Caleb G
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Mar 01
Hacking and Reskinning Part 2 by TheCalebG and ThatOneGM
Hello students. This week, faculty member Andrew Young (@ThatOneGM) and I continue a series that should prove exciting and useful to you all. Enjoy! This series of articles is all about reskinning and hacking established game systems, and they will culminate with the development of a new mechanical system. The genre that we will be focusing …
Feb 22
Hacking and Reskinning by TheCalebG and ThatOneGM
Hello students. This week, faculty member Andrew Young (@ThatOneGM) and I start a series that should prove exciting and useful to you all. Enjoy! Unlike most board games, role-playing games thrive on the creative input of their players. Not only do players take actions and make decisions as their characters, but they also define the …
Feb 16
The Campaigns : Wrought Iron Episode 19 : Couches and Rubes
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:29 — 45.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Hello and welcome to The Campaigns, the Actual Play podcasts from The Rpg Academy. This is episode 19 of our newest DnD 5E actual play podcast. Wrought Iron In this episode, the party arrives at Stormbreaker Port. Arhamie Mot …
Feb 15
Review : Fuhgeddaboudit and Badabing Badaboom
What do the phrases Fuhgeddaboudit and Badabing Badaboom bring to mind? Beyond giving my spell check a heart attack, they remind me of classic, old-school, New York mafia tropes. I immediately picture feuding families, deals made over a spaghetti dinner, and crazy shenanigans that devolve into violence. And thanks to the team at Just Insert …
Feb 01
Review : The Book of the Tarrasque
Effectively using a massive, world-ending monster in a typical tabletop game can be challenging. And the Tarrasque, the granddaddy of them all, ramps that challenge up to 11. Luckily, John Arcadian and Encoded Designs has come to the rescue with a 5E supplement, The Book of the Tarrasque. Overview This supplement is dedicated to …
Jan 25
Encounter Design by ThatOneGM
Hello students. This week, new faculty member Andrew Young (@ThatOneGM aka that guy with the voices on Lawful and Orderly) brings us an article about encounter design. Enjoy. Encounter design is perhaps one of the most important aspects of being a game master, whether you prepare ahead of time or design on the fly. …
Jan 24
The Campaigns : Wrought Iron Episode 18 : An Unexpected Intrusion
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:09:35 — 63.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Hello and welcome to The Campaigns, the Actual Play podcasts from The Rpg Academy. This is episode 18 of our newest DnD 5E actual play podcast. Wrought Iron In this episode, the party deals with the attack on …
Jan 11
A review of Volo’s Guide to Monsters
Hello students. Professor Crunch here with a review of the latest official Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition supplement book, Volo’s Guide to Monsters. We received a review copy of this book for this purpose and gave it away as a prize at AcadeCon 2016. {Yeah dude! I spent most of AcadeCon leafing through this lovely book. …
Jan 10
The Campaigns : Wrought Iron Episode 17 : Settling In
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:05:00 — 59.5MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | www.therpgacademy.com/podcasts Hello and welcome to The Campaigns, the Actual Play podcasts from The Rpg Academy. This is episode 17 of our newest DnD 5E actual play podcast. Wrought Iron In this episode, the party adjust to life away from the …
Nov 10
The Trial of Open Legend RPG Part 4
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:01 — 39.4MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS | www.therpgacademy.com/podcasts Hello and welcome to The Trials; our new system play test Actual Play podcasts from The Rpg Academy. These games are one-shots of us playing a new system and giving it a trial run. This is the Trial …
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