From the Paizo Newswire: Pathfinder™ to continue under the 3.5 rules. Tuesday, March 19th, 2008 Paizo Publishing today unveiled the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, a tabletop fantasy roleplaying game that will serve as the anchor for the company’s popular line of Pathfinder adventures, sourcebooks, and campaigns. Today marks the beginning of a year-long Open Playtest of […]
DM Chronicles, Session 13: Of Moons and Xanathos Railroads, Part 1
This post is part of a series that chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign. To say that last Friday’s game wasn’t intense would be a bald faced lie… it just wasn’t intense for the reasons I planned for. This time around I won’t go into details of our actual story. First because it get so […]
Not Dead… but not all that well either…
This post is going to get a bit personal feel free to skip… 🙂 As you may have noticed, the flow of posts has slowed down in the last few weeks. I’m dealing with a certain amount of stress-induced anxiety related to both my job and the blog (The family and my physical health are […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: The Crowning Moment of a Character
As I reading through the recent changes on TVtropes.org, I stumbled upon a Trope whose application to RPGs is as simple as it is brilliant: Crowning Moment Of Awesome The moment in a show when a character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the eternal loyalty of fans. While […]
Ending a Campaign: a Few Tips
It’s no secret that with the advent of the next edition of D&D, I have endings on the mind. While I’ve still got to make my final decision to adopt 4e upon reading the new Core books over the summer, chances are we are going to go the 4e way. I know many others are […]
You want to end… D&D? White Wolf’s ready…
I’m not dead… I’ve hit one of those deadly pockets of ‘work’ that drain all energy and creativity from your being. Plus my Friday game is not yet ready. If I finish early tonight, I’ll put up a short ‘ending your campaign’ post with tips. In the meantime, here’s something interesting that Tommi sent me. […]
Adventure Prep: Planning Ahead for the End
This series covers the thoughts that go behind my Adventure Preps. I don’t go into details as my players read this blog, but I try to showcase the key challenges and choices I face every time I sit down in the days before we play. Game week again! For those who don’t know, our group […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: This is the End, Friend
No no, I’m not ending this series, no worries. As mentioned here, I’m exploring “Endings” as applied to RPG campaigns… Many long-lasting Role playing campaigns based on power-gaining PCs hinge around a progressively increasing threat that almost invariably escalate to the World Destroying level. The threat usually takes the form of an impeding Cataclysm that […]
Theme Week: Endings
As I was planning my blogging week I realized that I had a running theme going on. So much so that I decided to make it official! Since I’m planning the end of my D&D 3.5 campaign in the next 3 months, I decided to spend the week dealing with endings of all kinds: Today’s […]
Pathfinder #6 preview and conclusion: The Lost City of Adventure’s End
I just got the notification that issue #7 was shipped this week. That made me realize that I had to write a short blurb on the final issue of Paizo’s Rise of Runelords Adventure Path. Issue #6: Spires of Xin-Shalast brings the stories of ancient, evil Sin-magic and the old empires based on them to […]
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