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Years ago, a friend online told me of the guidelines she was given in designing her character for a supers campaign. Have a way to get to the fight. Have a way to be useful in the fight. Have a way to survive the fight. It occurs to me that …
This topic was started in rec.games.frp.dnd on May 24, 2007. The original thread can be read at http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.frp.dnd/browse_thread/thread/6662e4aded1800d3/6c3ab66bcdcb182e http://www.gameskb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/games-dnd/9960/kjd-gaz-celtic-type-setting Here are some initial thoughts on a Celtic-type region in my campaign. I haven’t worked out much by way of names and the like yet; here I’m sketching out what game …
Part of the reason I created this site was to build a repository of posts I’ve made to rec.games.frp.dnd. It didn’t take long before this was my primary publishing location, and I just published links in RGFD. I’m entirely okay with that, but my original goal kind of fell to …
Ben Robbins had what looks like a very good sandbox campaign, and a remarkable way of managing PCs available at any given time. This post describes how I think I’ll go about giving it a try, because it sounds like it’ll work very well for me, given the difficulties I’ve had in maintaining a steady group of players online… and the design requirements for any particular session are relatively small compared to my normal campaign design mechanisms. I’m looking for players and possibly co-GMs.
I recently posted a description in a comment to a blog post of how I handle experience and level gains that I thought I should include on my own site. In considering how to write it, I realized it might be worth exploring a few other models of character development …
GreyKnight is starting a campaign set in the world implied by Nethack, using Pathfinder RPG as his base rule set. Among other things, this requires him to build some new character classes. He has taken a run at the Valkyrie class and asked for some comments and suggestions. This post …
In the last couple of months I have seen comments linking anime and role playing games. It is not a bad link, really, given the overlap between ‘watchers of anime’ and ‘players of RPGs’ and the influence anime and RPGs have on each other. However, it is incomplete because ‘anime’ …
So far, these articles have focused on definitions and theory. This article shows how they can used together to actually craft something. Summary of Steps Develop the setting, so the campaigns have a place to happen. Develop campaigns, so the player characters have long-term goals and to provide a general …
The number three seems to have a strong cognitive effect. Hearing something three times can help someone remember it, we usually need at least three observations to predict a pattern, and we seem to be able to easily remember about three things about a subject. Listing sets of three is …
Role Theme Horse-riding nomadic orcs (elites ride pegasi). Conflicts Homeland plains are encroached on by the Empire of the Sun. Blood feud with the Ssthar tribes (ancient enmity, and relatively recently the Ssthar managed to wipe out the Kreshtar pegasi – and the son of their leader, who was one …