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RPG News for Wednesday, 26 December, 2012
I hope that everybody had a great Christmas, and got plenty of excellent gaming loot! If you have a quick spare second, "liking", "tweeting", or "Google+ing" EN World using the buttons at the top right of this page would be a fantastic little Xmas gift for which I'd be very grateful! Dungeons & Dragons News WotC has created a Random Inn Generator. I just rolled up the False Tanner, with 8...
Pretty Darn Fun (a look at new PDFs)
We hope you all had a good holiday, and more importantly, we hope you got all the rpgs that were on your wishlists. If you didn't, here are 14 interesting PDF offerings (and 3 adventures) from this past week. Cthulhu Britannica: Folklore I’ll admit that I have never been a fan of the Cthulhu mythos or game, but I can understand why so many people are. My wife once played in a long-term Call...
RPG News for Monday, 24 Dec, 2012
Announcing the Winner of Battle of the Bards 2012http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k2PiQh5YYE Community News EN World columnist Challenger RPG asks Fed up of Rolling Dice for High Level Players? followed by a discussion on Winterizing Your RPGs. Check out this awesome hand-made tile set. It's not strictly gaming news, but game designer Monte Cook's and Jen Page's web series Geek Seekers...
Fed up of Rolling Dice for High Level Players?
Are there times when you’re rolling more dice than role-playing? The players are asking you for modifiers and spell rulings more often than being creative? This tends to happen at high levels of play when the players have accumulated a fair number of spells, abilities, skills, and magical items. The game may get to the point where you’re doing more math than game playing. Advancement is cool...
RPG News for Friday, 21st Dec, 2012
Pathfinder News Today's Daily Deal over at the Pathfinder Kickstarter is an Old One Idol. Each Daily Deal is an in-game item that will give your character a little extra. The voting is now underway for RPG Superstar 2013 and the twist this year is that the fans vote for Round One. F. Wesley Schneider talks about Blood of the Night for the Pathfinder RPG - what type of vampire is right for...
RPG News for Thursday, 20 Dec, 2012
Pathfinder News http://paizo.com/image/product/catalog/PZO/PZO9252_180.jpegPaizo's site is having problems. I know exactly how that feels. Anyway, they say: "We're having issues with the Internets office-wide and are working on getting it back up and running asap. Stay tuned, and thanks for your patience!" Update - back up and running! Paizo says "The Land Rush is ON over at the...
Review of Mistborn Adventure Game (Part 2) by Crafty Games
Last week, I posted the Part 1 of a review of the Mistborn Adventure Game, a role-playing game based on Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy of fantasy novels. Crafty Games has used an indie style game system to translate the novels into a fantasy role-playing game with a unique character generation system and a fast dice-pool resolution system which is both story driven and player-character...
Experience Point: The Purpose of Walls
One of the first conversations I want to have with my players at the start of a campaign (assuming that we've already talked about player types) is the "buy in". This is where we have a big discussion about what this campaign is really all about. That campaign premise is not something dictated by me if I'm the GM. It's a conversation. I remember the discussion at the outset of my Gothic...
3G: Gandalf, Gollum, and Galadriel
I just saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Friday night with my wife, and I’m jonesing to play D&D. Unfortunately, it being the holiday season, my players’ schedules are all full, and there’s little chance of gaming until 2013. So while I have free time, I’ll be working on evoking the feel of the movie in my games in some way, shape, or form. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m always attracted...
RPG News for Wednesday, 19 Dec, 2012
Pathfinder RPG News Super Genius Games has acquired the Pathfinder post-apocalyptic setting Warlords of the Apocalypse from Adamant Entertainment. It was announced in 2010 but ran into problems. Garth-Michael Skarka says "We’re very glad ... that we were able to come to an agreement that honors not only WOTA, but the existing pre-order customers". Pre-order customers will now see their...
RPG News for Tuesday, 18 Dec, 2012
D&D News If you don't have it already, you can download yesterday's new D&D Next Playtest package. The forum discussion for it is here. Another tiny tidbit from Mike Mearls (see yesterday's news for some more): "Dead levels in [D&D Next] are a work in progress. We have some stuff - a save or die mechanic for the fighter - that we're working on." Take a look at golems and how they're...
How to Sabotage your RPG Session
Many GMs attempt to get their games to run smoothly. They minimize distractions, set the mood, and try to maximize the gaming experience for their players. As a player, it’s probably in your best interest to sabotage all the GM’s best laid plans, including the set-up of his gaming atmosphere. GMs may be able to use this article to their advantage by not doing anything outlined below and...
Review of Age of Cthulhu (Vol. V): The Long Reach of Evil by Goodman Games
There is something extraordinarily terrifying about Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Sure dealing with vampires and werewolves warring against each other is creepy at times, and everyone has their personal schemes for how they would survive the zombie apocalypse, but dealing with Cthulhu - or any of the other Great Old Ones - returning to claim the world is way beyond any sane person’s “coping...
Gamehackery: EN World: Community of Ideas
EN World is bouncing back from a devastating hacking. The databases are still there, and we still have our decade+ of history -- but the custom code that has accrued over the years has been compromised, and Morrus and his team are faced with the necessity to try to put it all back together again. I don't envy them. A little history lesson, even if you don't need it EN World started in...
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