
The Alexandrian – Wed, 27 March, 01:05 PM
DISCUSSING In the Shadow of the Spire – Session 36B: The Madness of Mahdoth But this time their conversation returned to the strange, obsidian box that Ranthir had found in his rooms upon awaking for the first time at the Ghostly Minstrel. “I really want to know what’s in there,” Tee said. “Maybe i... read more.
Tribality – Wed, 27 March, 01:00 PM
Arcadia was incredible, Flee, Mortals! a masterpiece… so where does Where Evil Lives, the companion product to the monster book stand? I’ve been checking out most of it, examining the design behind the lairs and just checking out what’s cool about it in my latest streams on Twitch. If you want to ch... read more.
EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews – Wed, 27 March, 12:39 PM
Smörkås Borg, Kobolds Ate My Baby!, Mörk Borg, Traveller, Doctor Who, Paranoia, Old-School Essentials, Cairn, and D&D all have products out this week.... read more.
From the Sorcerer's Skull – Wed, 27 March, 11:00 AM
I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis! This week, we look at the comics hitting the newsstand on March 24, 1983.Green Arrow #2: Barr and von Eeden/Giordano catchup with Green Arrow trying to uncover the identity of the person who wants to kill Oliver Queen. He has a ... read more.
Gnome Stew – Wed, 27 March, 10:00 AM
http://misdirectedmark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/GC_185_takingoverGMing_final.mp3 Ang, Jared, and JT get together on the mics to talk about all the ins and outs of taking over the GMing duties in an existing group. Links: Pathfinder Mini-Dungeon Tome D&D 5e Mini-Dungeon Tome Coriolis: The ... read more.
The Gameatory – Wed, 27 March, 08:40 AM
I’m not a big fan of holidays, but my eldest son loves wandering around with little more than a backpack and the address of the nearest bar. Long-time readers may remember he “did” Europe a couple of years ago. This year, he is wandering around New Zealand.Before he left, he promised to send me pict... read more.
GROGNARDIA – Wed, 27 March, 04:00 AM
Traveller is, without qualification, my favorite roleplaying game and has been since I first encountered it through The Traveller Book in 1982. Over the course of the next four years, I played the heck out of it with both my neighborhood friends and one of my high school classmates. Then, I stopped ... read more.
Dyson's Dodecahedron – Wed, 27 March, 02:04 AM
In the Monday night Doomslakers group, we’ve taken a break from longer-form games and are currently doing a rapid round-robin where each member runs a short game, preferably something most of the group has not played before. The goal is 2-4 sessions before we move on to the next game. So I had the... read more.
The GM Is Always Right - Dump Stat Adventures – Wed, 27 March, 01:00 AM
Claw, claw, bite. That’s the normal attack pattern of many monsters. From dragons to modrons, you have boring monsters doing boring attacks inflicting boring damage. It doesn’t matter if you call the attack a claw, a bite, or a slam - if all a monster does is the same thing over and over, just infli... read more.