Epic Words

Roleplayingpro has a nice feature of a new page out there that might be helpful to many of you, Epic Words. What’s epic words? A gamer toolsite where you can upload campaigns, characters – have some blogs of your favorite character from his perspective and many other things. They’ve a…

epic preparation – p6 – NPCs

NPC definition and setup according to character backgrounds You hopefully still remember part four of this guide where we took a few (more or less) random characters and interweaved them to our player’s character-backgrounds. Now we will take a closer look onto a few of them and add some more to…

epic preparation – p5 – Specialities

Specialities and additional repertoire of resources Now we got a basic network of persons, a world and everything about your players set and ready… This part of the guide will help to get yourself prepared to keep your players busy and yourself not always on the edge of your imagination.…

epic preparation – must-reads

I’ve started doing a little research before and while I was putting my epic-adventure series online. Advice of fellow bloggers is something I appreciate very much and something you shouldn’t miss as well. Therefore a few of my favorite picks on adventure preparation to improve your planning and having a…

Quick Themechange

it’s been a while since i have given the blog some update on the style and it was really about time for a change, so far I’ve to admit I’m just testing a different contrast and therefore have installed a prepared theme, I’m pretty sure that the theme will change…

epic preparation – p4 – Interweaving

Background interweaving So you’ve got your world up and ready, now we get back to a bit character work, by now you should know your characters pretty well and probably they know each other well, too. It’s your part that you enhance your player’s work by adding additional contacts and…

epic preparation – p3 – History & Geo

Studying of History and Geography Opener Now you got a few characters, maybe all of this is part of your long-time campaign / ongoing adventure and you’re lifting it to epic levels, maybe you’ve just started this draft and want to start all a new. It does hardly matter – you…

epic preparation – p2 – Character Generation

Epic Character Generation So we’ve started to prepare our toolset for the adventure or campaign in part one. Now comes the part most of us will definitely enjoy and the part that will have the strongest influence on the adventure itself – the characters. Just a short reminder , if…

Problems of an Epic Campaign

To be honest, I have a draft waiting and could not get myself to finish it. The whole epic-campaign blog entry was meant to get my own thoughts sorted and there is this discussion I had with Tom on friday that made me realize that I have forgotten one of…

epic preparation – p1 – Starting

Introduction Ah, it’s been a while since I’ve had a good series, but I have the feeling this could be one, if I get the words right… As a matter of fact it happens that on irregular occasions my gaming group has a 2-4 days special event, coordinated by one…