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This is a thread started with the hope that we can converse about sandbox play without acrimony. The point is to talk about your successful sandbox campaigns. Just post about your campaigns, what tools you use, how you prep, etc. Let's try not to argue. If someone pops in and starts a debate, my...

If there is another thread on this my apologies, but just started watching Star Trek original series revised from Paramount. I haven't seen the original series in a while but have been meaning to check these out as I have heard good things. I am occasionally going back and watching an un-revised...

Ranking My favorite I, Claudius characters (not my favorite historical figures, but rather as they were depicted in the show as characters). Everyone on this is magnificent, but some I liked better than others. The one and two spot are a real toss up. I could easily have swapped that but in the...

I wrote this adventure based on the movie Dragon Missile after someone was asking about ways to make it work in Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades

I put up three adventures on my blog for Strange Tales of Songling this month: The Bride of Liao Manor: A mystery adventure involving a series of unexplained murders. The Frog God's Daughter: A monster hunt involving a local frog deity who is eating villagers as retribution for his...

Just posted this Halloween adventure of my Strange Tales of Songling system on my blog.

Posted this adventure on my blog. It was something that came up in my Paths from Nowhere Campaign but I decided to take my notes and rework them for more general use. It is a supernatural wuxia adventure for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, designed for a high level party (but it can be run for...

For those who don't know, Cheng Pei-Pei, the star of Come Drink with Me, who is also known for her role as Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, passed away today. She is one of my favorite action stars from the late-60s and early 70s. She had an amazing screen presence, was graceful and...

This is a thread for discussion all things Ravenloft, from all editions and eras. Post what you loved, what you didn't, what your favorite and least favorite version are, talk about adventures, Van Richten Supplements and the various boxed sets and hardback volumes. Anything Ravenloft is on the...

Inspired by @Snarf Zagyg 's ranked threads, I wanted to rank Kung Hu movies. Not sure how many fans of King Hu we have here but I think he was an incredible director. If anyone hasn't seen him, I highly recommend checking out his films. I just watched Raining in the Mountain the other night and...

Thinking of doing a short five deadly venoms campaign, either with players actually taking on the role of the venoms or as a party taking effectively in the role of the Final Student sent to investigate the Five Venoms (would make a lot of changes in order to maintain the surprise of the...

One of the issues I run into in my wuxia campaigns is the management and growth of sects, especially when players become leaders of such organizations. I've tried a wide number of approaches from getting into very specific bookkeeping and tracking, to more abstract domain management-style rules...

I have been using random passages from books as a way to randomize in my campaigns. Wrote a bit about it HERE today. Basically anytime you need an NPC, an encounter, an adventure, you flip to a random passage and use that for inspiration.

This is a thread for running old modules and sharing about the experience. These can be old favorites, classics you've never tried before, or modules you are running purely to explore the history of the hobby. I recently started running the Book of Crypts anthology adventure for Ravenloft...

I am a putting together a target number suggestion list today (going with Easy, Challenging and Hard). As this came up in another thread, I am curious what do tiers like this mean to you. For example if something is labeled easy, how often do you expect a skilled, versus an unskilled, versus a...

This is a thread for posting about how you run and prepare for sandbox games, what style GMing you bring to the table, etc. If you have experience and thoughts on sandbox campaigns, post away!

Just a general discussion for the 2E Ravenloft. Interested in knowing which versions of TSR Ravenloft people preferred (Black Box, Red Box, or Domains of Dread).

Curious how other people approach wuxia-style campaigns (regardless of system). How do you run a campaign inspired by movies and books like Come Drink with Me, Condor Heroes, House of Flying Daggers, Sword of the Third Young Master, or Bride with White Hair?

What do people have planned for Halloween?

Thought it might be cool to start a general history RPG thread. How do you approach running a game set in real world history? Any times and places you think are particularly well suited to RPG adventures? Recommended books, primary sources, breakdowns and historical atlases?