Persians: Best dressed warriors. Ever.

January 5, 2009 from Greywulf's Lair
Filed under: 4e, RPG, RPG Hub 
Either that, or the worst at camouflage. You decide. DAZ Studio, no postwork. Click to enlarge if you eyeballs can take it. I’ve got a thing for Persians. I’m still merrily painting my Persian figures (16 do[...]
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Bullet Points of Light

January 5, 2009 from Jeff's Gameblog
Filed under: Old School, RPG, RPG Hub 
So I've decided to insert Wildland, the first map & key from Points of Light, into my World of Cinder setting. I'm a huge fan of author Rob Conley's stuff and I kinda like the challenge of trying to make this shiny [...]
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Player Handout for Dark Ages Campaign

January 5, 2009 from Chgowiz's Old Guy RPG Blog
Filed under: RPG Hub 
As part of alleviating my worries of players rising to lynch me when I don't know the finest arcane tidbits of 1E/OSRIC, I've put out this Player Handout to give to the players prior/at the game. What do you think? What[...]
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One day we’ll make our own D&D miniatures

January 5, 2009 from Newbie DM
Filed under: RPG Hub 
The future of manufacturing is here.  Sort of. This may be old news to some of you, but I saw this today and was blown away.  Mark my words, within the next 15 years, protecting Autocad files from internet piracy will [...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 09/19/2010 - 8:00pm End: 09/19/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 10/03/2010 - 8:00pm End: 10/03/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 10/17/2010 - 8:00pm End: 10/17/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 11/07/2010 - 8:00pm End: 11/07/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 11/21/2010 - 8:00pm End: 11/21/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 12/05/2010 - 8:00pm End: 12/05/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 12/19/2010 - 8:00pm End: 12/19/2010 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 01/02/2011 - 8:00pm End: 01/02/2011 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 01/16/2011 - 8:00pm End: 01/16/2011 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Lords of Tyr D&D Podcast Recording

January 5, 2009 from Lords of Tyr
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Start: 10/02/2011 - 8:00pm End: 10/02/2011 - 9:30pm Timezone: Etc/GMT-6 Record the Lords of Tyr Podcast[...]
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Making Magic Mysterious

January 5, 2009 from Neitherworld Stories
Filed under: Inspiration, RPG Hub, advice 
I finally began reading the Black Company novels recently. I'm still early in them, so - while I'll say that I'm enjoying them so far - this isn't a review.One minor thing I noticed is that the wizards of middling power [...]
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What would you use to RPG online?

January 5, 2009 from The Core Worlds
Filed under: RPG, RPG Hub 
I have a couple of friends who live in interesting places far, far away from civilisation (i.e. London) and manage to get less gaming in then their taste would like. I’ve been looking around for software to run an [...]
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Skill Challenges - Own that @#$%!!

January 5, 2009 from The Fine Art of the TPK
Filed under: RPG Hub, advice 
Sitting at work, trying to look busy has it's advantages. You get to read truly great posts like this one. After reading it, I find myself in 90% agreement. Mostly with the opinion that as written, skill challenges are a[...]
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Arguing Effectively

January 5, 2009 from RPGCentric
Filed under: RPG, RPG Hub, advice 
This is not a follow-up to my post on Conflict Resolution and Gaming. This is a response to posts I’ve seen recently and a trend I’ve noticed in gamers. What I’ve noticed is that a lot of gamers have th[...]
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The Official OMG-What-Did-I-Just-Get-Myself-Into Freakout ™

January 5, 2009 from Chgowiz's Old Guy RPG Blog
Filed under: RPG Hub 
... aka, Holy-Crap-I-Haven't-GMed-1E-In-20-Years. So I'm putting pen to paper to create minimal, but game-ready content for a group of at least 3, maybe 6 players, and it just dawned on me that I don't *remember* all th[...]
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Tw-0n (key->green): an Elves & Espers Character

January 5, 2009 from Tales of the Rambling Bumblers
Filed under: Campaigns, Play, RPG Hub, Savage Worlds 
Concept: A Hazmat Transport & Disposal Droid Agility d4 Smarts d4 Spirit d6 Strength d6 Vigor d10 Pace 6, Parry 4, Toughness 7, Charisma -1 Edges: AB: Super, Power Points +5 (x2), Take the Hit (+2 to Soak rolls) Hind[...]
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How 4th Edition Has Made Me a Better DM

January 5, 2009 from Roleplayingpro
Filed under: 4th Ed, Game Mastering, RPG Hub, roleplaying 
When it comes to gaming over the past two and a half decades I’ve easily spent 97% of my gaming time behind the Dungeon Master’s screen, not in front of it.  Hell, even when I attend gaming conventions I spend most [...]
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Inside the Insider: The Warden

January 5, 2009 from At Will
Filed under: RPG Hub, news 
The new PHB2 preview we have from WotC is the Warden.  I’d been curious to see what they were going to do.  The Warden is a Defender with the new primal power source, is essentially a nature knight. [...]
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Pitch for the Slaughtervale.

January 5, 2009 from At Will
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Here’s my pitch for the Slaughtervale, the setting for my online game. Long ago, this realm had another name. That was before the Elemental Chaos and the Astral Sea creaked at the barrier of this world. Sensing the[...]
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Descent into the Fetid Depths

Session Summary for 1/4/2009 Elves & Espers campaign This session we had a new addition to our gaming group: Andrew, Elyssa’s step-brother, and his girlfriend Sarah (who had never gamed before, but agreed to co[...]
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Instant high quality fantasy music

January 5, 2009 from 3POINT75
Filed under: Legacy D&D, RPG Hub, news 
Every now and then the topic background music for gaming sessions pops up. Most of the time people discuss cd's featuring soundtracks or other genres that could enhance a session. I'd like to introduce you to a quick way[...]
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RPG Blog Anthology - MAJOR UPDATE

January 5, 2009 from The Core Mechanic
Filed under: RPG Hub 
In October, I announced the start of a new ambitious project: OPEN GAME TABLE, The 2008 Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs. Inspired by another successful blog anthology project, Open Laboratory, I was struck by the spa[...]
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GM Interviews - Answers #2

January 5, 2009 from Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer
Filed under: RPG Hub 
Today’s GM interview is one from Rick, the one GM that thinks in movies.  I’ve grown to realize that Rick really does think in terms of cinema, which is a great pattern to look at when playing under him.  A[...]
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Valabar’s

January 5, 2009 from Project Valiant
Filed under: RPG Hub 
As inspired by ChattyDM this morning, with apologies to Steven Brust. Valabar’s is a renowned restaurant in Jannasberre with exquisite food. It’s a fairly large establishment with impeccable atmosphere, great[...]
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Worldbuilding 101: The 10 Scale

January 5, 2009 from UncleBear
Filed under: Fluff/Inspiration, Game Design, RPG Hub, advice 
When creating systemless settings, a basic benchmark can be used to allow for conversion to the system of choice. For simplicity, every descriptive item that should be measured can be rated on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 [...]
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Compromise Systems

January 5, 2009 from RPG Blog II
Filed under: Advice/Tools, RPG Hub 
I've noticed here and there on various message boards the idea of "compromise systems". You often see this in the vein of "Well, the group wanted to try Rolemaster, I wanted to try Savage Worlds, and we settled on d6" ([...]
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