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Penny Arcade

Lisan al Gabe - You can apparently watch Dune: Part Two at home now, and since that's where Mork watches movies it's been a boon to him. It isn't the case that *I'm* don...
Stargazer's World

New Player Advice: Try To Learn The Rules - Last time in the series I wrote about the “Matt Mercer” effect and the misconception that every TTRPG session has to look like an episode of “Critical Role...
ars ludi

West Marches: Finding the Dungeons - There was a question in the comments about whether a West Marches GM should tell the players where the dungeons are or make them go out and search. Players...
Fear the Boot

Episode 622 – bringing your PC to life - * (0:30) What steps do we take to bring a character to life? * (1:49) Ask what’s important. * (6:53) Seeing the good and bad in a single trait. * (8:06) Do...
The Future Digital Life

Forging a Legacy: Episode Twenty-Eight - Here's the next installment of our Metallum Nocturne story. If you need to catch up on any of the previous episodes, click here.Episode Twenty-EightTwo da...
Points of Light

Biggus Geekus: D&D Only Needs Two Classes - When I saw the video title I initially interpreted it to mean that a fantasy game rooted in pseudo-European trappings would work just fine with only two ...
This Way Lies Madness

Games I Played in 2023 - Every year I try to look back and make a list of the games I played. I failed to do this for 2022, and I took my sweet time doing it for 2023. Anyway, here...
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Interview With A Dork Who Is Mad About Female Space Marines - There are gates? They fell? wtf? If you follow Warhammer 40k stuff (which I do a little because I'm running this), then you know that their crazed hate...
Bat in the Attic

The Release of How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and the Isle of Pyade - The Release With the successful conclusion and fulfillment of my Kickstarter, I am releasing How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and The Isle of Pyade to the publ...
Geek Ken

Painting Marvel Crisis Protocol – She-Hulk - I’m going the route of fun characters for my Avengers list. The superhero lawyer, Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk, was a model I wanted. Sadly, seems the gr...
Sarah Darkmagic

Hello! - [image: Art Work - Planets]*Art Work - Planets* So, a lot of stuff happening here in the land of Sarah Darkmagic. First, I recently joined a local artist...
Gothridge Manor

ShadowDark Magic Items - The next campaign I run will use the ShadowDark RPG. I'm not sure when that'll be (I'm hoping a little later this year), but ShadowDark is my choice. I'v...
Dice Monkey

A Year in Review - It’s been a busy year for me! I wanted to do a 2023 retrospective, and take a look at goals
Dungeon Mastering

How to Calculate Hit Points 5e D&D - Hit points (HP) are a central mechanic in Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition (D&D 5e). They determine your character’s mental and physical durability. That...
www. Newbie DM .com

Dice, Monsters, and Trips… cool things in my gaming bag - I thought I’d share a few new things that I’ve been carrying in my gaming bag lately for my D&D game. Which by the way, has already reached 13th level and ...
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...
Adventure Materials

White Box: FMAG Dungeon Crawl – 1 - Intro I just picked up a copy of the White Box: Fantasy Medieval Adventure Game, but I’ve been reading the PDF version while waiting for my paperback copy ...
Fantasy Flight Games

FFG Live in December - Published 2 December 2022 | Legacy of Dragonholt FFG Live in December Announcing the FFG Livestreams for December 2022 It's FFG Live! Join us this month...
The Tao of D&D

This is an Important Game Mechanic - *"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good regional map. It's not a good map for a Simple Homebrew Campaign. It does some s$&...
Critical Hits

Review: The Magus - I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at "The Magus". I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven "Sell me an amazing Indie RPG" thre...
Beyond the Black Gate

Hey, what's going on in here? - It seems the Mad Scientist is working on something secret in his laboratory of horrors... I wonder what it will be? Is it anything to do with Warrior...
Buried Without Ceremony

How to Spotlight an Indie Creator - I’ve had the generous fortune of having my tabletop roleplaying games featured by a number of high-profile review sites and content creators. Critical Ro...
LivingDice.com

Gencon 2021 Exhibitor and Vendor Link List–No Map! - These are the links to all of the vendors for Gencon 2021 (as of 6/11/21). If you find any errors, The post Gencon 2021 Exhibitor and Vendor Link List–No...
sword +1

Ten Dead Rats Character Sheet - I have created a quick & dirty character sheet for Ten Dead Rats, it can be downloaded from my sidebar or here.
Campaign Development for Busy DM

Willow Golem - A guardian construct of living brambles
WorldWorksGames News

2020 Feels Like Forever - Thought we were dead? Well, you're sort of right! BUT we've yelled at our hosting service and resolved some download bugs. 25% off FOREVER is still a thi...
Power Word: Blog

