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Survivalist Gaming – Water water Everywhere…

J.M. Perkins — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:42:35 +0000

…and not a drop to drink. In real life survival situations, securing an adequate supply of water is perhaps *the* most important consideration (sometimes eclipsed by the need for shelter depending on environment). You can live around a month or so without food (with some steep drop offs in functionality throughout that time), but water you get at most a week and that’s in a perfect climate without needing to exert yourself aka not the reality for real life people […]

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Survivalist Gaming: The Survival Skill

J.M. Perkins — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:00:29 +0000

Like most skills in modern role playing games, ‘survival’ is something of a catch-all (though not so much as that most rolled skill in Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons 5e – Perception). This is totally fair; too much granularity gets in the way of fun. Basically, the ‘survival’ skill (in conjunction with perhaps ‘knowledge nature’) is utilized for doing ‘outdoorsy’ stuff; tracking, avoiding the worst effects of inclement weather, and whatever. More often than not, someone should have it to track […]

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Survivalist Gaming: Fantasy Go-Bag

J.M. Perkins — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:00:19 +0000

*Note: While I won’t be system specific in this article, what I most commonly play is Pathfinder so you’ll find most of the suggestions drifting in that direction. If you have suggestions, tweaks, or alternate items for your particular flavor of Dungeons and Dragons, Savage Worlds, Torchbearer et al please mention them in the comments!* The Bug-out Bag (most commonly referred to as a BOB, also sometimes go-bag, and a 1000 other names) is a staple of survivalist preparation. The […]

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Survivalist Gaming: Dungeons as Fantasy Fallout Shelters

J.M. Perkins — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 14:05:02 +0000

There are as many kinds of dungeons as there are monsters: living dungeons, conquered dungeons, ruined places, and many more. But dungeons work best when they have a plausible reason for their existence. If it has living inhabitants, there needs to be a way for food to get in and out; and a reason for its inhabitants to be there in the first place. I want to discuss a underutilized kind of dungeon for your next fantasy game; a dungeon […]

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Survivalist Gaming: What is Survivalist Gaming?

J.M. Perkins — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 18:39:20 +0000

My name is John, I write as J.M. Perkins, and I spent a lot of my childhood preparing for the end of the world and how our family was going to survive it. (My parents were evangelical post-tribulation biblical literalists if that means anything to you.) I’m also a huge geek, fairly experienced gamer and game designer, and my survivalist background comes up a lot in the games I play and how I choose to play them. On Tribality, I’ll […]

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