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Epic Win FTW -Awesome Photos and Videos

Marketing Campaign of the Day - Marketing Campaign of the Day: Betty White and Slash together at last in a series of surprisingly informative promo spots for the LA Zoo‘s new LAIR (Living...
paizo.com Recent Blog Entries in Store Blog

Shadows of the Past Come Home to Roost! - Past deceits and treachery will come to haunt Pathfinder agents in this month's Pathfinder Society Scenarios! Set in the realm of Minkai, "The Haunting o...
LivingDice.com

Paizo’s Pathfinder Society Plans Does Gen Con 2012 Right! - Paizo’s Pathfinder Society rarely merits mention on Livingdice because I do not participate in the campaign. Nothing against it, in fact I like the Pathfi...
Gothridge Manor

My Scores on Lulu - This morning I received a big coupon from Lulu. Coupons, now Ivy has me talking about them. For 29% off. Close to 30%. I grabbed a print copy of Realm...
Playing D&D With Porn Stars

Evil Mastermind from grognards.txt - Come out and play. I'm "fascinating" to you? Come over to the comments. We will have a conversation. EDIT: I'm serious. We'll talk about games and wh...
Nerd Approved - Gadgets and Gizmos

TARDIS-Shaped Words Are Cool - The Doctor’s TARDIS-shaped words. A poster of this design is available for $25. Product Page ($25 via blastr)
The Tao of D&D

Detailed Combat Posts - More Initiative & Movement - There are some additional aspects of breaking combat, joining combat and forcing a new initiative roll that I have yet to cover. Consider this example. ...
Penny Arcade

News Post: TERA part 2 - Gabe: NEWSFLASH, I made some people angry. I know it’s hard to believe. It seems a lot of people are upset about my post regarding the TERA beta. I’m a lit...
Fantasy Flight Games

Exploring the Doomed City - *Preview the Dust Tactics hero of Operation Zverograd* *No other nation in the world has endured as much punishment. No other bloc has suffered as many cas...
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

GM-Ordained Betrayal II - Here are some more thoughts on the GM-Ordained Betrayal idea. Brendan raised this point in the comments: "I wonder how the potential reveal would work thou...
Kobold Quarterly Magazine: Monsters and Magic for D&D Gamers

Your Whispering Homunculus: A Plethora of d12 Tables (Part 3 of 4) - Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of ...
Musings of the Chatty DM

Castle Death! A Dead Simple RPG for Kids and Parents, Part 1 - In which Chatty and Nico get ready to play a a Kid friendly RPG they co-develop as they play it. Beware of Castle Death!
Critical Hits

Castle Death! A Dead Simple RPG for Kids and Parents, Part 1 - In which Chatty and Nico get ready to play a a Kid friendly RPG they co-develop as they play it. Beware of Castle Death!
Dungeon's Master

Month in Review: February 2012 - February 1st marked our third anniversary here at Dungeon’s Master. It certainly doesn’t seem like three years have passed to us, but when we look through ...
Dice Monkey

Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Specialties and Milestones - Number of Views :34 Today, we’ll talk about Specialties and Milestones. Specialties are the Skills of the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Game. Every Specialty ...
Greywulf's Lair

Armour piercing bullet points - From the short-and-sweet-but-neatly-presented dep’t: DMDJ is an iphone app which lets you add sound effects to your gaming session. It’s rather jolly good....
Stargazer's World

Why Fudge needs a new edition - I’m assuming you guys already know what Fudge is. If not I recommend you check out the official Fudge site or my previous Fudge posts. After that, please c...
Wizards.com - Dungeons & Dragons

Blog: Favorite Class - Melech has learned the secret names of the stars. He has caught a glimpse of a realm far beyond the lamps of night. Though it nearly drove him insane, he g...
WorldWorksGames News

Prepare for the RISE! - Prepare for the RISE!
Massively

Massively Speaking Episode 188: Podcasting on two hours of sleep - Filed under: Podcasts, Aion, Dungeons and Dragons Online, EVE Online, News items, Opinion, Guild Wars 2, Massively Meta, The Secret World, Massively Spea...
Bat in the Attic

Origin of the name Majestic Wilderlands - When I first started working on Judges Guild project with Bob Bledsaw around 2000 I kept calling the Wilderlands, the Majestic Wilderlands. Bob didn't know...
The RPG Athenaeum

Game Night Blog Carnival: Carcassonne - This post represents the Athenaeum’s participation in Game Night Blog Carnival, through which RPG Bloggers post a review of a non-RPG game once each month....
Campaign Development for Busy DM

Minocra Campaign Map - Stocking the Island of Minocra I’ve spent a lot of time talking about encounter tables. Like, two Earth months. So at the risk of prattling on even more ab...
Geek Ken

The high level game and world barriers - Something hinted at from one of the more recent Legends and Lore series talks about high level games, how they sort of break down, and what should be your ...
Ari

February 27, 2012: Time for the Future - So, the *Foreshadows: Ghosts of Zero *anthology–which includes “ Twenty-One-Oh,” my own short story, as well as tales by a huge number of truly talented w...
theWeem

