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They live intermingled, yes - but even in Sigil, there are separate locations for creatures of different origin. If it's a melting pot, the result is a gumbo at best. Just because all sorts of different races within the same community, it doesn't mean that they have fully assimilated yet. Some...

Shadowrun is one of the most blatant kitchen sink settings out there. So I'd recommend taking a look at the Arcana Wiki, which basically takes a kitchen sink approach to gaming ideas taken from the real world. ;)

My first interview was published!

Just because members of different races live in the same city it doesn't mean that the ethnic tensions are gone. And each race can still live within its own ghetto - within the city. My own model is Terry Pratchett's Ankh-Morpork. There are quite a few mono-racial enclaves in the world, but in...

You might also consider my small-but-growing collection of Nightmare Fuel useful...

Yay! The Arcana Wiki has become Illuminated Site of the Week!

Well, here is my review. I hope you appreciate my efforts and give the review a good rating... ;)

Yeah, well... you live in an American mid-size city, with all those endlessly large city blocks - and thus, the possibility of running long stretches uninterrupted - which that implies. In my neighborhood, all the blocks are really tiny, and you have to cross streets all the time. And many of...

Hmmm... I had intended to write a review of it for my ENWorld blog anyway. I'll see what I can do.

Get the latest edition of GURPS Horror. The author dissects the horror genre like few other.

Just a piece of advice: Be careful when playing the Baseball game with it, or you might dislocate your shoulder joint when throwing the ball...

As long as your group is willing to accept a tiny bit of hand-waving, you should do fine.

Nice! Is this text available online somewhere?

Well, the latest recruiting drive seems to have worked nicely - right now, the Arcana Wiki has 25 members. Let's hope that the number of contributions increase in the same way...

Yesterday I bought a pair of wrist weights of 1 kg each to make the workout more efficiently. And they do seem to work - though I noticed that after 20-30 minutes of wearing them, I have great difficulties of hitting anything in the tennis game because my arms are so tired. But I guess that...

I've started a Terrain page on the Arcana Wiki, which should be a starting point.

The Arcana Wiki is now nearly two months old, and growing rapidly. So now I'm hoping to get some feedback so that I know in which direction to expand the wiki next. I'd be much obliged if you could answer some questions for me: 1. Have you heard of the Arcana Wiki before? 2. What do you think...

My guideline for DMs springing nasty surprises on the PCs is: You want to induce terror in the PCs for your own entertainment. If you just kill them off, their terror - and thus, your entertainment - is over too quickly, so you want them bloody, but alive.

That kind of stance can have its own downsides, however. While I want my players to be paranoid, I want them to be paranoid about plot developments and twists, not about dangers to their lives at every second of their existence. Taken too far, this could lead to the famous case of the party...

I've bought the books, but so far I've only run two short one-shot adventures (at 1st and 5th level, set in Urbis) to test out the system. It helped - I now have a better grasp of the rules and how to pace encounters.