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Fast as Lightning – The Flash Campaign

Blake Ryan — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 06:46:55 +0000

You’ve seen the series, now let’s talk about how to make a RPG campaign based on The Flash! There are a few elements you will need to make decisions on. These elements will help you get things started and be an ongoing guide once things are rolling. Echoes of the past Each hero should describe a good and bad event from their past. One of these events will be created or influenced by a time traveller. The other event […]

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Hair and Howls – Lycanthrope Player Characters

Blake Ryan — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 07:35:33 +0000

There are many ways you can use Lycanthropes, shape shifters influenced by the moon(s) in your games as Player characters. Here are some questions to run through to help you define Lycanthropes in your games. See Part 1 – Lycanthropes as NPC’s Lycanthropes can be player characters if the hybrid or animal form has a animalistic-human nature, but not if they are a berserk killing machine. The best Lycanthrope stories are where the characters have double lives. They either try […]

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Fur and Fangs – Lycanthrope NPC’s

Blake Ryan — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:54:24 +0000

This article will give you some ideas on how make interesting Lycanthrope NPC’s in your games. What is a Lycanthrope for the context of RPG’s? Lycanthropes are humans (and other species) who can change into animals and/or hybrid forms, and those changes are influenced by the moon(s) in your settings. Which creatures do you allow to suffer from Lycanthropy? All creatures? just humanoid mammal creatures (Goblins & Rodians yes, Lizardfolk & Droids no), or Humans only? Determining this will […]

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Ideas from our Solar System

Blake Ryan — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 07:43:06 +0000

Many fictional worlds duplicate earth in many ways, and gamers use earth as a template when making their own homebrew planets. But a variety of concepts & ideas can be borrowed and modified from the other planets in our solar system. If you don’t want to modify your own world too much, you could have the PCs visit an interesting moon or demi plane for a quest series. See Part 2 – More Ideas from our Solar System Mercury Fact […]

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Want volcano with it?

Blake Ryan — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:19:42 +0000

Volcanoes are part of the natural world, but rarely used in games. Using a volcano in your game should involve an ongoing series of events that lead up to the volcano bursting and changing the area around it. The volcano stages can be spread over weeks or days, this gives time to build tension, do side quests or the main volcano related quests. Remember in middle ages fantasy, people know nothing about molten core of the planet or tectonic plates. […]

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Open Legend RPG

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:00:33 +0000

A couple of months ago, a reader reached out to be to say that he had created a new tabletop game, and he hoped I would consider an article on it. We had a good conversation about it, and I agreed. History of the Classes has involved a lot of design critique, which is related to but (in my head if nowhere else) different from a review. Seventh Sphere Publishing plans to crowdfund through Kickstarter later this year, running from 18 […]

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