Typing Out Loud: Vancian 2.0 - There has been a LOT of discussion today regarding Vancian magic vs “Non”. It makes sense of course seeing as how the L&L poll put up today was about this ...
The Future Digital Life

2012 Nebula Award Nominees List - Every year the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America) gives awards to the best of that year and that award is called the Nebula. The Nebulas are differ...
Beyond the Black Gate

Moldvay - Your character doesn't know that - In this section, Moldvay says: "A player should not allow his or her character to act on information that character has no way of knowing (for example, att...
Points of Light

A Sundered World: Episode 105 - *Cast* - Iron Jack (made human invented warlord) - Danh (male goliath serpent shaman) - Lothelle (female moon elf bladesinger) Wandering through...
Sarah Darkmagic

A Richer Tapestry of Sexual Expression - I've been struggling for a while to figure out how to write this post. While I'm someone who often requests that we talk about sex and sexuality openly a...
Do-it-Yourself Terrain

Road to Badab Update - I’ve been busy with just about everything but posting lately, but here’s a few of the things I’ve been working on. The large badab game is quickly approac...
Masterplan

Version 11.7 - We’ve now released version 11.7 for you to download. New feaures in this update include a (slightly) redesigned encounter builder, the ability to create ra...
Dungeon Mastering

Top 10 Dragon Adventure Plots! - Welcome back to the column that breaks down gaming into what’s really important, ten things at a time! The dragons of D&D hold a much bigger place in the w...
The Kingworks Creative Blog

Tales of a Less-Desperate Part-Time Developer - I have been remiss in letting you, faithful reader, know that I was hired last Friday. I am working part-time at a web design firm learning Expression Engi...
Fear the Boot

Bonus Episode 43 – RPG origin stories - * (0:05) Dan falls victim to the flu. If you need a visual of how bad it is in our area, check out this map from the CDC! * (2:02) Fear the Con V could us...
The Grand Tapestry

I'm Over at Google+ - The power is back on in the arcology. They now have a genuine flying saucer, originally piloted by aliens -- cat-like aliens. Along with that, they've got ...
ars ludi

Top 100 - RPG Countdown compiled sales stats from 126 brick and mortar stores to figure out their top 100 selling RPGs of 2011. Microscope comes in at #23, which is ...
Jonathan Drain's D20 Source: Dungeons & Dragons Blog

The Challenge of Finding Epic Level Soap - Over at Critical Hits, Vanir (who you may remember from the blog Stupid Ranger) has written up a list of 10 epic level problems nobody thinks about. For in...
Story by the Throat!

Monsterhearts is Monster Love - At the time of this writing, the IndieGoGo fundraiser for Joe McDaldno’s story game Monsterhearts has about 24 hours to go, and it’s raised over $10,000, i...
www. Newbie DM .com

Dragon Age: Origins Story as a Tabletop Campaign - I’ve run through all the published adventures for the Dragon Age RPG, and now it’s time to move on to homebrew adventures. Rather than wreck my brain tryi...
This Way Lies Madness

Tweaking Ascension: Part 3 (Whole Deck) - This is my proposed deck. The previous suits have been chopped down even further. Lifebound: Wolf Shaman x3 Lunar Stag x3 Starchild x3 Granger x2 Snake Sh...
Some Space to Think

How I See The Credits - The Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Game rolled out today. It's awesome, simple as that, but I wanted to take a moment to throw up my own version of the credits...
Augmented Reality Blog

Weekest Links 2/13-2/19 - This is pretty week. metaio / junaio recap: A letter from our CEO and Co-Founder, Dr. Thomas Alt regarding metaio and the Mobile World Congress next week...
sword +1

The Wanderin' Elvii of Carcosa Want You! - I have mapped 2 levels of my forthcoming "Jale House Rock" Carcosa adventure (starring the Wandering Elvii). The main level is a small keep, with a dungeo...
F1337 Command™

Damage Types in your Fantasy Hero Campaign - One aspect of DnD 4e I like is the relationship between types of damage and defenses. In Hero System types of damage are handled by determining the kind...
Rob Heinsoo

When Bunny Slippers Go Bad - *Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duels at Mt. Skullzfyre* is out. I haven't seen a copy yet, but people are buying it from stores and I hope to tr...
In the Eye of the Beholder

4E House Rules - Updated as of February 11, 2012. I like to house rule my games, whether Dungeons & Dragons or board games. Here are a few of the most common D&D house rule...
Mad Brew Labs

Wild West Logo Design, Part I - Mad Brew shows you how to create a custom Wild West Logo for your campaign using Illustrator and Photoshop.
Places to Go, People to Be

Monday Pointers, Almost the end of January 2012 - D4:If this isn't a Dying Earth curse it should be So, Ancient Vaults gives us a bug covered in coins that also acts as a coin magnet. While the cursed dwar...
Buried Without Ceremony

The Joy of Hacking - In days past, I didn’t really “get” the appeal of hacking existing games. (A tentative definition of hacking, for anyone who doesn’t already know the term:...
Games Alfresco

Early Registration for ARE 2012 is Open! Join The World’s Largest Augmented Reality Event - Friends, colleagues, and augmented reality enthusiasts at large – the early registration for ARE 2012 is open! We are just 3 and a half months away from an...
blue collar space

Dance with me, 4e - (posted originally at Google+ — there will be more of that) I am going to talk about Fourth Edition Dungeons & Dragons now. It’s time because there is a lo...
RPG Blog II

A Few Friday Thoughts - -I would be remiss if I did not notice Wizards of the Coast’s gesture in doing a limited-edition run of the original 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragon...
WoW.com

Reader UI of the Week: Ring in the new year with something basic - *Each week, WoW Insider and Mathew McCurley bring you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs as well as Addon Spotlight, which spotlights the latest user in...
Initiative Or What?

