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 […]
Mini-Fluff: Pathfinder #3 Preview
This is a continuing series of short posts on Paizo’s Pathfinder adventure path magazine. The image is Copyright 2007 Paizo Publishings I got issue #3 of this amazing OGL compliant adventure series about 2 weeks ago. Time for another capsule review/preview. Issue number one was about Crazy Gobbo’s and an insane Assinar. Issue number #2 […]
The Brooch of Hunting, Design Postmortem.
Did you see Dungeonmastering’s Top 50 RPG sites yet? It’s a good roundup of many of the great RPG-related sites out there. Of course the fact that I’m in 4th place has absolutely nothing to do with me pimping it right now. No Siree. Absolutely not! It never crossed my mind! As mentioned before, I […]
Mini-Fluff: Chatty's Top Fluff sources!
What better way to complete this week’s unofficial ‘become a DM’ theme and sandwich PM’s most excellent post with yet another Top 5 list? In order to balance my crunchy Ying with some fluffy Yang here’s a few words on my top Fluff books and boxed sets. Now since I’m not much of a fluff […]
The Overlord's bid for Superstar status!
Man, the suspense is killing me! When I first learned about Paizo’s American Idol-inspired RPG Superstar contest, I was intrigued but not that interested. While I have a certain knack for words and things D&D as well as non-professional experience in both department, being a RPG designer/writer was never seriously on my radar (As mentioned […]
Mini-Fluff: The DM's Fingerprint
I have started reading David Eddings again (and I just learned from a French reference at the bottom that his wife and co-author died shortly after Robert Jordan… this is sad) and it brought back a meta-literature discussion I have had in the last few years. I have read a lot of novels, a few […]
Mining Tropes for RPG Nuggets: What a Coincidence!
It’s been some time since I last posted an article in the Tropes series. What can I say? It’s been a busy 2 weeks! This post will tie in directly with tomorrow’s Adventure Prep post for this week’s game. There you are, sitting wherever it is you sit when preparing your next adventure. You want […]
Adventure Prep, Session 5: When Frustration leads to Inspiration
Okay, so this week’s game is a transition from my adaptation of the Vile Addiction adventure (From Dungeon Magazine #145) to its sequel, Spawn of Sehan from #146. Going in this week’s preparations, I had the following goals: Focus the adventure on the more impatient Butt Kickers like Eric and Math to make up for […]
Campaign Fluff Tools
Tonight I had planned to write an Adventure Prep post for this week’s game, but I don’t have a lot of time and will do it Tuesday evening. Instead I’m whipping up a short post on some Fluffy tools I use to better create a sense of immersion in our games.One of the walls of […]
Finding the Path: Pathfinder #2 First Impressions
Image Source: Paizo’s Pathfinder Wallpaper found here*. According to Google Analytics, the 1st search result that lands people here is ‘Pathfinder’ (at 11,6%), right before my ‘Nom de Plume‘ (which doesn’t mean ‘My name is Plum!’). So there seems to be some genuine interest in Paizo’s Pathfinder Adventure Magazine on the Web. Since I just […]
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