RPG A Tale of Two Types
There’s an old adage amongst my gaming circles: “There are roleplaying games, and there is D&D.” This is not meant as a knock against Dungeons and Dragons of any edition or its derivatives for...
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RPG Harvest Festivals and Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is upon us! It’s time to let out my belt, pick some side dishes, and prepare to cook. Tomorrow will involve turkey–one of the few times a year I dedicate a whole day to planning,...
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RPG Using Game Mechanics to Establish Tone, a Guest Article by Mike Nystul
Today’s guest author is Mike Nystul, Lead Designer at Castle Nystul Games. Mike’s game design career goes back decades, and as you may have guessed the D&D spell “Nystul’s Magic Aura” is...
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RPG Black Friday, Part V
After consuming enough fried turkey to deliver 1,000 mg of tryptophan, some very excellent beer, some quite disappointing mead, and putting two over-tired kids to bed, theres nothing more I like to...
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RPG Street Wise Maps A Great Little Resource For A Modern Game
The other night, my Game Master pulled out a new GMs screen to spread around his laptop. It was a small, laminated, easy to read, touristy street map of Seattle. Were playing a near future cyberpunk...
View ArticleRPG Using Disinformation for Plot Development
Disinformation is a fancy term for lying via a network for the purpose of achieving some form of gain. Need an example? Just look to the recent U.S. election campaigns and you will be sure to find...
View ArticleRPG The Anatomy of a Conspiracy
I have always loved a good conspiracy. I am drawn to the ideas of cabals, cover ups, and the intricate machinations of a good conspiracy. A conspiracy is a great foundation for any kind of RPG – from...
View ArticleRPG PC GearDestroyed or Damaged?
Imagine that you are playing King Arthur as a PC in an RPG. You wield the mighty Excalibur not just a sword but a defining part of the legend surrounding your character! While wielding the blade...
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RPG Isle of the Unknown: It Brings the Weird, You Add the Why
This is the second article in my rather widely-separated series on three Lamentations of the Flame Princess products for GMs. The first was about Carcosa, a sci-fi/fantasy sandbox setting that would...
View ArticleRPG Hot Button: What is Your Pet Peeve?
Admit it, we all have them. As Game Masters there is usually something that, no matter how innocuous, just gets under our skin. They aren’t major issues and certainly nothing worth sweating over, but...
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RPG Rodeo in the rain
Gnome Rodeo! It’s time to don tall boots and prepare to ride the range on our battle sheep. What have our keen eyed scouts found? Skills: I’m a big fan of thinking about skills, but we’ve got a patrol...
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RPG Ripped From The Headlines
Youve probably seen this dragon slaying ad circulating around the internet. It ran in the classified section of the Oklahoman newspaper on December 1st. While some theories believe it as a prank or a...
View ArticleRPG And the Winner of Our Say Something Funny to Prove Youre Human Contest...
Way back in like October of 1873 we had a contest to coincide with purging spam user accounts from the site. Since spam was the impetus, we asked readers to say something funny to prove that they were...
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RPG Midgard Campaign Setting Review
A bit less than a year ago I wrote about the patronage project for Open Design’s Midgard Campaign Setting, which has now been released by Kobold Press ($39.99 softcover + PDF). I was offered a review...
View ArticleRPG How I Made a Player Cry
Happily, I recently finished my much-maligned Song of Ice and Fire campaign. For all its faults, the game did end in an appropriate fashion and was notable for being the first time I made a player cry...
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