A Lady, a Tramp, a Skyship and its Crew
Some weeks ago I’d mentioned I’d run One Seven Design’s one shot, Lady Blackbird: Adventures in the Wild Blue Yonder. I forget where I initially heard about it, but I was immediately struck by the quality of the publications, and moreso the price. Free! Thinking to indulge my players’ known love for steampunk, I sent [...]
Blog Crits: Exchange of Realities
Even more Writing, Role-playing, & Gamemastering Tips & Tricks Three out of Three Crits So I finally happened upon Exchange of Realities, a blog centered on the crossroads between writing and gaming. It’s much older than Triple Crit, and as you pore over the right-hand column, you’ll probably be wowed by the sheer amount of [...]
Rites, Rituals & RPG’s
As you may well have guessed from my inclusion of astrology, Tarot, and totemic/polytheistic home-brew material in my discussion of role-playing games, I’m a practicing pagan. Today is one of those days that’s kind of a big deal: it’s simultaneously Midsummer and the First Day of Summer (yeah, explain that one to me), also known [...]
You Only Live Twice: Espionage RPG’s and Gaps in the Genre
As I still struggle to return to Marrakesh with my players (as I talked about in The Selfish GM), I thought I’d run something a touch different. That is to say, a mix of Ocean’s 11, Casino Royale, Inception, and the Italian Job. Armed with a playlist of the soundtrack from those and a few [...]
Chekhov’s Gun, Raising the Stakes, and Due Cause
As I pore over my new Dungeon Master’s Book (pooh-pooh Essentials all you want–the DM side is simpler and contains all the errata necessary to combat the last few years’ power creep) and Dungeon Tiles for Athas, the City, and the Dungeon, I remember that I still need to prep for the meat of tomorrow’s [...]
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