How do we craft a good experience for our players when they're just voices in our ears and videos on our screens? After all, experience is more than the points that gets handed out at the of the session. I want to talk about the charisma-based skill ...
This time around, I'm going to talk about the order in which you design your adventures. There are many takes on this, and loads of approaches to use. However, I'm going to focus in on what works for me. If it works for you, great! If you give it a . ...
A new version of the roleplaying card game For the Queen is upon us, and as I prepared to write this review I thought, "I just wrote a review for this game." Then I realized that it's been almost four years since I wrote this review, and the enormity ...
Ang, Jared and Senda chat about how Imposter Syndrome has affected their relationship with running and playing RPGs along with some ideas on how to navigate through those feelings. Links: Trans Rights Readathon Stewpot: Tales from a Fantasy Tavern .. ...
Back in 2015, a shadow began to creep across the RPG industry. Shadow of the Demon Lord was a game designed by one of the designers that worked on multiple editions of D&D, Robert J. Schwalb. This was a fantasy RPG that was designed for people whose ...
I love foisting eldritch artifacts or ancient magics onto their shoulders. I take glee in giving them influence within an important organization and seeing what they'll do. It allows me to ask tough questions about how and when they use their great . ...
Ang gets JT and Walt on the mics to learn more about what the OSR (Old School... Renaissance? Revival? Retro? The R varies) actually is. Join us and learn more about this style of roleplaying game. Links: JT's Amazon Book Page Origins Game Fair ...
One of my gaming groups plays a mashed up game with three genres: Highschool, Swashbuckling, and Urban Fantasy. We call it Children of the Shroud. In the game we play high school kids in a hidden magic world. As part of our magical learning we are .. ...
When starting to design an adventure for your home group, the first things I always consider are the mood, tone, and theme of the adventure. This will dictate all design decisions, descriptions, monsters included, sometimes the treasure gained, and . ...
Licensed games usually take the approach of presenting material that can happen far away from the canon events of the setting. This works especially well in settings like Star Trek or Star Wars, where there is a literal galaxy of locations available ...
Ang, Chris and Josh chat about mixing up genres in our RPGs and as a result touch on what genre is, and why we can and should mash it all up together! Links: D&D Lego! The Nebula Awards Daggerheart Playtest ...
