Roleplaying Games Rite Publishing has released Evocative City Sites: The Crossroads for the Pathfinder RPG. You can grab it from the Paizo store here. Jonathan Roberts, cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and The Breaking of Fostor Nagar, presents another Fantastic Map: “The Watchfire Keep”. Rite Publishing has set up a prelaunch website for its [...]
Throughout the column I’ve often suggested that DMs should encourage kids to create characters and monsters and help them flash out these creations into works of good grammar, good rules and good fun. This month I want to discuss this subject in depth and bring some examples of awesome characters, monsters and settings created by [...]
Alea Publishing Mark of Hubris: Allies Oracle of Orcas Wandering Magister Blackbyrne Publishing Encounter at Fairvale Within Death’s Gaze Emerald Press Combat Advantage #1: Power Knowledge Combat Advantage #2: Bleeding Combat Advantage #3: Centry Combat Advantage #4: Heroic Talents Combat Advantage #5: Paragon Talents Combat Advantage #6: Reputation Feats Combat Advantage #7: Sidekicks Combat Advantage [...]
All games outside of wargames and roleplaying games have limited replayability value. One of the main factors determining replayability value is the strategic depth of a game. A deep game is one which players can play for a long time while still discovering new strategic insights. Some games are deeper than others: chess is deeper [...]
A Few (More) Words on the Author… It seems there has been some confusion among my reader regarding what is it exactly that I do. Others have asked me for tips on how to organize D&D after-school groups in their area. To both groups, here is a brief reply: I’m working in a small company [...]
The first part of this article is fun – gold, XP, magic items, super powers, epic mounts and lovable pets. The second half is less fun – fines, punishment and exile. Two sides of the same coin, your stick and carrot. Let’s begin with the carrot and hope we’ll never get to the stick. Rewards [...]
From the publisher Agents of S.W.I.N.G. is a FATE-powered Spy-Fi adventure game in which you take on the part of secret agents, working throughout the world in the 1960s and 70s to avert catastrophe, punish evildoers and stop the two superpowers from annihilating each other. A slimmed down and sped up version of FATE, derived [...]
The era of the Gods was closing. Their once eternal rule had come to an end. The heavens trembled as the armies of Falis, God of Light, clashed with those of Falaris, God of Darkness. Their perpetual battle ensued. The earth wept. The seas boiled. In the end, each side had but one survivor: Marfa, [...]
This Just In… From Gen Con, the unique live-from-the-con podcast, returns for the fourth consecutive year featuring new hosts. The 2011 season of This Just In… From Gen Con will be hosted by the affable Daniel M. Perez – you may know him as Highmoon (The Gamer Traveler Blogcast) and Rich Rogers – who I [...]
Teaching Young Gamers To start again with the briefest of introductions. My name is Uri, and I go from school to school, and from community center to community center, to play Dungeons & Dragons with kids. On top of the usual challenges that arise from working with kids—one also constantly gets burned by bumping into rules and [...]
