Aug 24
Weekly Tip/Trick for August 24, 2012: Introduction When I first started running games, no one really gave me any useful tips or general rules of thumb to go by. All I had were the books and my own creativity. Although the books help, they can also create headaches and overwhelm those new to running games …
Aug 23
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:41 — 53.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSWell here we are at our new home. The first 9 or 10 minutes is Michael discussing what happened with the old website and why we decided to move. The first topic begins after that. We also have …
Aug 18
character.template Instructions: This character template is a series of questions that forces you to think about and ultimately make choices about your character outside of their role as an adventurer. In the questions “YOU” refers to the PC, not the player. This information can and should be used by your Game Master to develop hooks …
Aug 15
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:10 — 52.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSDungeon Talk: Episode 3 – An Editing Adventure Happy to bring to you episode 3! We had a lot of fun recording this one, probably too much since we finished with about an hour and a half of …
Aug 15
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:58 — 46.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Dungeon Talk: Episode 2 – The Saga Continues We changed the intro a little this time, the old intro was too long before we started talking. Table Topic # 1 – Update on Evan’s game 00:24 – …
Aug 15
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:04 — 47.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSSDungeon Talk: Episode 1 – The Beginning Well this is the first true episode of Dungeon Talk. We call it # 2 in the beginning, but that’s because we had an Episode 0 for a while. We chose …
Aug 14
Morpheus: Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. You would create the Matrix by having each of your Players roll a stat in turn using whatever method you would normally use. You would record them in order going left to right (row 1). Once you …
Aug 14
The Matrix One of the topics Evan and I plan on covering in an upcoming Dungeon Talk Episode is starting a new game. We believe that our audience will mostly be made up of newer Players and newer DM’s, so we wanted to give some thoughts on getting started. This article will cover an …
Aug 14
If you’ve been listening to the podcasts or reading any of my web journal entries then you may already know that I’ve been playing D&D and RPG’s since I was 12 or so. That’s right at 25 years (last week was by Birthday) of gaming. What you may not know yet is that within the …
Aug 14
Hero Points: Let’s be clear, these are almost identical to Action points from 3.5 Eberron. I’ve said in other posts and on the podcasts that the Eberron setting is my favorite. And it’s not even close. I LOVE that setting. Everything about it just feels right to me, including the Action Point mechanic it introduced. …
