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…

Colorful Language & Roleplaying

After reading probably too much of Richard K. Morgan, I’ve the rather strong urge to use more colorful words in our roleplaying games. I have to admit, I have started rather shy and slowly last session. As you might already know if you’re familiar with a few of my older…

Pathfinder Beta – Quick (and belated) update

Just a short note from my side, when I returned from my vacation – it was a pleasure to find on the paizo RSS feed the release note of Pathfinder Beta – as you might have noticed already I’m quite fond of the system and recommend it in case you’re…

Temptations of Evil – Part Two: Evil in Group(s)

Evil in a Group Probably one of the strongest and (in my humble opinion) most tempting designs for a character not only you will remember is an evil one. I’ve played a few of them, (since my personal hero-playing behaviour is predominant), but always enjoyed them. The basic for a…

The Temptations of Evil Part One: Seven Sins

Inspiration is everything. And rpgbloggers.com as blog-network is a great resource for inspiration it seems. With the feed online only a few hours, the mere stumbling through it – … – ah you better see it yourself. Over at Gnome-Stew, Walt posted an interesting question in his latest posting –…

Quick Gaming Update

After a nice Shadowrun Session this weekend was not very gaming heavy for me, luckily there were a few updates on other sites. E from Geeksdreamgirl has put up a nice interview with Phil the ChattyDM over here… Looks like all the guys from over-the-great-sea are caught by the GenCon…

Shadowrun Cyberpunk Imaginations

Another step to one side from d20 systems (it is getting a bit repeating – the 3e vs. 4e discussions everywhere) so I can take a timeout to give a short overview on the upcoming afternoon today. Thomas is once again pushing us into the not-so-far future, where corporations rule…