New Year - BIG Changes - Greetings, Kids, and HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's the new year, and while you might have noticed that I didn't do a "year in review" type post, there's a good reas...
At Will

Multiclass Mondays #14 – Psionic Power - Welcome back to the final Multiclass Mondays! It’s been a long journey and I’m glad to see it finally complete. As much as I like writing long, continuing...
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

For sale: Painted Khador army for Warmachine - [EDIT: These have sold! I'll leave the post up for posterity's sake.] After almost seven idle years in the foam, it's time to part with my painted Warmachi...
The Old Guy's RPG Blog

Fin. - This blog is no longer actively maintained. This blog was a personal journey and exploration of an old guy who loves playing OD&D (Original 1974 D&D), AD&D...
Sean K. Reynolds

Sean's Beginner Box giveaway! - I spent five months working on this project, and it's finally available-the *Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box*! Paizo is having a Beginner Box Ba...
Gaming Brouhaha

Apocalypse World: Mis’igan - I’m still tweaking the map and need to add some additional labels, a frame, etc. but here’s the nearly finished map of Mis’igan, the setting of our Apocaly...
KABUKI KAISER

MESSING AROUND: WHEN A STAR FALLS - The whole UK adventures series were, as an Amazon reviewer said, well ahead of their time. Most of them involve a strong railroading, but not much more t...
StupidRanger.com

Behind the Screen: The indignity of a reboot… - My gaming group is a very dedicated group of roleplayers, however we don’t gather with a decent frequency. Even with a recap, notes, session journals and ...
Adventure Materials

Mini Map - Hey, all! I know it’s been a long time in coming, but attached to this post is a map for a one-shot dungeon crawl entitled The Eagle’s Landing. The ‘offici...
greatcleave

Dying Memories Logo/Cover Contest -
Sly Flourish

Test - This is a test
Power Word: Blog

Creating a character vs. Designing a character - You may think that this makes me a prick of a DM, but my intention is to encourage my players to see their characters less as a two dimensional avatar and ...
The Core Mechanic

Stories in the Ether, Volume 1 – Open Call For Submissions (@NevermetPress) - *This is a cross post from Nevermet Press* * * Today we are announcing a new product line at Nevermet Press, *Stories In The Ether*. This new anthology wil...
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 ...
The Fine Art of the TPK

So like a battered and broken partner that I am, I decided to let D&D back in... - But only a little bit! Really! I'm drawing lines on the floor now. There is a strict rulebook that we now follow, and morale-raising measures have been ...
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...
Mike's D&D Blog » Blog News

Getting Your D&D Fix Online - I have only played D&D once in the past 7 weeks, and so I often look for similar activities to sustain me through the drought (I’ve been watching Game of T...
The Keep on the Gaming Lands

Aedric, Sire of Beast and Storm - As the gods crafted mortals in their own image, so too did Aedric craft the beasts in his. The strongest of the gods had little use for words, so his child...
Tarrasqueous

Omcyclovores - It is said that in some universe where food was scarce and science powerful, these odd little creatures were created by a group of scientists to make use o...
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...
Save Versus Death

Save Versus Death Has Moved - The new blog can be found at www.saveversusdeath.com. Please update your bookmarks.
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 ...
Lesbian Stripper Ninja

Currently playing… - I loaded up Oblivion on the PC, downloaded a dozen mods to 'fix' the game, and it was still barely tolerable. The game feels lifeless, soulless, and meanin...
Open Design

Previews for Dark Deeds - Green Ronin has posted a (patron-generated) preview. Without spoiling anything, it does a really good job capturing the mood and some of the themes of the ...
The First-Person Observer

First-Person Observer News Broadcast: Episode 1 - Brought to you by Machinima.com, the First-Person Observer News Broadcast, Episode 1! Stories: Suspect in 1,337 Cops Slayings Released, Andrew Ryan Op-Ed: ...
Justin Achilli -- Blog

Send In the Clans - Fundamentally, clans and traditional RPG classes do the same thing. They represent how a player wants to play the game. When you choose a clan, you’re t...
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.
Exchange of Realities

RPG Blog Carnival April 2010: Let Me Show You My (N)PC - Just in time to ring in the new location, RPG Blog Carnival for April 2010 is right here on the Exchange of Realities! Into every game, a few NPCs tend to ...
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...
Creative Mountain Games

35th Annual Origins Awards Finalists - *35th Annual Origins Awards Finalists* (Click to Read More)

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