Here I sit, mentally preparing myself for the next half of our D&D 07-08 season. As I promised my players almost 5 months ago, I’m sending them Plane-hoping in the Great Cosmic Wheel. I’m done reading Planescape and while I love the setting’s potential, I was rather irritated by the late 90’s “Storytelling is a […]
DM Chronicles, Session 8: Heroic Conclusions
Previously in Phil’s game: Our Heroes beat the leader of the Cult of Sehan and various other aberrations in an ancient tomb that predates modern Ptolus. After a short rest on Andach’s island, they returned, searching for a way to that pool of glowing green slime that may or may not contain Sehan. They had […]
Adventure Prep: Finishing a Campaign Arc
This Friday is the year’s last game session. It also coincides with the last session of the Seed of Sehan campaign arc I adapted from Dungeon Magazine to Ptolus. See here for the whole Campaign so far… As mentioned before, the game has been prepared for quite some time now and I’ve had time to […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Ice Ice Baby!
This morning, I posted about my Winter adventures on the forums here. That’s my car if you were wondering… after I dug it out! Shortly after, Omnius, who’s allergic to snow I’m told, wrote a good weather-themed post. Well all that snow and ice also inspired me to go dig in the TV tropes site […]
RPG Lessons from my kids: Never curb your enthusiasm!
Have you ever noticed that bloggers have a tendency to take whatever thing that happened in their life lately and write all the post of the following days about that very thing… Well I’m no exception… 🙂 I got the idea for this post while my 5 year-old son was very enthusiastically beating my Mii […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: Gravity? Pfaa!
It’s been quite some time I’ve posted an honest to goodness, fluff-rich Mining Tropes post. I’m also nearing the end of the tropes fueled by the Rule of Cool, so I combined two tropes that share a certain ‘airy’ theme as a tribute to a sub-series I really enjoyed writing! Asian Wire-fu and Anime is […]
PWW: Challenging the Inner Half-Orc
Hurrah! It’s time for another PM post! Do you know what happens when you leave your inner half-orc in a closet for too long? First, you start talking about him using the 3rd person. Second, he builds up an immense amount of RPG inertia and should he ever gain momentum, he could do something very […]
The Dungeonmaster's Creed
This is a repost from Greywulf’s blog. It rings true enough to my needs as a role player to warrant a re-post. Although I can live with 3 core books… 😀 Maybe if enough of us post this, some wizards who work by the sea will take notice. If you agree, please say so in […]
DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 2
Blog lessons learned: Never post a ‘Part one’ on Wednesday night… it guarantees no comments on the highest traffic day! Next time’ 2 entries articles’ will posted on same day with a few hours in between. See here for part 1. When a Custom Scene Blows Up in Your Face So the players made their […]
DM Chronicles, Session 7: Of Performing Crunch and Norming Fluff, Part 1
Image Source: Paizo’s Pathfinder, Lamia Matriarch, copyright 2007 Paizo publishing (under Fair Use). Please note that this post features spoilers of Paizo’s Pathfinder #2, more precisely the nature of it’s boss monster. Previously in Phil’s game: The heroes vanquished the last Child of Sehan, squared off against a Succubus (and won), dodged deadly traps and […]
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