2012 – Page 21 – In My Campaign

Boom! Head Shot!

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A few months ago I posted about a different model for hit points and healing, then followed up a few weeks ago with a post considering some of the implications of making those changes. One of the lingering thoughts I’ve had is that it comes close to modeling desired behavior …

Fantastic Locations: January 12, 2012 Roundup

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Here is this week’s roundup for the RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Locations.

Erik at Wampus Country tells us of the Vulture-Men of Buzzard Gulch (because really, where else would you expect to find them?). On the face of it this is a place made special by those who live here, but there is a deeper secret that is not spoken of. He also tells us of the Sobbing-Stone of the Disappointed, a sad place inspired by a comment from his son on his parents exhibiting some romance. The comment was funny (I have kids too and have heard similar), and while the place Erik describes here isn’t funny, it is fantastic.

Berin Kinsman has his first post for this carnival, describing how to use abandoned and ruined places in world building.

Ravyn of Exchange of Realities comes in with yet another post, Impractical Applications (In the… Er, Corpus… of the Beast). I thought I had a place of necromantic fun in the Ghost Hills, but I may have been outplayed for weird here. I must admit that I love the description, “Some kind of demented Magic School Bus trip” (why yes, I do have kids, why do you ask?).

John at Sycarion Diversions tells a brief story about The World Beside, a fantastic location you visit without necessarily going elsewhere… but you can still get lost forever.

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Rule of Cool’s Legend, and Child’s Play

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This was brought to my attention via google+.

Rule of Cool‘s Legend core rulebook is now available for download. I expect it’ll go up on RPGNow, DriveThruRPG, or their own store soon.

However, until January 14 it is available from their site with a ‘pay-what-you-want’ basis… to Child’s Play.

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Fantastic Location: TV Tropes

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As I mentioned in this week’s Links of the Week post, Jason of The Action Point suggested using TV Tropes to describe the important thematic elements of your campaign, the nature of situations and events players can expect to encounter, and so on.

This seems a good idea, so I figured I’d take a quick look to see if anything jumped out at me…

Somehow, a ‘quick look’ for ‘a few minutes’ means outside my window things went from “o’dark thirty” to “lunch time”. It appears I found a temporal anomaly, without even leaving my desk!

How cool is that? Fairly uncommon in a site (but not unique), easily accessed (many people have, and returned), but physical and biological laws seem to be suspended. Fantastic!

Fantastic Location: Rime Tower, Part 1 – Inspiration

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For the last week or so I have been talking about fantastic locations. I have described one, I have discussed even more the resources I use when devising them. I thought it time to describe another one, and I realized that I didn’t feel like going back to revise an …

Link of Fame: The Muppets’ Secret Elevator Tapes – Battle Hymn of the Elevator

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This video was just forwarded to me by a friend online and it really cheered a rough day.

Being muppets this was obviously staged rather than spontaneous, but it’s still silly enough to make me grin.

Thanks Chuck! It really helped today.

Fantastic Locations: On Holy Ground

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Temples are one of the more common places of power in my campaign. In a world where gods exist, places of interest to them often take on characteristics appropriate or pleasing to the gods. The gods were interrupted while building the prime plane, which has had some consequences. There are …

D&D 5e Announced

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I haven’t yet checked RPGBA today, but even without watching the reaction at google+ I’m pretty sure there is a lot of reaction to Wizard’s announcement that they are developing D&D 5e (which I might have thought they’d have somewhere easy to find on their site, but, well, it is …

Links of the Week: January 9, 2012

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I think I might call this the Shatterworld Edition. It seems Niccodaemus has most of the links this week.

RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Locations

I’m reading all the carnival posts I find — all I’ve read so far look really good, thanks for taking part! — and have decided to round them up separately in a weekly post on Thursdays. Even though it excites me to see them, I’ll leave them out of my normal Links of the Week posts.

I have to say that I’m pretty pleased with the turnout so far.

Kickstarter Projects

I haven’t become aware of any really exciting (to me) projects this week. At least, that I can afford; the 3d printer project looks really cool but I can’t justify the expense.

Monster Stand-Ins (Plastic Card Miniatures)

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inkwellideas/monster-stand-ins-plastic-card-miniatures)

I’m still hawking this one. It’s a little over a third of the way funded and there’s more than a month left, but I’d really like to see it succeed.

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea

(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1806106772/astonishing-swordsmen-and-sorcerers-of-hyperborea)

This one is funded and I just backed it myself. It’s cool enough I thought I’d remind people of it before the project closes January 15 since there is a stretch goal. Tim makes a more impressive case for giving Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers your cash at I’d Rather By Killing Monsters….

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Fantastic Locations: Resources for the Lands of Chaos

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In the last couple of days I’ve reviewed some books that have information that looks useful for developing fantastic locations. Of those there are four that I look to most often. Revised System Reference Document The only thing I’ve found in the RSRD regarding chaos lands has to do with …