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August 08 2010
Dungeonslayers
Jed & I played half of a sample dungeon tonight. (Dungeonslayers is a new free RPG with a decidedly old-school bent. Ten pages of rules, then you're off to kill monsters and take their loot.)
Jed & I played half of a sample dungeon tonight. (Dungeonslayers is a new free RPG with a decidedly old-school bent. Ten pages of rules, then you're off to kill monsters and take their loot.)
June 12 2010
Random Dungeon Generator
a different randomized dungeon map on every page load. looks like the maps i drew for D&D back in high school.May 24 2010
The Random Pulp Science Fiction Title Generator from Cornelius Zappencackler's DERANGE-O-LAB
Makes up random pulp sci-fi titles. "Vanquished by the Sacred Lizard", "The Coming of the Lightning", "The Time Machine of Tumithak's Moons", etc.
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April 28 2010
The Same Page Tool
"Functional [RPG] play depends on everyone playing the same game. Sadly, many people don’t even know or negotiate what that means, and a lot of game texts leave crucial things out."... I figured it might make sense to put together a tool for talking about “how we play what we’re playing". A lot of this is put together from playing in a lot of different games and seeing stuff go wrong and places where one or more folks showed up with different expectations."
No.
"There’s a common adage in the world of story games, introduced through the text of Vincent Baker’s Dogs in the Vineyard: Say yes or roll the dice. ..."I’m not sure how useful saying no is. But I’m pretty confident that learning how to hear no is one of the most useful things that a collaborator of any type, especially a story gamer, can do."
March 09 2010
What It Might Be Like to Live in Viriconium
Fantasy/SF author M. John Harrison: "The great modern fantasies were written out of religious, philosophical and psychological landscapes. They were sermons. They were metaphors. They were rhetoric. They were books, which means that the one thing they actually weren’t was countries with people in them. The commercial fantasy that has replaced them is often based on a mistaken attempt to literalise someone else’s metaphor, or realise someone else’s rhetorical imagery. For instance, the moment you begin to ask (or rather to answer) questions like, “Yes, but what did Sauron look like?”; or, “Just how might an Orc regiment organise itself?”; the moment you concern yourself with the economic geography of pseudo-feudal societies, with the real way to use swords, with the politics of courts, you have diluted the poetic power of Tolkien’s images."February 22 2010
Read an RPG Book in Public Week
"Read An RPG Book in Public Week is an event that happens three times a year, during the weeks surrounding March 4th, July 27th, and October 1st (starting on the Sunday on or before, and ending on the Saturday on or after). During these weeks, roleplaying enthusiasts are encouraged to take their favorite RPG rulebooks out with them and read them in public - on the bus, in the coffee shop, at lunch, at the park, or anywhere."January 20 2010
Help Haiti, Get $1400 of RPG PDFs free
DriveThruRPG has a deal where you donate $20, all of which goes to Doctors Without Borders for Haiti relief, and get 179 books/supplements in PDF form. I'm sure most of it is shovelware, but there are enough gems to make it well worth while if you're into roleplaying at all. (I'm linking to this blog post rather than RPGNow directly, because this post has the complete list of titles, whereas RPGNow's list craps out midway through the "C"s.)January 07 2010
A system for playing D&D with my kid [NewbieDM]
"If you are anything like me, your little kids are curious about D&D. I know that when game time comes at my house, my 4 year old daughter loves hanging around the table seeing what we’re doing. She’s full of questions about the minis, maps, and books. It had gotten to the point that she’d been asking me to play with her, so I played fake D&D with the minis and tiles, but with no dice. After a few times of doing that, she wizened up and asked me about the dice. I figured it was time, so I went ahead an invented a quick rpg for us to play together. "I’m not making claims about being a designer or anything, this was a rough system I quickly put together in order to give her a minimalist rpg experience. Keep in mind, it is very, very simple. In play testing it I found that it would work better with a kid who knows how to add and subtract, although it is certainly not a necessity for them to enjoy it. "January 06 2010
Patricia C. Wrede's Worldbuilder Questions