Monsters: The Goblin Hordes - When you think low level D&D, there’s a lot of monsters that spring to mind. But few are more iconic than goblins! Cunning, sneaky, cowardly little nuisanc...
StupidRanger.com

Let’s talk about first sessions… - After a very long hiatus, I am pleased to report that we finally have a gaming group back together again… this time with kids involved (both under the age ...
theWeem

Ballpoint Dungeon (Secret Room) - Today I decided, while eating my lunch at work, to doodle around on the back of some meeting notes. I thought I would make a little dungeon room, taking in...
The Fine Art of the TPK

Past, Present, and Future all in one. - During the last year or two, I have been involved in a number of gaming-related projects. I've been a part of Byte Me Games, LLC since it founding, with a ...
paizo.com Recent Blog Entries in Store Blog

Sins of the Past - Varisia has been destroyed! Runelord Alaznist's alteration of the past has thrown the frontier nation into chaos, devastated cities, resurrected demon lo...
Sly Flourish

#10: Fujifilm Instax Mini 26 + Rainbow Film Bundle - Blue/White - [image: Fujifilm Instax] Fujifilm Instax Mini 26 + Rainbow Film Bundle - Blue/White by Fujifilm [image: 4.4 out of 5 stars](641) 1 used & new from $118.99...
Mike's D&D Blog » Blog News

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The First-Person Observer

How video games improve the kid? - According to elders, video games are harmful to children. They think that video games are dangerous for kids; they get to indulge in it the entire time. Ye...
Mad Brew Labs

Finally, both private key and address are encoded as text. - Mining Bitcoin has been a risky investment throughout the last few years so the investor would like to have an extremely brief period to acquire their in...
Musings of the Chatty DM

So You’ve Decided to Run Your Own D&D Campaign… - If you're thinking about starting your own D&D campaign you should pick an underlying theme as the structure with which you'll build your world.
KABUKI KAISER

FLOWER LICHES OF THE DRAGONBOAT FESTIVAL IS OUT! - An Asian OSR setting suitable for all character level, and a jasmine-infused version of *Lichlords*. Whether you are explorers of the Small Swords Society ...
Nerd Approved - Gadgets and Gizmos

Nerd Approved Is Now Part Of Comicbook.com! - If you’ve been wondering why things have been so quiet around here over the last few days, it’s because I’ve been busy setting up our new home! At some poi...
Ari

So long, and thanks for all the fish - This will be my last LJ entry. I'm joining the exodus of people leaving over the new ToS. I haven't really used LJ as anything more than a mirror of my new...
Greywulf's Lair

The King Arthur Pendragon RPG is free to download - Hop on over to the nice people at DriveThruRPG and you’ll find the classic 1st Edition of the King Arthur Pendragon RPG by Greg Stafford available as a fre...
blue collar space

Shamayan pilot - The Shamayan are a strange ancient species who claim (perhaps in jest) some relationship to humanity. They certainly watch a lot of old human movies. They ...
Save Versus Death

Glass top coffee table ideas - Being at the center of a room, a coffee table is a very important element of furniture. His responsibilities are many, including a place to put magazines, ...
Do-it-Yourself Terrain

Site Update! - I know, not super exciting, but still kinda exciting. DIY Terrain has been idle for some time now due to life being busy. Something I’m sure you’ve all ...
Rob Heinsoo

August 2016: My active blog lives at robheinsoo.blogspot.com - There are fun things in the gaming and ecdotes section of these archives. But I've had too much trouble posting to Livejournal to continue keeping this up...
Dungeon's Master

10 Most Common Mistakes DMs and Players Make in 5e D&D - If you’re like me you’ve been playing D&D a long time and 5e is not your introduction to this wonderful game. And if you’re like me you haven’t read every ...
The Kingworks Creative Blog

Untitled: Chapter 16 - This must be what being in shock feels like, thought Patrice as she ran behind Mr. Baine. But then, how am I able to think about it? Doesn't the fact that ...
The Old Guy's RPG Blog

Vanity, thy name is "A New Blog" - *"Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years..."* - apologies to LLCoolJ for the use of his lyrics. I've started a new blog. It's not the "OSR" blo...
Places to Go, People to Be

This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′ bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power halberd, a comb...
Epic Win FTW -Awesome Photos and Videos

Toy of the Day: You Can Now Buy an Action Figure of Vladimir Putin Riding a Bear - Meanwhile in Russia… you can now own an action figure of your favorite Russian president Vladimir Putin, shirtless and riding a bear. Finally! Radio Free E...
Games Alfresco

