Let’s kick off 2010 in style!
Today is the first day of the Design A Dungeon Room Contest. Create an interesting stand alone room in an Old School style dungeon. Your room could contain a creature encounter, a devious trick or trap, a mysterious NPC to interact with — anything you think would make your room an interesting addition to a classic subterranean dungeon. All entries are part of the same larger dungeon, so keep your entry specific to what adventurers find within your specific room. There’s no …
With other bloggers posting their thoughts on 2009, and their resolutions and predictions for 2010 a theme I see a lot of people mentioning is how hard they find it to get a regular gaming group together. I’ve seen people share various ideas for finding people to invite to join their games ranging from asking at their local gaming store, to putting up posters, to posting on gaming message boards. What I found worked very well in 2009 was using Facebook.
Despite it’s various shortcomings with privacy, or annoying invites …
As the year winds down, it’s time to look ahead to the next year and set some New Year’s Resolutions – gaming ones of course. Feedback, suggestions, want to help with any of it – leave a comment, or send email.
#1 Run a monthly game night
That’s 12 game nights (probably Saturdays) at my place here in Guelph, Ontario. In 2009 I hosted 6 game nights, so this means twice as much gaming (at least) in 2010. Having more regular gaming get togethers will help with some of the other resolutions on …
While working on material for my next D&D campaign I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about adding Weird Science, Horror, Sword & Planet and other “non-traditional” elements to the generic fantasy of Dungeons & Dragons. I’ve also been watching a lot of Westerns lately and with Deadlands Dice close at hand, I’ve been thinking of taking the “generic fantasy” more in that direction as well.
It wasn’t until I started looking at some pre-written modules and imagining them in a Dark Fantasy Wild West type setting instead of …
Systems for awarding experience points in RPGs are currently the hot topic for RPG bloggers, so I thought I’d lend my 2 cents to the discussion as well. While some others have advocated a strict adherence to the Gold = XP standard, or a shift to Exploration or Plot Points for XP models, I’m going to suggest something a bit different — Experience points based on a Character’s Alignment.
I’ve previously written about Alignment and Languages for D&D, and this suggestion is based on that system. All characters in …
