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The Basics of the Game Rambles about folklore in your games

In tonight’s ramble I talk about using folk lore to make your adventures more interesting. I am including a link to a story I wrote. I also briefly talk about…

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January 21, 2018
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The Basics of the Game Late Night Ramble 113

  Tonight’s Ramble is about the games as tools for focusing your mind.

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October 11, 2014
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The Basics of the Game Late Night Ramble 34

  Tonight’s Ramble is about the moral drift found in adventurer pc’s.

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June 25, 2014
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     Broken States: a Cyberpunk Future

    July 6, 2022 / Comments Off on  Broken States: a Cyberpunk Future

    I am doing the RPG Writer’s Workshop again this month. This is an attempt to break my writer’s block, among other things. This time around I decided to write an adventure for a system other than D&D for a change. This time I am working on a cyberpunk genre adventure for Modern AGE by Green Ronin. It is a system I wish I had more time to play. As part of this adventure, I decided I needed at least a rough background. I am not writing this for an existing world, so I figured I should have some world information to put in the adventure. Just enough to have a…

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    Researching New Spells

    April 19, 2017

    Spell Books of Infamy

    January 7, 2017

    Other Than Gods

    May 11, 2019
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    4 Magic Bows

    November 4, 2021 / 1 Comment

    There is always a need for more magic weapons in D&D. Simply having a +1 just doesn’t feel that satisfying a lot of the time. I like items that are little more varied than simply doing more damage.

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    Researching New Spells

    April 19, 2017

    On a Wing

    February 4, 2021

    Actual Books

    February 18, 2017
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    Making Encounter Tables

    July 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Making Encounter Tables

    Making an Encounter table is an interesting exercise. In some ways it is a statement of the tone of your game. Do you have a half dozen silly encounters? Do you have 8 generic wilderness encounters with beasts? Do you have combat encounters? Role playing? Chilling atmospheric encounters? Each says something about the style of game you are running.   Whatever the case, you are generating a list of events you wouldn’t mind showing in your game. You are generating a list of things that fit enough that you don’t care which one shows up. Even having an enormous table says something.   But some folks don’t know where to start.  So…

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    Other Than Gods

    May 11, 2019

    Rules For Spell Books (Or how I learned to relax and hang out in libraries)

    January 20, 2017
    A collection of DC Super Villains

    4 Grand Thieves Guilds

    July 22, 2017
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    Paladin’s World

    June 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Paladin’s World

    I recently started playing a game called Sentinel Comics RPG run by my friend Jared Rascher.  It is a newer superhero system with an interesting structure to its combat, a deep amount of lore, and a somewhat randomized character creation which calls back to the feel of classic Marvel Superheroes RPG without being so random as to make the characters silly. The lore of the game is also based on the board game called Sentinels of the Multiverse. I made a character called Paladin, because his abilities were supernatural and began to resemble paladins from D&D. I created a lose history for the character, but I realized after playing him…

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    Weapons

    February 10, 2021

    Other Than Gods

    May 11, 2019
    Picture of the Blue Ridge Mountains

    Setting Project: Redefining Humanity for Ballad.

    January 16, 2020
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    Cyberpunk: The genre and the games.

    May 26, 2021 / Comments Off on Cyberpunk: The genre and the games.

    Cyberpunk 2077 has been the source of much conversation. It was long-awaited and there much hype preceding its release. The launch didn’t go…swimmingly. There were some well-published bugs, particularly in older consoles. Beyond that people complained about it not being “punk” enough because you can work for the police, or the problems of the social media managers being transphobic, or the fact that they made the developer do mandatory overtime as part of pre-launch crunch, or…. let’s just say it was a rocky start. I actually played the game via Stadia and had fewer technical problems as a result. Actually playing through the game, I got to appreciate the things…

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    Paladin’s World

    June 18, 2021

    The Myths of Monsters

    February 4, 2018
    Jacob Wrestling angle line drawing

    Removing Monks

    October 8, 2019
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    Something in the future wants you dead

    May 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Something in the future wants you dead

    I think the Terminator series would make a brilliant D&D adventure idea for a D&D Plot.

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    Oath of the Grave Paladins

    March 24, 2019
    Picture of the Blue Ridge Mountains

    Setting Project: The world of Ballad

    January 8, 2020
    Jacob Wrestling angle line drawing

    Removing Monks

    October 8, 2019
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    Weapons

    February 10, 2021 / Comments Off on Weapons

    Argath bent his hulking body over the bench. His thick fingers were bent to the work of shaping the small pins down into place. They were to hold the ruby in its mount. The dull red gem looked like a large drop of blood frozen in motion. It contrasted with the gold wirework on the pommel.

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    The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

    December 17, 2012

    Comic Book show weekly round up.

    March 11, 2016
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    The Climb

    February 5, 2021
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    Inspiration

    February 8, 2021 / Comments Off on Inspiration

    Had a hard time concentrating today. I decided to turn that into writing about a way I will sometimes try to fight writer's block and how weird it is. I managed to write something which feels like a victory.

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    More Scifi fifth edition, with more background

    January 1, 2017
    Lancer From Fate:Zero

    5 Magic Spears…you are on your own for the Magic Helmet

    May 26, 2017

    When Immortals Adventure

    April 17, 2018
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    The Oath

    February 6, 2021 / Comments Off on The Oath

    This one was odd because I feel like I want to write more on it but I am not sure. I liked the notion of figuring out what to swear on.

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    Setting Project: The world of Ballad

    January 8, 2020

    An idea for a scifi game using 5th edition part 1

    November 25, 2016

    Criminal Variants: Con Artist

    January 8, 2018
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    The Climb

    February 5, 2021 / Comments Off on The Climb

    Day 5 of my Flash Fiction February entries. The suggested prompt was "Challenge" so I went with a story about a climb in my Space Gods setting I keep revisiting.

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    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 5: the Licensed and not so Licensed

    March 9, 2019
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    Burning Orcs

    March 26, 2018

    Warlock Patron: Animal Spirits

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