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For any game I play, I prefer having a character who can talk to other people. I don't care if my character is some sort of warrior, a scholar, or a farmer, I want him to be able to interact verbally with NPCs. The reason for this is because it's what I consider to be the best, most unique...

I kind of think golden ages of past civilizations with magical wonders are the default for most D&D settings. It's where all those magical artifacts and dungeons come from.

You have a rate because the con represents a steady, reliable source of income and you don't want to kill the golden goose. If hotels or other accommodations are lacking, the con may very well decide to move elsewhere in the future either because their needs aren't being met.

Steampunk is considered a sub-genre of science fiction by most people. Space fantasy is of course a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But then people have been arguing about what science fiction is for more than a century now. I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I accept any...

They're just going back to D&D's roots with adventures like Expedition to Barrier Peaks or the inclusion of a cowboy complete with six shooters as a god in Greyhawk. Blending fantasy and science fiction was pretty popular in the 70s and 80s with Masters of the Universe, Krull, Thundarr the...

Yeah. Poor me didn't have an automobile. My wife dropped me off at the con in the morning and I walked back to the hotel late at night. I brought my trusty backpack with me which contained water and various snacks including homemade beef jerky. Over the years I've noticed CPM has also...

You have accomplished what I have never accomplished in my life! I salute you!

Because it's D&D. It's the same reason I saw an awful lot of Sailor backgrounds in D&D 2014. It wasn't so much about optimizing for story, it was about having access to Perception. I imagine this is a problem that will continue to plague backgrounds so long as you attach skills or attributes...

I don't know about anyone else, but I think Call of Cthulhu is really going to take off.

Still working on skiin. I put on a few layers of lighter skin and finally a flesh wash on the left half.

This is just a reminder about opacity and the importance of a good base coat. I'm putting the flesh colored base, Shadow Flesh from Pro Acryl, over a rather dark grey. On the left, you see one coat of flesh color. Notice the paint isn't completely opaque as you see the grey coming through on...

For Call of Cthulhu, I do very much recommend you have the players create their characters together, or at the very least, give them some parameters to work with. If you've got an antiquarian, a cab driver, a private detective, and a real estate lawyer investigating Cthulhu nonsense, it really...

I don't build a lot of terrain, but I love it! We always used flat maps for BTech and it's nice to see buildings and hills.

I don't care for apocalyptic cults very much. Or at the very least, I don't like cults whose goal is to destroy the world. Rather I prefer cults who have more realistic, human goals like attaining paradise, improving their lives, getting closer to god, etc., etc. Gumshoe has influenced me...

My advice is not to sweat it. Has it happened to me? Yes. But it's never been something that affected the scenario in any significant way. Is it really important to know the electric starter became near universal on new automobiles in the 1920s? Is it important to know the the started...

The very fact that it's both familiar and different is one of the reasons I think the 1920s make for a great setting. It's the modern era, so it's very familiar to all the players. We share a common language, eat similar foods, have the same history, we're familiar with the religions, and they...

One of my first experiences running CoC was "The Haunting," a classic adventure included in the core book for many editions. My players were have some exceptionally poor luck rolling, having failed pretty much every single investigatory roll they made whether it was Library Use at City Hall or...

I'll plug Vaesen as well. While you can certainly punch a troll in the face, most of the vaesen can't be taken care of in a permanent manner via physical combat. And the game play really encourages PCs to investigate via talking to NPCs, examining clues, doing research, etc., etc.