 Visit Our Sponsors | | | | | Reviews | | Critter Cache 6: Lovecraftian Bestiary | | | | To my perception, one of the biggest hits among Game Masters, is a big old book of monsters. When Chaosium had opportunity under the OGL and their deal with Wizards of the Coast, who produced a full... [Read More] | | | | Wilderlands of High Fantasy | | | | The background, this was the first setting published for D&D predating Greyhawk. It was published in a number of parts with the City State of the Invincible Overlord and Wilderlands of High... [Read More] | | | | RuneQuest 2 | | | | Runequest is set in the world of Glorantha, which was created by Greg Stafford originally and used as the setting for the White Bear Red Moon boardgame. This has several features which were unusual... [Read More] | | | | Hero's Handbook: Eladrin | | | | As a primary game master, Hero’s Handbook, Eladrin, pleasantly surprised me. The book includes a wide range of information that will be useful to gamers of different stripes. The tome is illustrated... [Read More] | | | | Forgotten Heroes: Scythe & Shroud | | | | Forgotten Heroes Scythe and Shroud introduces the new power source Death and with it, four new classes. To me, a power source is merely an ‘effect’. Much like the Hero game system where you can have... [Read More] | | | | | The world's premier fan community for Dungeons & Dragons news and more! | | | | Friday, 6 November, 2009 | | |  Site News
New column from EN World columnist Ari Marmell! "Not All Fun and Games" deals with the dilemma of gaming feeling like work for a game designer.You know, if I keep starting my columns with confessions and admissions, Morrus is going to start charging me for therapy. Still...
I can't run games the way I used to.
For most of my gaming life, DMing was far and away my priority, and my favorite role to take on. And I started that life early--got the good ol' Red Box as a gift in 1983, and never once looked back.
Of course, to be fair, what I was doing when I was nine years old was "DMing" in much the same way that going into the back yard to piss on a tree is "gardening." At that age, I so completely misunderstood some fundamental aspects of the game that, the first time I tried to run a friend through a module (Keep on the Borderlands, naturally), I handed him the map as a visual prop and just had him encounter every room or area in the order they were written in the book.
Yeah, I had me some learning to do.
Click here to continue reading or comment on this article!
Pathfinder News- Two is Better than One!The Taddol, a 2-headed (1 character sheet) PC race was released today for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game by Alluria Publishing.
Other News- Clan of the Grey Wolf The Clan of the Grey Wolf is a new gaming website dedicated to console gaming and RPGs. They are doing a charity event for Child's Play on 27 November.
"After working on this in the background for months, we can finally let the lid off our biggest project yet. Starting November 27, the day after Thanksgiving, we're going to hold a 1,000 song Rock Band Marathon for charity. All proceeds will be given to Child's Play, which (if you are not familiar with them) is a charity which donates toys, games, and books to children's hospitals worldwide. You will notice a ChipIn widget in the right sidebar that will allow you to donate money directly to Child's Play using PayPal. This will be active on the site from now until December 6."
| | | | Thursday, 5 November, 2009 | | |  Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
Remember, remember the fifth of November,The gunpowder treason and plot,I know of no reasonWhy the gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes belonged to a group of Roman Catholic restorationists from England who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Their aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James I and the aristocracy were inside.
The Gunpowder Plot was led by Robert Catesby, but Fawkes was put in charge of its execution. He was arrested a few hours before the planned explosion, during a search of the cellars underneath Parliament in the early hours of 5 November.
Guy Fawkes Night (or "bonfire night"), held on 5 November in the United Kingdom and some parts of the Commonwealth, is a commemoration of the plot, during which an effigy of Fawkes is burned, often accompanied by a fireworks display. The word "guy", meaning "man" or "person", is derived from his name.
What does this have to do with gaming? Not a lot! But historical plots such as these can provide great inspiration for your own adventures.
Pathfinder News- Sanity Rules for Pathfinder Why break bones when minds are so fragile? Check out these sanity rules for Pathfinder at Kobold Quarterly.
Other News | | | | Latest Content! | | NEW COLUMNS &
ARTICLES
| NEW SUBSCRIBER CONTENT |
| | Meet Our Columnists! |  | Erik
Mona
Publisher
Erik Mona is the
publisher of Paizo Publishing, LLC, creators of the Pathfinder Roleplaying
Game and the Planet Stories
line of pulp fantasy novels. Mona has won more than a dozen major game
industry awards and his writing has been published by Paizo, Wizards of
the Coast, Green Ronin Publishing, and The MIT Press.
An avid collector of pulp magazines and old science fiction paperbacks,
Mona spends most of his scant free time reading old fiction and posting
about it online.
He lives in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle,
Washington.
| | Ari Marmell
Writer
Ari Marmell is a
novelist and freelance RPG writer who would be even more productive if
he could stop writing multi-hundred-word replies to threads on EN
World. A gamer since 1983 (the Red Box, of course), he studied creative
writing at the University of Houston and began writing professionally
in early 2001. He’s written RPG materials for numerous
companies, including Paizo, Green Ronin, Necromancer, EN Publishing,
White Wolf, and Wizards of the Coast. His fiction credits include,
among others, Agents of Artifice
for the Magic:
The Gathering line, and The Conqueror’s
Shadow (forthcoming from
Bantam Spectra).
Ari currently lives in Austin,
Texas, with his wife George, two cats, and a litter of neuroses.
|  | Jonny Nexus
Author
Jonny's critically acclaimed comedic novel Game Night will be featured right here on EN World for free in regular installments!
There are many books that aim to celebrate the good in roleplaying and improve the roleplaying skills of their readers. Game Night isn't one of them. Sorry. It is instead the rather good and Gen Con ENnie award nominated fantasy humour novel of six roleplaying gods and their cosmically dysfunctional game.
|  | Ryan
Nock
Writer
Ryan Nock was the lead
designer of the critically acclaimed War of the Burning Sky
campaign saga for EN Publishing, along with numerous other projects.
An aspiring novelist, he presents here his War of the Burning Sky
novel in a serialized format.
Ryan lives in Georgia, and enjoys traveling
to Brazil.
|
| | And yet another word from our sponsors | | | | | | | | | | | Community Supporter Subscriptions |
LATEST EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FOR SUBSCRIBERS
| | Visit Our Sponsors... Again | | | | |
EN World D&D / RPG News
