Into the Odd Remastered Review
Posted by Jared Rascher | Nov 7, 2022 | Reviews | 0
A Super Simple Take On The Silver Standard
Posted by John Arcadian | Nov 4, 2022 | General | 1
When No One Wants to GM
Posted by Brittany Ferrendi | Nov 2, 2022 | Player Perspective | 0
Quick Review of The Army Painter Wet Palette
Posted by tangibleday | Oct 31, 2022 | Reviews, Tools | 0
Pockets of Immersion
Posted by Phil Vecchione | Oct 28, 2022 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice | 0
Gnomecast 152 – GM Burnout
by Chris Sniezak | Nov 9, 2022 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice, Gnomecast
You can’t muster up the energy, the game isn’t fun anymore, you feel trapped by the...
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by Jared Rascher | Nov 7, 2022 | Reviews
Free League Publishing has made a name for itself with some major hits in recent years, with heavy hitters like the Alien RPG, The One Ring, and Twilight: 2000. However, another aspect of the publisher has been to bring RPGs from the European market into wider distribution. Not only has this...
Read MoreA Super Simple Take On The Silver Standard
by John Arcadian | Nov 4, 2022 | General
I recently wrote up an article detailing the simpler setup I use for my FFXIV x DND game for currency. In that setup, I distill costs down to ranges for various categories of items and just figure out the appropriate cost within the range on the fly. Part of that concept is based on using the...
Read MoreWhen No One Wants to GM
by Brittany Ferrendi | Nov 2, 2022 | Player Perspective
When a group of people first get into tabletop gaming together, there’s usually one fateful question: Who is going to be the Game Master? That question can be hard to solve when the group is entirely brand new to the rules and have only a vague understanding of the time and effort it takes to run...
Read MoreQuick Review of The Army Painter Wet Palette
by tangibleday | Oct 31, 2022 | Reviews, Tools
Are you curious about diving deeper into the hobby of miniature painting? RPG miniatures are everywhere and you can even buy them in bulk. But most of the time, they come unpainted. Those bare plastic, pewter, or even resin miniatures are great starting points for your painting journey. In order...
Read MorePockets of Immersion
by Phil Vecchione | Oct 28, 2022 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice
A few weeks ago, there was some discourse going around on Twitter about metagaming and it brought up the idea of immersion, and that somehow these two things run antithetical to one another. I don’t think they do. In my current style of gaming, I am a fan of using metagaming to help set things up...
Read MoreGnomecast #151 – Published Adventures
by Chris Sniezak | Oct 26, 2022 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice, Gnomecast
Published Adventures? We’re talking about Published Adventures? You just open them, read them, and run them, right? But there’s a little more to it than that, which Ang and Chris get into on this episode of the Gnomecast.
Read MorePath of the Planebreaker Review
by Jared Rascher | Oct 24, 2022 | Reviews
One of the most popular requested settings for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition has been Planescape. It is a setting about exploring the various planes of existence in the D&D multiverse, but in addition to providing planar sites for adventuring, it also creates factions and a home base...
Read MoreChasme + Water Elemental – Monster Combo
by Tomas Gimenez Rioja | Oct 21, 2022 | General
Content warning (CW): mosquitos Welcome to Monster Combo, a series of articles in which we will create some backstory, encounters, variations, and a bit of lore for monsters from different games and genres. From Lovecraftian horror and medieval fantasy creatures to sci-fi cyborgs and weird...
Read MoreWorld’s Heartbeat
by J.T. Evans | Oct 19, 2022 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice
When you’re running a game, the world around the PCs has a pulse, a heartbeat, a soul, and a set of motions that may or may not be independent of the characters’ actions. There are two main approaches to handling this heartbeat of the world. The first is to have a “living...
Read MoreGnomecast #150 – Riddle Me This
by Chris Sniezak | Oct 12, 2022 | Gnomecast
What tries to be a short-form thing, while also diving into a deeply embedded aspect of gaming that can also be considered highly annoying? Well an episode of the Gnomecast talking about Riddles of course!
Read MoreScion Player’s Guide: Saints and Monsters Review
by Jared Rascher | Oct 10, 2022 | General
It’s time to rise above it all and take a look at the Scion Player’s Guide: Saints and Monsters. Scion 2nd Edition is Onyx Path’s game of modern urban fantasy, where players are the children of the gods, just waking up to their power and their place in the grand schemes of Fate. But what if you...
Read MoreDice, Dice Baby: Polyhedral or Virtual?
by Lori Caskey-Sigety | Oct 5, 2022 | General
I’m currently reading David M. Ewalt’s book Of Dice and Men with the large d20 featured on the cover and I keep looking at the dice. I remember purchasing new dice, a dice bag, and dice earrings when first visiting Gen Con back in 2010. I attribute my renewed love of gaming and dice to two people:...
Read MoreDecision Issues? Try Odds Or Evens
by John Arcadian | Oct 3, 2022 | General
A very simple trick that I’ve used in many games and might have picked up from someone somewhere along the way is using the equivalent of a coin flip when I need to decide something quickly, or to see if I answer some player bid for advantage, or whether a guard can be persuaded. I’ve...
Read MoreIn-Game Adjustments
by Phil Vecchione | Sep 30, 2022 | Game Mastering, GMing Advice
A few weeks ago I was running my Night’s Black Agents (NBA) game, and the agents had just come off of one kinetic op, and right into another (because the timing was critical). They were banged up and their skill pools were somewhat depleted. Their opposition at the other site was not overwhelming...
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