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The Pain of Campaigning III: The Plot Thickens

November 26, 2007 by The Main Event

So, assuming you’ve considered pre-campaign decisions and successfully started your game its now time to keep running a campaign. Not just treading water, but also have it be interesting, engaging, and fun. Maintaining interest, engagement, and enjoyment from all players and a DM can be incredibly difficult, but here are some of the most common […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games

The Perfect Game

November 23, 2007 by Dave

I was talking to a fellow designer a few weeks back, and we were discussing the designing a game for a specific audience. While we both agreed that it’s very important when marketing to someone, he didn’t think it was as important when designing. I felt that in any kind of creative design, it’s important […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, Featured

Inq. of the Week: Best. Game. Ever.

November 19, 2007 by Dave

I’ve decided to let last week’s poll on what kind of games you play run for another week to try to get a few more responses in. It’s great to see that everybody that comes here plays some kind of games, and there are many (like myself and Wooglin) that play everything! “We do not […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Roleplaying Games, Video Games

The Pain of Campaigning II: Starting the Game

November 12, 2007 by The Main Event

So you have made some decisions about your game. You may have drawn yourself a pretty map, figured out that the King is actually a Beholder, and even made a cute little NPC to travel with the players. If you were really smart you considered the campaign’s primary conflict, means of conflict resolution, and a […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games

Such Wondrous Dimensions

November 7, 2007 by Bartoneus

I really could not resist coming up with a few joke ideas for the RPG Superstar contest, the problem is that I’m also very interested in seriously entering but all I have spent time on is things like you see here.  It seems like some of the steps in this contest will be harder to […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre, The Architect DM Tagged With: Allspark, D&D, Random Encounter, RPGsuperstar, Transformers, Wondrous Item

The Pain of Campaigning I: Story and Pre-Game Decisions

November 4, 2007 by The Main Event

Perhaps the most important decisions in a campaign occurs before the first die is rolled, before there even is a campaign when the would-be Dungeon Master/ Game Master/ Storyteller decides the overall thrust of his story. No, not the nitty-gritty adventure hooks, or the villains, or the individual conflicts, but an overall idea of what […]

Filed Under: Editorial, Featured, Pain of Publication, Roleplaying Games

Plot Arcs and Themes: The Stories that Games Tell

November 3, 2007 by Dave

There are two (and sometimes three) ways that games tell stories. There’s the theme, which is the conceptual framework given to us by the game to understand it and give us motivation. For example, in my game Get Bit!, you’re told that you are swimming away from a voracious shark. This gives you the prime […]

Filed Under: Board, Card, and Miniature Games, Critical Threats, Featured

Messiah CompleX: Not Quite the Second Coming (Non-Spoiler)

October 31, 2007 by The Main Event

General: When Jesus was born, there were wise kings, gifts, angelic visits, and immaculate conceptions. When the X-Office at Marvel kicked off its brand new crossover Messiah CompleX, they hired old artist Marc Silvestri , released tons of interviews with major comic book industry entities, discussed tidbits about the X-Men status quo after the event, […]

Filed Under: Comics, Featured, Reviews Tagged With: marvel, x-men

Inq. of the Week: Webvertising

October 29, 2007 by Dave

Transformers! More than meets the eye. Transformers! Better than expected but still meh. Many of you felt it was pretty damn good too, so that sounds like a success overall. I watched it the night after the poll was posted, and found many, many flaws but was quite impressed by Shia LeBeouf. I can see […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week

Inq. of the Week: You Review Transformers

October 22, 2007 by Bartoneus

With Dragons emerging bloodstained and well fed as the victors of our Ultimate Showdown, Dave decided to find out who you guys think is the most popular dragon.  Trogdor the Burninator came out on top, with a very well deserved second going to the gem-encrusted Smaug from The Hobbit.  There seemed to be some contention over Fin Fang […]

Filed Under: Featured, Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Inquisition of the Week, Movies, Optimus Prime, Reviews, Transformers

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