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Deepfakes, Fraud, and Digital Personal Copyright

February 10, 2020 by multiplexer

Pay us 10000 credits and no one has to know your CEO is an unrepentant monster.

This story opens in media res, in the middle of heart-pounding action as the US Congress passes a modification to the Communications Decency Act of 1996.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

A Day in the Life in the Danube Arcology

February 3, 2020 by multiplexer

Smart apartments. Smart people.

Adrian and Jeremy Osborne live in the Danube Arcology. Both are current employees of the Danube Corporation. They’re entitled to a The Smartment™: a product of the Danube Corporate Family.

Filed Under: Dungeonomics, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games, Science Fiction & Fantasy Genre

Godless Lands Chronicles: Of Goblins and Charlatans

March 4, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

We had two adventure hooks going in: working as an escort for a wagon bound for the frontier city of Phandalin. The second plot hook, provided by the party itself was that Phandalin was their next destination for their traveling tour!

Filed Under: Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, dnd 5e, the godless lands

D&D Beyond: From Trial to Adoption

February 25, 2019 by The Chatty DM

D&D Beyond is an amazing, albeit expensive tool that gives me 90% of what I need at the table. But the missing 10% can be real annoying.

Filed Under: Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Reviews, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, dnd beyond

Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter Now

February 19, 2019 by Dave

Sentinel Comics RPG GM Screen

We’re in the final week of the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game Kickstarter, and we’d love for you to check it out.

Filed Under: Featured, Newest Critical Hits, News, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: critical-hits studios, greater than games, SCRPG, Sentinels of the Multiverse

The Godless Lands: The Fall of The Divine

February 11, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

As players were picking their character’s classes, I noticed that no one was jostling to pick primary divine-powered classes like clerics or paladins. That gave me a new idea to support my Godless Lands setting.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, the godless lands

The Selesnya Brief: Introduction

February 8, 2019 by Dave

Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica

Three Parts Dead put the idea of a fantasy legal thriller in my head. And I knew the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica was coming out soon. Putting them together and The Selesnya Brief was born.

Filed Under: Adventure Prep, Campaign Logs, Critical Threats, Featured, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, magic the gathering, mtg, ravnica, the selesnya brief

The Godless Lands: The Troupe

February 6, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

Once we’d established the foundation of the Setting in which we’d play, we proceeded to create the party. True to the principles of Cheetoism, we gathered together, ordered food and discussed the character’s recent past to establish the adventuring party’s Raisons d’Etre.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, the godless lands

The Godless Lands: Genesis

February 4, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

As we settled on the core setting, the ideas of playing in a world were all the gods were violently snuffed more or less recently still churned in my mind. I decided that this was a theme I wanted to explore.

Filed Under: Actual Play, Adventure Prep, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: the godless lands

The Godless Lands – Concept

January 7, 2019 by The Chatty DM

"Graveyard of Dead Gods" by Shane Semler

An alternate cosmology for D&D, Pathfinder, and other d20 fantasy RPGs.

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Musings of the Chatty DM, Newest Critical Hits, Roleplaying Games Tagged With: dnd, the godless lands

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    Emily used to write for pen-and-paper RPGs (Steve Jackson Games, Guardians of Order, White Wolf). She disappeared into the AAA Game Industry for a while to "build an MMO" because "it sounded like fun." Then she wandered out and now writes about applying modern economic principles to very un-modern murder hobo and magic slinging wizard banker infested worlds. During the day she does crazy computer things. She has a husband, a child, and a small orange dog named for Arthur Schopenhauer. She reads history, politics, economics, and philosophy for fun.

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