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The actual "story hour" to come later, I suppose. I wanted to start archiving characters first—both NPCs and PCs. I make character models using Hero Forge Pro. Some of them are a little older, but as new features and assets have been added, I've tried to make sure that things are upgraded to...

I'm going trawling through campaign books and adventure path like things, looking for some to read. There's obviously a bazillion of them out there. I'm looking to winnow down the list of ones I might want to read, however, to the best of the best. Couple of caveats: my tastes lean towards...

I noticed that the Return to Freeport compilation (Pathfinder style adventure path written by Green Ronin in their flagship setting from back in the day) was on sale 30% pdf on DriveThru, so I picked it up. I'm thinking of pulling up a lot of my old stuff and reading the adventures at least (and...

Barring that, just RPG buzzwords that you're sick of seeing tossed around. Some of these are a little on the older side, and a few are still new and faddish, but they've already become useless, IMO. Anyway, just a minor rant for amusement value. None of this should be taken too seriously. I...

https://x.com/chrisperkinsdnd/status/702518035622461440 So, simple question. Where would it be? I'm not some kind of super Realms scholar or anything, but I have pdfs of the Gray Box, the 2e Box and the 3e book. I've even read some of them! And I've read a fair number of novels over the years...

I'm a strong believer in the idea of chucking the "balanced party" paradigm. If a GM is passive-aggressively punishing players for playing the characters that they want to by making them fail if they don't have all of the roles from classic D&D TV Tropes party, then he needs to take a step back...

... It's multiple settings jammed together, and because the tone differs so much from region to region, any given campaign is usually best handled by treating the region you're in as if it's the whole setting. Ustalav, for instance, has a very specific tone, so if you have a campaign set there...

I have no idea what it was called, or who wrote it. I don't even know what setting it was in. But I remember very clearly picking it up because it had the same Larry Elmore cover as the Companion set; the one with the big green dragon. I remember it featured a main character who was a kind of...

Ready! Fight! Hadouken! Seriously, though—although my own interest and exposure to chinoiserie in fantasy is somewhat limited, I'm curious what people who are familiar with both settings think about them compared and contrasted to each other. Which one would you prefer, and why? What are the...

Years ago, I grabbed a rather tall, vertical Wayne Reynolds piece out of the Wizards art galleries. It features a few fighter types—dwarves, I think, being overwhelmed by a horde of undead. But now I can't find the file I grabbed, and I have no idea which book it was in. I'd look through my...

Let's say for the sake of argument that there's an adventure path centered around closing the Worldwound link to the Abyss and in the final adventure of the AP, the Worldwould is closed. Ahem. Does this mean that the setting has now changed--or is this just an adventure that happens for the...

I haven't played 5e. I may not for some time. We're still hip-deep in a Star Wars campaign with my group, and next on the docket is the Horror on the Orient Express campaign for Call of Cthulhu. It'll be better part of a year--at best--before we're back to D&D again, and frankly, with a group...

The other day the thought occurred to me: Pathfinder has been out for a pretty good while now. We're really digging into fairly esoteric rules supplements by now. Campaign setting supplements are now starting to repeat themselves (another Osirion book? What's wrong with the older Osirion...

I've been playing Star Wars, as run by another guy in our group, for the last few months. Curiously, although we're pretty heavily invested in the d20 system, we are not using the d20 Star Wars (any of the three versions), but a bunch of house-rules that the GM came up with to the OGL himself...

I haven't really been a regular 'round here in quite some time, but since I've been poking around the last week or so, I thought I'd give a quick and dirty gaming update of what I've been up to. I used to be known, by those few who paid attention to me at all, as a guy who was always looking to...

One of my favorite little innovations (after CMD and CMB) to Pathfinder is the Haunt. I love this concept. Even though I largely have abandoned games as complex as Pathfinder (or even 3.5, when I can help it) in favor of things like m20, the Haunt is still a superbly useful innovation, that's...

As the sun sets over the rock-ringed harbor of Bara Gairo, the small fishing fleet are throwing their hawsers to the docks and starting to unload a day's worth of catch--dolphin fish, tuna from beyond the shoals, jacks, snooks, and even an occasional marlin. Dinner for tomorrow at Lima's...

Thread for proposed "all rogues" Pathfinder game. Content to be added as needed. Will take 3-5 players. If interested, propose a race/class/archetype combination to start with, and we'll see how it works. I'll repeat the paramaters posted in the original thread where this idea originated...

It seems like I've seen a lot of discussion about play style preferences and stuff like that in the last little bit, here, in the blogosphere and elsewhere. As I've been thinking about that, I realize that my answers to a lot of the questions isn't really one size fits all. For example, most...

Gene Roddenberry famously pitched Star Trek as "Wagon Train to the stars." For a long time, I've had a concept bubbling around in the back of my mind that could probably be called "Wagon Train to the Planes," a game where planar travel through different planar conjunctions was the whole point...