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Let Us Give Thanks: Chinese Harvest ...

Posted on Nov 27 2009 | 1 Comment

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... Read More »

Let Us Give Thanks: Homowo Festivals...

Posted on Nov 24 2009 | No Comments

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... Read More »

More Resources for Writing Adventure...

Posted on Nov 20 2009 | 2 Comments

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 DMing... Read More »

Web Resources about Writing Adventur...

Posted on Nov 19 2009 | No Comments

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... Read More »

Check Out Protodimension Magazine

Posted on Nov 10 2009 | 2 Comments

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 I’ll definitely be using... Read More »

Beyond ‘Fred’: Russian N...

Posted on Nov 06 2009 | 4 Comments

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... Read More »

Meadowbrook Needs You! Contest Exten...

Posted on Nov 03 2009 | 2 Comments

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 original contest... Read More »

Product Review: Kobold Quarterly #11

Posted on Nov 02 2009 | 4 Comments

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 City), 9 of which I could immediately... Read More »