Evil Machinations

No scenario survives contact with the PCs … No system survives contact with the GM

Let Us Give Thanks: Chinese Harvest Moon Festival

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 [...]

Let Us Give Thanks: Homowo Festivals or “Hoot at Hunger”

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 [...]

More Resources for Writing Adventures

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 [...]

Web Resources about Writing Adventures

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:
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6 Endangered Adventure Ideas. From Bard of Valiant. “This list of 10 [...]

Check Out Protodimension Magazine

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 [...]

Beyond ‘Fred’: Russian Names for Characters

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 [...]

Meadowbrook Needs You! Contest Extended

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 [...]

Product Review: Kobold Quarterly #11

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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