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Generating Local Color - The Quirky Tradition
There’s nothing that gives a place more color than the quirky traditions it’s amassed over the years. Many of these serve no apparent purpose, or are a matter of superstition, but some are useful behaviors t[...]<Featured>
Stupid Wandering Monster Tricks
Here are a few things I try to keep in mind when designing a new wandering monster chart.Pick Dice WiselyI don't want to hunt for special dice every time I need to dice up a wandering monster., so I pick what I'm sure to[...]
60 Minutes on D&D
Back in 1985, the CBS news program 60 Minutes ran a story on the then-current controversy over Dungeons & Dragons. It featured interviews with Gary Gygax and D[...]
Chatty Studios Presents: Project Kobold Love
In which Chatty jumps off a cliff of his choosing… One of the numerous lessons I learned from my first Gen Con Experience was that I had the skills and guts to carve myself a name in the RPG industry, I just had t[...]</Featured>
I Used To Believe
I Used To Believe is a wonderful site where people share silly things they used to believe as a child. The vast menagerie of monsters that children create (most of which apparently live in the toilet) is simply amazing t[...]
Ars Magica Players & Info about Troupe Style Playing
Yesterday I posted about an alternate style of running your Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition role playing game (ok.. take THAT search engines!). Or any RPG for that matter. Unfortunately... nobody bit. Maybe it was the[...]
RPG Bloggers Unite!
I just wanted to give a quick thank you to the folks at the RPG Bloggers Network. Since joining, not only have I seen an increase in traffic, but as I've statede before, I've found some excellent discussion on some blog[...]
When Good Encounter Planning Goes Bad
August 27, 2008 from The Art of the Near TPK
Filed under: DM Advice, GM Advice, RPG Hub, behind the screen
The other day I came across this post and a paragraph in the middle of it caught my eye.When planning encounters, DMs need to make sure that everyone has something to do. If the Big Bad Demon has super-high spell resista[...]
Filed under: DM Advice, GM Advice, RPG Hub, behind the screen
Villain Spotlight #1 The Cardinal
Welcome to Villain Spotlight. For the next few days, I’ll be going over the various villain stereotypes, their variants, and how to use them in a game as centerpiece antagonists of any scale. The advice in this[...]
This is What Role-playing Does to Children…
This is one of my kittens, Little Man, before I introduced him to RPG’s… And this is Little Man after he insisted we play a game of Cyberpunk 2020. I love MS-Paint. [...]
Campaign/Adventure Prep: 4th Edition Treasure Hunters!
My gaming group usually takes off for the summer. We put our campaign on hiatus because of vacations, family quality time and yard work. While we gamed some (Magic:The Addiction, one shot RPG games, etc) this summer wa[...]
Alignment Part 9 - Goodie Two Shoes
In the realm of role play, good alignments make up the vast majority played. Many DMs only allow good and neutral alignments, and prefer good. It’s easier to justify a character taking a plot hook and running w[...]
Considering a gaming club in the Lehigh Valley
Shortly after graduating from college, I tried starting a gaming club in the Lehigh Valley, Pa. I was fresh off having helped create the Role-Playing Underground when I was a student at Lock Haven University, and I was [...]
Kobold Yoga
You know how sometimes and idea just won’t go away, no matter how sick, twisted and bad it is? Well, this is mine. All renderered in DAZ Studio, in glorious old-school line-drawn non technicolour. Click to make[...]
And the YouTube of the Year is…
…a tie! Yes, coming both in with 23 votes each (33% of the vote) are Dead Fantasy and “Rarr, I’m a monster.” A day in the life of portal turrets came in a respectable second place behind those two[...]
Combat - How Do You Eat Yours?
With the release of D&D 4th Edition I’m finding myself asking any roleplayer I come across from outwith my gaming group the same question. Do you actually ever use minitures during a game? I’ve never unde[...]
Stupid Wandering Monster Tricks
Here are a few things I try to keep in mind when designing a new wandering monster chart.Pick Dice WiselyI don't want to hunt for special dice every time I need to dice up a wandering monster., so I pick what I'm sure to[...]
Racial Traits in Games… is this racism?
"All Asians are good at math and know martial arts," is a racist statement. "All Gnomes are good at engineering and are intelligent," is a statement about Gnomes in World of Warcraft. Is it equally racist? I've been wr[...]-
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