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For the first time in a LONG time, I was actually free on Free RPG Day and decided to dig into my bag of tricks and bring something I was figuring few if any of the people there had ever seen before. I had picked up a copy of Fall of Magic after falling in love with a different game from the...

I was talking on Reddit yesterday with someone who was looking for a way to play Dread virtually for Halloween, and I was struck by how unexciting all of the Jenga replacements out there were. None of the replacements really seemed to capture and translate the shared threat and doom that a...

Found a REALLY cool world map generator. https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/ Features include political division overlays, weather, cultures, military borders, population. You name it.

I'm looking for recommendations for people's favorite one page dungeons and adventures. I'm trying to populate the last few corners of a West Marches style wilderness game and about 80-90% of the lists of one-pagers I'm going through all seem to be a little too far down the spectacle and gimik...

I'm starting up a West Marches Torchbearer game and, before I start hammering too hard on the Overland Travel "The Road" Playtest Package, does anyone know if an updated fanbase version exists out there? (especially one that includes river/water travel)? Barring that, can anyone point me to a...

I'm in the process of building a play-by-post Torchbearer/West Marches style game. We landed on using Slack as the backbone, and I've found two apps to handle the heavy lifting (a die roller and a text spoiler/obfuscator) The problem, is that I'd really really love to build my own app to...

I noticed earlier that I still had AIM, MSN, and Yahoo messenger handles attached to my account, and I can not for the life of me figure out how to get rid of them.

I was recently pointed towards a Twitter discussion where someone was trying to figure out what a particular set of dice was, and I've spent the past couple of days agonizing over it: https://twitter.com/TappyToeClaws/status/1034266381942960133 Each die appears to be identical, with one...

I have discovered that a game exists, but I have forgotten what the game is called. Thematically it's like the 1980s movie The Thing (though it's not the new Mondo Games boardgame). People play an assortment of scientist types trapped at an Antarctic research facility with a shapeshifting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMklcdzcNcU The really exciting part for me was around the 1:12 mark. The idea of being able to go from sketch to three dimensional environment while sitting at a game table makes my heart go all aflutter. Anyone out there planning on getting one of these yet?

For those who haven't heard about these things yet, there's a newish hybrid breed of RPG and boardgame called a "megagame" that's gaining popularity around the globe. Ars Technica recently wrote an article about them, the people who are making them, and the trials and tribulations they face...

I'm just starting the Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. It's a somewhat tongue in cheek Lovecraftian/spy thriller/math is magic book. I'm liking it so far.

I've been looking for a die roller app on and off pretty much since I got my first smartphone. Over the years there have been a lot of things I liked, but never anything I bothered to use or even keep installed in case of emergencies. Last week, I think I found a winner...

Is there an easy way to swap out the old Latest XP section at the bottom of usercp.php with the newer XP Awards and Laughs information?

I just stumbled on this via the newest Shut Up & Sit Down review: http://www.heartofthedeernicorn.com/fallofmagic/ The Kickstarter totally flew under my radar. Is there anyone on here who has played it?

So I was neck deep with work from pretty much the beginning of last summer straight through till mid November. As such, I totally missed any mention of the WOTC boards going down. Does anyone have any tricks up their sleeves as to how to best go about scouring the internet (or more likely the...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160108083918.htm Wait, what? Anyone here with the appropriate combinations of letters after their name who can go over this in layman's terms for us? Is it just "We've noticed that we can bend light with magnetic fields, so we're going to...

Ooooo! Someone made files for dragon... are they still considered miniatures when they're gargantuan? http://imgur.com/a/57Ypa

I'm neck deep in my first attempt at running a one shot 5th Ed game, and I see a stumbling block on the horizon. The game has been shaping up to be a combination chase/hex crawl, with four fifth level characters, that played out in maybe a four hour session. I was envisioning maybe three to...

A fight promoter in Russia has started mixing bouts between two armed and armored "knights" into their normal MMA lineup. My initial thoughts are that it's funny that they keep harping on the fact that the swords aren't sharp and how that's some kind of safety precaution, and that it's only a...