Jade | November 27, 2009
With this being Thanksgiving weekend here in the US, I got to thinking about harvest festivals in general. I rarely see harvest celebrations in RPGs and yet in real life, they’ve been an important part of life throughout at least a large part of human history. Harvest festivals bring families and communities together; surely our [...]
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Jade | November 24, 2009
With this being Thanksgiving weekend here in the US, I got to thinking about harvest festivals in general. I rarely see harvest celebrations in RPGs and yet in real life, they’ve been an important part of life throughout at least a large part of human history. Harvest festivals bring families and communities together; surely our [...]
Category: Worldbuilding |
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Tags: celebrations, festivals, give thanks, harvest
Jade | November 20, 2009
Here’s the continuation of yesterday’s post on web resources for writing adventures:
9 Tips for Running Your First Convention Game. This is one of mine. On designing up and running conventions scenarios.
30 Fiction Writing Tips That Will Make You a Better DM. From Dungeon Mastering Blog. A three-part series of quick tips to help improve your [...]
Category: Campaign creation |
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Jade | November 19, 2009
We all struggle with it (well, at least many of us struggle with it) — how do you write an adventure that your players will love? Here’s a collection of adventure creation resources available on the web:
(Photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/nataliehg/ / CC BY 2.0)
6 Endangered Adventure Ideas. From Bard of Valiant. “This list of 10 [...]
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Jade | November 10, 2009
I stumbled across this ‘zine while checking out my stats. They did a very nice write-up of my adventure creation with the 6 W’s post (Thanks!). If you’re looking for all things conspiracy-related, this ‘zine is a must. I love playing with conspiracies (probably too much for my players’ own good ) and [...]
Category: GM tools, Product Reviews |
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Jade | November 6, 2009
Sometimes the hardest part of building a character is coming up with a good name. You can always take a name from Tolkien or other fantasy novels, but you’ve seen those names over and over and you want something a little different, but not way out there. How about an historical name? Or one from [...]
Category: Building characters |
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Tags: beyond fred, character creation, names, russian
Jade | November 3, 2009
Since I’ve only received one entry for this contest, I’ve decided to extend the contest through the end of November. So, if you haven’t been wanting to enter but haven’t had the chance to get to it, you’ve still got time. I’ll post the winner in early December.
Just for reference, here’s a link to the [...]
Category: Contest, Meadowbrook |
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Jade | November 2, 2009
I thumbed through my advanced copy of KQ #11 (okay, since it’s a PDF, I didn’t exactly thumb – more paged down through) — the first issue of KQ I’d ever seen, and started to feel the excitement I used to have when looking through early issues of Dragon magazine.
15 articles (counting Maps and Free [...]
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Tags: campaign ideas, gming, players, reviews