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We previously recommended some writing tips on adventures. Rather than talk about how to create a scenario or how to plot an adventure, I thought I’d focus on common pitfalls in the nuts and bolts of writing and presentation. You may find these useful for any adventure or community content...

Thankyou. Ah yes, ‘empty rolls’ my favourite bugbear! Coming up in part 2 :)

Writing an adventure is a good way to get into games writing. Most games companies are looking for more pre-written adventures as they are a good way to get people playing. While plenty of GMs write their own, many don’t have the time and given the choice between picking something off the shelf...

As we’re approaching the season for horror gaming, it’s worth considering some ways to surprise your players with something different but recognisable. It’s always good to revisit the classics, like zombies and werewolves etc. But the classics are so well known they can be predictable and even a...

The Midnight World is a standalone horror game from Gem and Eye RPG Studios. It was successfully funded on Kickstarter in March 2020 and now it’s out in the wild. Put simply, the Midnight World is a modern day horror game, with many shades of Kult, World of Darkness and Call of Cthulhu. But it...

Human… Almost is a new Blades in the Dark variant by our own Egg Embry. Obviously as he’s one of the EN Publishing team we’re a bit biased, but we’d not be doing a review if we didn’t like it. The game is currently being offered for free as Egg is looking for playtest feedback given the game is...

I’ve missed Gen Con, really missed it. I’ve been lucky enough to be a regular attendee for the last few years, and it’s become something of an addiction. I’ve met so many amazing people over the years, Gen Con has become less of a gaming con for me and more of an opportunity to hang out with...

Ok, I promised myself not to comment on threads like this but as I've just read a page of people talking about how I do or do not either run games or intend the article to be read, I clearly have to post something. The intent of the article is to offer another tool for the GM, not a map for how...

What if I told you it was possible to lock your players on a tight railroad, but make them think every decision they made mattered? Picture courtesy of Pixabay. While this may sound like the evil GM speaking, I have my reasons. Firstly, not every GM has time to craft a massive campaign. There...

While it’s all very well to talk about Gods and priests, religions are also very much about the ordinary men and women that follow it. How they practice a religion shows how it relates to a community and connects to everyday life. As I mentioned in a previous article, you need not be a faith...

In previous articles I’ve somewhat simplistically used priest as a standard term for a religious leader. It’s not the best option by any means but it’s a functional one at least in terms of “person who is leading the religious community in some way”. But even that is a very broad category and...

I should add, and should have added earlier, that while there are many, many titles for religious leaders and officiants, I use priest in the article as a general term, as the articles usually talk in general terms about religion, and mainly as I've got stuck in 2nd Edition. :)

This Storyteller’s Vault offering comes with a very experienced pedigree. Not only is there a lot of experience on the writing team, but one of them also worked on the official Sabbat book. FULL DISCLOSURE: I know members of the writing team. After the Camarilla and Anarch books it was hard...

As we mentioned in a previous article, you need not be a priest to follow a religion. So in this article we continue a look at religion in terms of how priests might relate to the religious communities they lead. Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Are Priests Divine? Every faith needs a body of...

I love RPG video games, but they might be causing some sub-optimal habits in our tabletop role playing. So what’s a GM to do about it? Picture courtesy of Pixabay. It's Dangerous to Go Alone. Take This (Advice)! Way back when, video games and RPGs weren’t too different. The video games often...

At the forefront of any discussion of religion in campaigns are the clerics and priests who organise, develop, and spread it. These people are often the PCs. Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Not Everybody’s a Cleric... Religion isn’t just for the holy and it need not be career oriented. There is...

I think it is worth remembering that this new 5e Who isn't replacing the new version of Adventures in Time and Space. There are some people who refuse to play much other than D&D and this brings that setting to them, plus offering a lot of cool new space and time stuff that might not be...

I very much disagree with you on that point. There is nothing depreciatory in that statement. I'm not saying 'religions that worship a god are rubbish' I'm saying defining any religion as 'you just worship a god' is rather simplistic and fails to cover many other religions, as well as rather...

Ah, big subject, and not one I'm sure I'm qualified to answer! Real world religion is tricky to make use of without offending people, but to a certain degree that is true of anything. I think the best option is to remember to respect each religion whether you believe in it or not and if you do...

It’s a very well known model for Religious study. So Google ‘Ninian Smart 7 dimensions and you’ll get a host of sites and discussion.