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From the Archives: PCs Have NO Respect for the Property of Others…
Note: This post originally appeared in 2010 here. This will never not be true. Players are animals. Do you have this problem? I’d love to hear your take in the comments! It’s a frequent problem I’ve...
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From the Archives: Shorter Games Are More Cinematic Games
Note: This post originally appeared here. Having children really limits your time. Once I’m able to get gaming again, I assume we’ll be on the same schedule as I talk about here. The Game Knights get...
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From the Archives: Errata Isn’t in My Vocabulary
Errata anyone? Note: This post originally appeared here. I still believe it to be true. I prefer to avoid using errata if possible. Every couple months, RPG companies come out with their latest batch...
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Playing RPGs With Kids
So, I’ve recently tried delving a little into RPGs with my son. As seen in previous posts, I’ve played Heroica and Dungeon! with him, and he enjoyed those quite a bit. He’s actually been able to focus...
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Prepping the Campaign, Pt. 1: Concept
Come March, I’m going to try to run a D&D campaign. It’s been more than a year since I played D&D, and I miss it. I’ll be using D&D Next, and I’m still in the early planning stages. When...
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Prepping the Campaign, Pt. 2: The Rule Set
So, We’ve got a concept. Now we need a ruleset. Mind you, I won’t be deciding on the final concept before I have input from all of my players. So far, Bridget has voted for the Midnight Sun campaign,...
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Brand New Star Wars D6 Templates
I’ve posted two previous sets of D6 Templates (here and here). It’s been a while. I’ve got some more! Mostly Jedi, though not all. Enjoy. Of course, Click to Enbiggen.
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Transdimensional Knightmare Chess and Other Strangeness
I’m a big fan of remixing, mashing-up, and hacking tabletop games. Sometimes I combine components from multiple games. Sometimes I make action figures an integral part of my 1,000 Blank Cards deck....
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YOU are the Hero: Mashing Up Fighting Fantasy and Dice Age
I saw a comment on the Dice Age Facebook page asking how to use them for solo gaming. I’ve been playing around with the idea for a while and was going to use them to remix Dungeon!, but then I...
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Hacking the Humble D6
Break out your copy of Space Cadets and pull out those Jump Drive cards! Let’s hack some games! In Space Cadets, the player needs to roll 5 of a kind in order to Jump the ship to safety. The number...
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Stikfas + 1000 Blank Cards = StikBash!
StikBash was my first frankengame. At its core, it’s just a mash-up of KootiKooti, 1000 Blank Cards and Z-G. The original KootiKooti rules form the basis of StikBash (at the bottom of the page)....
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Locksmiths & Lookouts: Role-playing in the World of Monaco
I don’t really go in for computer games, but I have fallen absolutely in love with Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine. I think it’s because top-down games resemble board games. On top of that, I find...
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More Games or More Often?
I’ve been thinking about gaming a lot lately. Since I finished up university for the summer, most of the thoughts that went into my schoolwork have focused instead on gaming. This is a good thing....
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All Your Games, Toys, and Puzzles Are Belong To Flatpack
There’s a difference between games that are modded, hacked, remixed, and mashed-up and what I call a “real” Frankengame. A Frankengame is like the Winchester Mystery House: A sprawling mass of...
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Sticking It To The (Edge of the) Empire
By Michael P.: I don’t always do random things to dice, but when I do it’s exceptionally random. When I first tore up my Edge of the Empire beta, I completely ignored the dice stickers. After that...
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Why are Commonplace Weapons Not So Commonplace in Fantasy RPGs?
By Cirsova: (First, I’d like to apologize for never finishing my Liches vs. Vampires series. I had a lot of work to do that kept me from devoting the time I needed to on it, and by the time I did, I...
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Random Encounters (And Why They’re Not So Bad)
By Mark: Too often, a “Random Encounter” is seen as a combat encounter, one where a wandering monster stumbles upon your party and proceeds to eat your NPC companions before you even make it to the...
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“A 10′ x 10′ Room Where Their Sex and Alignment are Reversed by a Terrible...
By Cirsova: I know I may be double dipping here, but I’d like to hear some thoughts on the topic of character gender in game. Now, Dungeon Bastard once said something to the effect that in a game where...
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Dungeon and the DRGN Operating System
By Michael: Dungeon is still too boring, and I still feel the need to add stuff to it. I have a set of rune stones. Don’t ask how I got them. Anyway, after determining that they’re not magic rocks...
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Campaign Concepts: Frozen
BY MARK I took my kids to go see Frozen over the weekend. It was actually a really good movie, which managed to avoid the “damsel in distress” plot, and completely threw the idea of “true love” on its...
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