Apr 05
Animal Upon Animal For this month I am reviewing Animal Upon Animal, designed by Klaus Miltenberger and published by HABA. The game is in intended for 2-4 players and is recommended age is 4 and up. Each game lasts about 15 minutes. This was a recommendation from my twitter feed (@therpgacademy) when I had …
Mar 29
Hello students. This week, faculty member Andrew Young (@ThatOneGM) and I continue a series that should prove exciting and useful to you all. Enjoy! Movie Review Power Rangers was not a good movie, but it was a fantastic episode of the the Power Rangers TV show. It was jam-packed with love for the source material, and …
Mar 29
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 48:50 — 44.7MB) Hello and welcome to Show & Tell # 41: Arcanis Campaign Setting for 5e Kickstarter. In this episode I speak with Henry, President and Lead Writer for Paradigm Concepts and Pedro AKA Stat Monkey Lead Rules Designer for their currently Kickstarter’ing Campaign Setting: Arcanis. …
Mar 22
Hello students. This week, faculty member Andrew Young (@ThatOneGM) and I continue a series that should prove exciting and useful to you all. Enjoy! We’ve covered hacking a rules-light system like Wushu, and we’ve covered hacking a rules-heavy system like D&D 5e. Today, we’re going to cover hacking systems that focus on building narrative, and we’ll …
Mar 15
Hello students. This week, faculty member Andrew Young (@ThatOneGM) and I continue a series that should prove exciting and useful to you all. Enjoy! Last week we talked about how to use Wushu (a rules-light, genre-agnostic mechanical system) to play a Power Rangers style game. This week, we are going to talk about how to hack …
Mar 08
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 week, we discuss one of our favorite games here at the Academy, Wushu. Wushu is a rules-light role-playing game—designed to tell high-flying martial arts stories—that is incredibly easy to adapt …
Mar 01
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 23
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:20:29 — 55.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Podcast (httptherpgacademy-comfeedlive): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:20:29 — 55.3MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS Hello and welcome to our 3rd DM’ing 101 show. This is the audio only from our Youtube Series: DM’ing 101. This episode …
Feb 22
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 20
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:20 — 58.0MB)
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:20 — 58.0MB) Podcast (httptherpgacademy-comfeedlive): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:20 — 58.0MB)Subscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS Hello and welcome to the Trial of Wearing the Cape the new Role playing game currently on Kickstarter. It’s a Powered by FATE RPG based on the …
