Tag Archives: RPGs

Indy Spotlight: The Witch is Dead

December 15, 2016 · by · in Fantasy, Games, Gaming, RPG, Story, Tabletop Games, Uncategorized · 3 Comments

“The Witch is Dead” is a free one-page free RPG by Grant Howitt.  Designed to be played in a single session, “The Witch is Dead” gives its players control over one of the late witches familiars and a single goal: revenge.  You see, the witch was not the wicked kind.  She was wise and benevolent […]

Games Are Important: An Oddly Personal Entry

September 2, 2015 · by · in Games, Personal, RPGs · Leave a comment

Games are important. Not everyone understands this, and both games as a medium and gaming as a hobby come under criticism quite frequently for many reasons.  When I was a kid videogames were considered either mind-numbing or too violent and tabletop games were the work of Satan.  What critics love to overlook is that games […]

Turning the Gears: Non-magical Healing in Pathfinder

July 23, 2015 · by · in Pathfinder RPG, RPGs, Tabletop Games · 1 Comment

In many d20 systems, including 3.x D&D and the Pathfinder RPG, healing is almost entirely the realm of the magically gifted. Sure, there’s the Heal skill, but that can only heal a creature of 1 hit point per hit die of the target once per day, so you still need a holy person around if […]

A Look at Adventurers in the World

July 22, 2015 · by · in Gaming, RPGs, World Building · Leave a comment

So I haven’t dusted off my world-building tools in a while, and I’d honestly like to see if I’m still up to snuff on it.  Last time I did an article on world-building I talked about the different types of people that exist in an adventuring world and how common each of them are (If […]

Saving the Game from Party Imbalance

July 8, 2015 · by · in Advice, Humor, RPGs · Leave a comment

We have all faced this beast before.  The heroes line up to go on their adventure and everyone is proud of the hero that they’ve built.  Bill has built a character with a lot of cool tricks, Mike is excited because he’s going to be an awesome ninja, and then there’s Frank.  Frank has built […]

RPG Inquiry: Legion

June 24, 2015 · by · in RPG Inquiry, Traditional Gaming · Leave a comment

Alright, I want to shift gears for a bit.  I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the video games that I played at MomoCON, and there’s still at least one more to talk about, but today I want to take the time to talk about one of the tabletop games that I demo’d as […]

Tabletop Tales: An Origin Story

May 20, 2015 · by · in Role Playing Games, Tabletop Tales, Traditional Gaming · Leave a comment

I often talk and act like an expert on this whole gaming thing.  I’ve got some pretty strong opinions and I believe that on the whole I’ve earned the right to have them and defend them with the full force of my intellect and sarcasm.  With that said, I think it’s important to take some […]

Bad Habits in Gaming: Assuming the Players Were Stupid

May 12, 2015 · by · in Bad Habits, RPGs, Traditional Gaming · Leave a comment

This is a relatively short article, but one that touches kind of close to my heart for a couple of reasons.  I think the first point I should make is that I’m not saying to assume that you’re players ARE stupid.  Players are occasionally actively pretty dumb, but the important word is “actively.”   GMs […]

Superheroes in Roleplaying

May 5, 2015 · by · in Licensed Games, RPGs, Traditional Gaming · 1 Comment

With the new “Avengers” movie in theaters, I thought it would be cool to talk about how superheroes translate into tabletop RPGs.  Now, there’s actually a pretty long list of pen and paper RPGs that are intended to run superhero themed games: Wild Talents, Godlike, Mutants and Masterminds, Silver Age Sentinels, and a few licensed […]

What I Learned My First Time DMing: A Guest Article by Ran

April 17, 2015 · by · in Gaming, Pathfinder, Ran, Role Playing, RPGs, Traditional Gaming · 1 Comment

DMing a game can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience. My first campaign had its ups and downs, but I learned a lot from it. I asked Trevor a while back if I could write a guest post on his blog about this experience, and he was all for it. So, here we go! First, […]

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