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Roles, Rules, and Rolls: D&D Is Not A Role-Playing Game

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Wednesday, 8 September 2010. D&D Is Not A Role-Playing Game. Well, at least the original edition was not a game about role-playing. Any more than Clue is. In both games you get a character to pilot. It's up to you whether you are going to speak in character, allow the character's identity to influence your play choices. You can get all professorial as Professor Plum and make a bee line to the library, or you can just plod along as a competent problem-solver with a purple pawn. Of course, there is a side ...

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Joli | Story by the Throat!

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Story by the Throat! Relentlessly pursuing story in roleplaying, in art, in life. Tell Your Story, Ask a Question, Listen Generously. The Dreaming Crucible storytelling game. Author Archive for Joli St. Patrick. A story means itself. The Secret of Roan Inish. Last fall, I took a Native American Studies course with the wonderful instructor Judy Bluehorse Skelton. Our text. Calls this “ Killing Fairies. It’s a difficult paradox: how. Which is not to say I wish to disengage my critical brain when I encounte...

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Roles, Rules, and Rolls: Security Through Oldschoolity

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Thursday, 4 June 2015. Recent discussions started by Kiel and continued on G. Have got me thinking about why completely separating an adventure's text from its map, or printing the map devoid of details, still seems like a viable idea to publishers. Is it just tradition? Looking at the design of the first TSR modules, it seems clear. That one goal was to have the map contain as little information as possible, so that an accidental peek by players behind the screen would not reveal too much. Today, with e...

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Vargold: The Wolf-Time: Gallius the Gladiator [Barbarians of Lemuria, Actual Play]

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Barbaric Yawps on Comics, Role-Gaming, and Spec-Fic. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Gallius the Gladiator [Barbarians of Lemuria, Actual Play]. This isn't Lemuria, but it's still an arena, a six-legged beast,. And a guy doing the Harryhausen with a spear. A.k.a., "win.". Campaign at the FLGS. Fell through once again—seems like Pathfinder. Have cornered the market on D20 fantasy in Urbana. But I was prepared for the flop, pulling out Barbarians of Lemuria. S new Mythic Edition. Born Athlete, Sneaky, Strength Feat.

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Vargold: The Wolf-Time: [Barbarians of Lemuria] Terry Pratchett's Moist von Lipwig

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Barbaric Yawps on Comics, Role-Gaming, and Spec-Fic. Monday, March 16, 2015. Barbarians of Lemuria] Terry Pratchett's Moist von Lipwig. The news of Terry Pratchett's death last Thursday. Hit me harder than I expected, probably since I had only recently finished teaching Going Postal. For the first time (and consequently binging on other Discworld books— Feet of Clay. So as a tribute to Pterry I'd like to revisit my first Vargold. Post on his work by writing up a Barbarians of Lemuria. Moist is almost Vet...

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Roles, Rules, and Rolls: Improving 52 Pages: Overkill and Monster Experience

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Wednesday, 13 May 2015. Improving 52 Pages: Overkill and Monster Experience. So if we are going to be handing out experience for monsters, and the 100 xp per hit die rule is generally good in my experience, there is one situation where it appears to fall down: overkill. Where a higher-level party gets an overly large amount of experience for an encounter with six giant rats that is trivially dealt with. AD&D, as I've mentioned before. My concession to this logic, within the 100 xp/HD system, was to have ...

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Tales of the Monkey King: Dawning Star Ten Years On

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Tales of the Monkey King. A blog for the game design oriented musings of Lee Hammock. By day I work in the video game industry, and by night I scribble down my other ideas here. Thursday, July 18, 2013. Dawning Star Ten Years On. So some background with those not familiar with Dawning Star, it originally was a d20 Future setting about a cold sleep evacuation ship from 23. Who can you trust out of all these aliens and their strange religions, philosophies, etc? July 21, 2013 at 4:52 PM. GenCon, Summer Beer.

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Vircades Project: June 2014

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Saturday, 28 June 2014. Archetypal Adventures: four netrunner adventures in Sektor:K. All pictures from Starcraft II. Is an eSports bar on the decaying fringe of a central European city, named after a location in the forgotten progenitor game of the eSports scene. Situated in a rusting Soviet-era industrial park, the Sektor is a metallic realm of varnished steel and fading Americana frequented by eSports fans flocking to live broadcasts of Korean, French and Argentine professional matches. . Poster Malek...

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The Watch House: #RPGaDay 12: Favourite RPG Illustration

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RPGs and related matters, by Craig Oxbrow. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. RPGaDay 12: Favourite RPG Illustration. 12: Favourite RPG Illustration. Illustration, not illustrator. Gonna have to take a couple here:. Getting me into RPGs:. The cover for City Of Thieves. For an actual RPG:. The cover for Vampire: The Masquerade. By Chris McDonough. A rose on marble. A cover that really stood out in 1991, and still does to this day. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bruce Baugh's Then I Read. Of Gods And Men.