Because Gaming is More Than the Rules
Posted in Dungeon Mastering, Hero System, Information control, city building, locations, world building on Feb 25th, 2011
After I worked out some of the problems with how to start a tabletop game that was designed to be an MMORPG, I had to take the time to decide what kind of MMO I was creating. This was much easier, and much more fun, than solving my initial problems but that doesn’t mean that [...]
Posted in Conflict, D&D 4th, Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, Pathfinder, RPG, Roleplay, city building, storytelling, world building on Feb 24th, 2011
I have talked a number of times about my DM “notebook”. In actuality, it’s a series of text files, Word documents, and Excel spreadsheets that I use to save favorite creatures, story notes, and caveats for myself to never use something again. Today, I’ve decided to share with you one of my favorite low-level encounters. I [...]
Posted in Dungeon Mastering, Hero System, world building on Feb 23rd, 2011
My Wednesday night group has been without a game for the past few months now but I’m getting everyone back on the train with something new. Since our last game was D&D 4th I wanted to let people try something different and I didn’t want to use some generic fantasy setting, so I’m running a [...]
Posted in Magic, Pathfinder, Roleplay, items, storytelling on Feb 22nd, 2011
Some of you may remember that in this group of gamers we are quite fond of intelligent magic items and that we aren’t afraid to use those items to stir up trouble for our players. Well, in the spirit of creation I have decided to share an item that is dear to my heart: The [...]
Posted in Character interaction, Characters, RPG, Urbana Arcana, storytelling on Feb 21st, 2011
Please enjoy a look into my gaming table with this adventure log from my Urban Arcana campaign. Today’s post was brought to you by my friend Kelli AKA Tanya Nyx. August 18 – 2011 My day at work started out normally. I did some business around the club: signed for a couple delivery orders, made [...]
Posted in Characters, Hero System, Roleplay, Superheroes, backstories, storytelling on Feb 18th, 2011
As Cataclysm and his squad of nefarious super villains were carted away in holding cells, the people of Bastion City cheered triumphantly for their greatest heroes: The Guardians of Peace. Vanguard, Breakneck and Valkyrie stood before the people, their hands raised to silence the applause and adulation. The hero from another time, the fastest man [...]
Posted in Dungeon Mastering, Dungeons and dragons, RPG, Roleplay, backstories, city building, storytelling, world building on Feb 17th, 2011
Before the hippies in the audience get up in arms, I’m talking about campaign materials. (Also, I work mostly from my laptop when DM’ing so I don’t waste paper.) I’ve got an opportunity to run a campaign again and I’m going to be doing it in a new system. I’m running my first Pathfinder game. I [...]
Posted in Character interaction, Dungeon Mastering, Inter-player conflict, items on Feb 16th, 2011
Have you ever felt like your group of PCs is just a little too friendly with each other? Like everyone gets along just a little too well? I personally like to have a little bit of group drama when playing any game so that the players keep themselves busy even when they aren’t fighting enemies. [...]
Posted in Characters, Dungeons and dragons, Houserules, Magic, Roleplay on Feb 15th, 2011
Anyone who is familiar with 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder is acquainted with the spells per day system. Depending on your character level and your ability scores you are alloted a certain number of spells per day of the levels that you are able to cast. Unlike 4th edition which utilizes At Wills, a [...]
Posted in Character interaction, Characters, D&D 4th, Inter-player conflict, RPG, Roleplay on Feb 14th, 2011
In most of my posts, I’ve talked about creating a solid character and role-playing well, but I realized that I’ve left one glaring oversight that is perhaps the hardest feat in immersive roleplaying – being the first in your group to do it. It’s human nature to adjust your behavior to match the group you’re [...]