A large set of questions to ask yourself when designing a world, country or culture for fiction or a game. Originally posted by the fantasy author Patricia Wrede to FIDOnet in the dark ages of the Net.December 04 2009
In a Wicked Age: four oracles
Random story idea generator from Vincent Baker's game "In A Wicked Age". An example: "KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door. 1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body. QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner. 3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute."November 07 2009
RollPlay Dice Library
"a multi-platform C Application Programming Interface which performs dice rolling services. RollPlay provides: * Parsing of complex role-playing style dice descriptions * Open-ended rolls * Collective dice tests, for games like Shadowrun, Earthdawn, the Storyteller system, et. al. * Multiple algorithms for random number generation * Roll statistic tracking * Rolls against set target numbers"October 19 2009
Slime Story: Playtest Version 2 « Yaruki Zero Games
A roleplaying game about a parallel America where "one-way magical portals provide a constant stream of cute monsters, and many teenagers go out and hunt those monsters. They collect parts from the monsters, and trade those in at the Monster Mart at the mall. They get exercise, spending money, and time with friends. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from acting like teenagers."October 16 2009
On Her Majesty's Arcane Service
An RPG sourcebook. "Her Majesty Elizabeth, Queen of England, secretly established in 1560, the second year of her reign, the Arcane Service. The Service is composed of people, usually but not solely of magical bent, who have sworn to protect the realm from magical assault. The head of this service is Dr. John Dee, the Queen's Astrologer, and noted Savant. He finds agents for his Service by listening to the advice of the angels, who speak to him from a peculiar mirror he has installed in his rooms, which he keeps covered in cloth when not consulting it. ...The player characters are assumed to be agents of Doctor Dee. They are people passionately devoted to the welfare of England, and of the Queen, and unafraid of dealing with magical creatures and powerful workers of magic."October 04 2009
Lexicon: an RPG
"Here's a little roleplaying game that I've been toying with. I call it the Lexicon RPG, in honor of its inspiration, Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars. "The basic idea is that each player takes on the role of a scholar, from before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be). You are cranky, opinionated, prejudiced and eccentric. You are also collaborating with a number of your peers -- the other players -- on the construction of an encyclopedia describing some historical period (possibly of a fantastic world). "The game is played in 26 turns, one for each letter of the alphabet..."September 29 2009
Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple
"Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple is a game in which you tell stories about young travelers flying to distant worlds. They have spent their childhood living in a mysterious temple in the center of the skies, but now they’re on a Pilgrimage, coming of age in a universe full of wonders and perils. "Pilgrims are the only people who can fly unaided. Everyone else rides airships powered by sails or is tugged along by flying animals. "The universe of Do has no “outer space” as we know it. Instead of dark, deadly vacuum between the worlds, there are endless skies full of billowing clouds and filled with all sorts of creatures and cultures. It has planets, but they’re much smaller than ours."September 17 2009
Microlite20, purest essence
A "trimmed-down, subminiature" version of D20, aka D&D 3.x, in the form of a very handsome-looking 17-page PDF. Definitely falls in the rules-lite category, but mostly compatible with D20-based scenarios and such.September 14 2009
Latin Gibberish Generator [Chaotic Shiny]
Makes up sentences of fake Latin, such as "exhorta id passistis egressas, sibi aeqerunt estis laborit ego victae quod proma apud fructissimus, stalagmo sic rapacum coner."Religion Generator [Chaotic Shiny]
Generates a random religion by picking dozens of attributes from lists. Handy if you want to run an RPG, write a fantasy novel or start a new cult.August 16 2009
Mythmere Games: Swords And Wizardry
A rewritten clone of the original 1974 Dungeons & Dragons rules; very lightweight compared to today's D&D. Free PDF download or $10 book. Just won an ENnie award at GenCon.
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