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Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: Graveyards and Final Remains (Troll in the Corner) Oct 2012
What happens to the dead in your game? After they're raised as undead and destroyed by your PCs, of course.
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What happens to the dead in your game? After they're raised as undead and destroyed by your PCs, of course.
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Make Politics Interesting in Your Fictional World (World Building Academy) Oct 2012
Here's how to inject politics into your game world in ways that make sense and make good stories.
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Here's how to inject politics into your game world in ways that make sense and make good stories.
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ACKS - Domain Level Review (Carpathia) - Part 4 (The Lair Of Lubidius) Sep 2012
Take a look at this series of articles about building a domain from the ground up in ACKS. Given my interest in domain-level games, I had to pick up the rules.
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Take a look at this series of articles about building a domain from the ground up in ACKS. Given my interest in domain-level games, I had to pick up the rules.
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A Verbis Ad Verbera (A Word and a Blow) [New Game] (Sand & Steam) Sep 2012
Here's the kernel of a narrative-heavy RPG where you play countries instead of people. Great stuff.
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Here's the kernel of a narrative-heavy RPG where you play countries instead of people. Great stuff.
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Domain Game: What To Do? (Wombat's Gaming Den of Iniquity) Sep 2012
Explore domain actions for the Domain Game, including creating and destroying holdings, agitating for change, and producing or refining trade goods.
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Explore domain actions for the Domain Game, including creating and destroying holdings, agitating for change, and producing or refining trade goods.
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Cassini (xkcd) Sep 2012
What would happen if the earth's poles were shifted 90 degrees? Finding the answer and explaining the resulting biosphere changes involves some great food for thought for worlbuilding.
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What would happen if the earth's poles were shifted 90 degrees? Finding the answer and explaining the resulting biosphere changes involves some great food for thought for worlbuilding.
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The Domain Game - Main Page (Wombat's Gaming Den of Iniquity) Sep 2012
Here's the cover page for the series of articles on the Domain Game, a way to play the kingdoms in your RPG.
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Here's the cover page for the series of articles on the Domain Game, a way to play the kingdoms in your RPG.
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Of the productivity of peasants and the price of rations (The Dragon's Flagon) Aug 2012
This level of economic analysis can benefit almost any game. When a peasant soldier earns 1gp/month and food costs 5gp/week, something doesn't make sense on your price list.
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This level of economic analysis can benefit almost any game. When a peasant soldier earns 1gp/month and food costs 5gp/week, something doesn't make sense on your price list.
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Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: Traffic and Crowd Control (Troll in the Corner) Aug 2012
Ever thing about how crowds and traffic impact your game setting, especially in cities? Use these questions to flesh out crowd dynamics in your game.
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Ever thing about how crowds and traffic impact your game setting, especially in cities? Use these questions to flesh out crowd dynamics in your game.
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On Scaling Monsters (Wombat's Gaming Den of Iniquity) Aug 2012
Why should PCs have all the advancement fun? If you're willing to put in a little work, that Kobold Archmage could give your party a run for their money.
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Why should PCs have all the advancement fun? If you're willing to put in a little work, that Kobold Archmage could give your party a run for their money.
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Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: Country vs. City (Troll in the Corner) Aug 2012
Do your game's PCs come from the city or the country? There's no right answer, only great questions to help you flesh out your world.
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Do your game's PCs come from the city or the country? There's no right answer, only great questions to help you flesh out your world.
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Howling Tower: Imagine a World… (Kobold Quarterly) Jul 2012
Building a world can be a game for everyone at the table to enjoy before the role playing campaign starts.
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Building a world can be a game for everyone at the table to enjoy before the role playing campaign starts.
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Chitty Realm Worldbuilding Tool (Blue Boxer Rebellion) Jul 2012
This looks like a great system for worldbuilding and mapmaking. Arrange the chits on a blank piece of paper and a map grows like magic.
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This looks like a great system for worldbuilding and mapmaking. Arrange the chits on a blank piece of paper and a map grows like magic.
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The Places of Pyre: The Shaman’s District (Dr. Worldcrafter) Jul 2012
Come explore this holy and magical quarter in the abandoned city of Pyre.
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Come explore this holy and magical quarter in the abandoned city of Pyre.
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Getting Cultured (Occult Moon) Jul 2012
Different cultures in your game should have different flavors and advantages for PCs from that culture. Here's a system to help you organize your game's cultures.
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Different cultures in your game should have different flavors and advantages for PCs from that culture. Here's a system to help you organize your game's cultures.
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Working with magic systems (Parenthesis Press) Jul 2012
Thinking about systems of magic in relation to the action economy and magic's place in the game world.
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Thinking about systems of magic in relation to the action economy and magic's place in the game world.
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Free Pantheon of Gods - Circa 1986 (Tenkar's Tavern) Jul 2012
I enjoy uncovering notes and pieces from past campaigns like this. Here's a list of homebrew gods from the mid-'80s.
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I enjoy uncovering notes and pieces from past campaigns like this. Here's a list of homebrew gods from the mid-'80s.
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Reality Makes the Best Fantasy: PANTS (Troll in the Corner) Jul 2012
On the societal pros and cons of pants and trousers, and how they can fit into your game.
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On the societal pros and cons of pants and trousers, and how they can fit into your game.
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The Prestige Class in Old-School D&D (A Wizard's Kiss) Jul 2012
Prestige Classes are simply campaign-specific ability add-on packages for your character which absolutely make sense in OSR games.
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Prestige Classes are simply campaign-specific ability add-on packages for your character which absolutely make sense in OSR games.
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Who Guards the Queen? (Sarah Darkmagic) Jul 2012
Using female bodyguards provides the advantage of surprise in cultures that don't think of women as fighters.
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Using female bodyguards provides the advantage of surprise in cultures that don't think of women as fighters.
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