Optinvent Unveils consumer oriented ORA-X Smart Glass - Optinvent Unveils the Smart Glass that doesn’t make you look like a Creep The ORA-X is a revolutionary mobile device in a disruptive form factor – Forget...
Augmented Reality Blog

Welcome Our Newest Content Partner – Augmented Marketing! - We’re pleased to announce the newest addition to our Content Partners: Augmented Marketing! Headed by Wil McReynolds, Augmented Marketing is a Canada-based...
Lesbian Stripper Ninja

Return of the LSN? - I had forgotten this blog existed when someone on a forum mentioned the great Lesbian Stripper Ninja. I should probably write something about games, huh?
The Keep on the Gaming Lands

Prepping for Success - Last week, I wrote about working with success. By leaning into the players' success, you make your campaign more engaging and exciting. When you put your g...
Open Design

Brainstorm: Lost Cities, Strange Treasures - I'm in the mood to brainstorm something. Tell me of the cities of the Southlands, Nuria-Natal, Nurambeki, Shebai, and Ishadia. Tell me of the ruins in the ...
Story by the Throat!

A story means itself - Last fall, I took a Native American Studies course with the wonderful instructor Judy Bluehorse Skelton. Our text was extremely shallow and inadequate, but...
Some Space to Think

Time to Move - *Short version:* I'm shutting down this blog and moving over to walkingmind.evilhat.com . I'll leave the site up, but comments will be disabled, and I'll ...
F1337 Command™

Star Hero - Alien Race: Hurns - This is a single race designed for a Star Hero Campaign. The Hurn are a race of humanoids that inhabit a single planet that travels around a red dwarf. ...
greatcleave

rant 987 - forgive my long rant. feel free to ignore. by the way, this is not a cry for help. this is just an interesting observation about something today. most of ...
The RPG Athenaeum

New 4e item: The Looking Glass of the Ixenos - While reviewing some old campaign files, I happened across the following description of a magic item I invented for a 4e campaign a few years ago. The item...
Critical Gamers

World of Warcraft Deck Building Game Coming Spring 2012! - Originally posted on IcV2 - http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/21633.html Cryptozoic Entertainment has announced the Spring 2012 release of Clash of Champio...
RPG Diehard

After-action report: Tomorrow's War - After a supply ship was brought down by Neo-Soviet recon elements on the desert world Fornacis V, the decision was made to send in a retrieval squad from ...
In the Eye of the Beholder

D&D Campaign Mode - I’ve recently been reading Francesco Nepitello’s The One Ring roleplaying game. Chris Tulach picked up the book for me at Gen Con, after I mentioned how im...
The Yoko Critic

Quick Review: Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai - I can deal with anime, I can deal with the rampant consumerism of otaku I can deal with the weird looks of other people when I tell them I like Japanese ...
Sean K. Reynolds

Tiger, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Nat Geo photo) - National Geographic link
My Girlfriend is a DM

Review: Players’ Option: Heroes of Shadow, Part Two - In part one of our look at Players’ Option: Heroes of Shadow, we discussed the new classes and class builds. In this installment, we’re going to take a loo...
Initiative Or What?

The Future of Dungeons & Dragons - What if D&D 5e Had No DM? - Wow. My brain is still humming after last Friday's Twitter conversation. I had caught wind of, in my feed, of some discussion of what WotC (Wizards of the ...
Ready an Action

Timeless - So it’s been just over a year since I started this website. In that time I’ve put up over 44 unique encounters, all with stories, maps, new monsters, comba...
(Save Ends)

The Abyssal Plague: The Return of (SaveEnds) Blog - Hello everyone, this short post is to announce 2 great thing, (SaveEnds) blog is back on line, after a really short lived time (you just don’t get to decid...
Beneath the Screen

RPG Solitaire Challenge: Newsquest & The Librarian - *Blows the dust off of the blog* My word, that's better. Hello there, my lovely readers. Long time, no talk. Where to begin. Point the first: I have been ...
Logan Bonner

Moving on to Critical Hits - Sorry for my neglect, blog followers, but I totally forgot to explain that I've stopped updating this site. You can find my new posts in the Minor Quests co...
Con Planner feed for Gen Con 2010

Gen Con 2010 - Castle Panic - The activity, Castle Panic (Thu, Aug 5, 2010 9:00 AM - Thu, Aug 5, 2010 1:00 PM), has been created by Richard Downey.
Flavor Text

Overland travel - A possible way to handle overland travel in your campaign.
Eleven Foot Pole

Well, Obviously - I thought I should get around to formally conceding there's nothing going on on Eleven Foot Pole. * Yes, I am well and alive and happy. * No, I am not wri...
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The Core Mechanic

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Creative Mountain Games

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