Horror Is Not My Thing It used to be when I was younger. The thought of someone killing you in your nightmares terrified me. Being possessed by a demonic entity who could cause you to projectile vomit was as horrific as it was gross. The thought that a malevolent spirit was haunting my TV gave me...
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What’s In A Name Back in the 90’s when the mall may as well have been the internet, the teenage me couldn’t leave before perusing the bookcase of RPGs at Waldenbooks. Like K•B Toys or Babbage’s before it, you couldn’t just leave without seeing what’s new. It didn’t matter if I had any...
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Speed painting your RPG miniatures can be a great way to get them ready for the tabletop without spending hours on each one. In this article I’ll share three tips that will help you speed paint your miniatures in under 10 minutes! I’ve been a commission miniature painter for many...
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Hey, everybody! Let me tell you all about a fun game from Origins 2015. It’s called “A Tragedy in Five Acts,” made by Growling Door Games. If you are a fan of Shakespearean tragedy, or if you just like cooperative storytelling in your RPGs, this game could be a great fit for your...
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I recently had the pleasure of doing an interview of Marker Jones, head of United Sight Studios for the upcoming digital convention, AetherCon. Marker is the creative force behind the recently released Worlds of Rage RPG. He has worked as both a game designer and writer for the game which includes...
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Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you all are having a safe candy filled holiday. Tonight is a night that I enjoy sitting down to a table filled with friends and calling on Cthulhu or dusting off the zombie minis for a night of horror games. If you haven’t made your selection on what horror game...
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The GM’s gotten everyone around the table – characters rolled, feats selected, classes discussed so the party’s as cohesive as it’s going to get. The coffee’s re-filled in everyone’s cups. The GM spins a story, lays out the setting, the beginnings of a place and time that isn’t your living...
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This is a story from the World of Darkness Crossover Game I was in for a time. For your own sanity: DO NOT EVER RUN OR PLAY IN A WoD CROSSOVER GAME–an article about that will probably pop up some time in the future. My much-stressed Hunter, Daisy Maza (named after my two favorite fictional...
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I’m in the process of making a character for an ongoing game of Scion. It’s a play-by-post kind of game, and I was playing for a while as a different character, so I’m familiar with the setting as the Storytellers are writing it. I know the politics and the houserules and the homebrewed knacks....
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Stubborn. Overconfident. Obsessed. Cowardly. Clumsy. Argumentative. Curious. Unlucky. Forgetful. A while back, Caitlin posted a great article on ideas to help flesh a new character out. Most of the work is in how we connect with and then portray our characters, but plenty of roleplaying game...
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