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More Treasures of Galadria

Scott — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:00:22 +0000

I’ve just returned from an extended trip to London, which provided plenty of inspiration for posts. While I’m getting some of them in order, though, I figured I should post an update, since it’s been quite a while. Here, then, are some more magic items from my long-running Galadria campaigns. These span the various editions; [...]

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More Treasures of Galadria

4E from One Year In

Scott — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:55:39 +0000

Fourth edition Dungeons & Dragons is a little over a year old now, and I’ve been playing or running it for almost exactly a year today. On the whole, I’m finding it a pretty robust system. It’s not my favorite system, or even my favorite D&D (that would be Cyclopedia D&D), but it’s become my [...]

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4E from One Year In

5 Games I Want to Play

Scott — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:36:59 +0000

I’ve never played any of these, but I wish I could: Primetime Adventures. I’ve got the rules and it looks like an elegant and rules-light universal system. Universal because of its conceit: the players play the star characters in a (nonexistent) television series. Gritty crime drama, soap opera, shoujo high-school romantic comedy, post-apocalyptic cooking show, [...]

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5 Games I Want to Play

Ten Monsters I Love (But Rarely Use)

Scott — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:08:08 +0000

I thought I’d chip in on the latest subject to be making its way around the RPG blogs. Instead of just my favorite ten monsters, which would include common reliables like kobolds, dragons, and vampires, though, I thought I’d list the ones that are favorites of mine but that I rarely find myself using. They [...]

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The Making of a Villain

Scott — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:50:08 +0000

Since I promised to share some stories about adapting and running with players’ ideas along the way, here’s a topical one. It’s about a superhero campaign I ran almost ten years ago, and how through sheer serendipity I ended up with a villain who became a recurring antagonist through much of its run. The Enigma [...]

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The Making of a Villain

Virtue: A Homebrew Alignment Variant

Scott — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:51:36 +0000

There’s an RPG blog carnival going on, and the topic is homebrew. It’s certainly a broad topic. To some extent, every campaign is homebrew. Even if you try to run completely by the book, avoiding house rules, there are still rules interpretations to be made. The interpretations of your table are not going to be [...]

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Virtue: A Homebrew Alignment Variant

My Elves are… Odd

Scott — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:40:48 +0000

In an earlier post, I discussed the fact that my dwarves are based roughly on Greek and Roman culture. Among the comments, I mentioned that my elves were a little more nonstandard. Which leads, naturally, to this post. If nothing else, this is spurring me to update my setting to fourth edition. I like to [...]

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My Elves are… Odd

My Dwarves are Roman

Scott — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:51:53 +0000

Well, actually, they’re not. They’re more like a Greek-Roman hybrid. The stereotypical dwarves these days are vaguely Scottish; prior to that, Germanic-flavored dwarves were in vogue. But mine are inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. I bring this up because of a recent post at Unclebear regarding the “vanilla”-ness of D&D settings. I disagreed with [...]

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Encountering the Raven Queen

Scott — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:56:19 +0000

Previously, I looked at some mythological inspirations for D&D’s Raven Queen and considered how those elements might be useful to construct the Raven Queen in-game. There are certainly many possible ways of doing so, given how little there is in the rulebooks about her, but I’ve arrived at something that will work for at least [...]

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Encountering the Raven Queen

Defining the Raven Queen

Scott — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:42:23 +0000

In yesterday’s post, I briefly examined some mythical entities that might serve as inspirations to those who intend to give the Raven Queen a prominent role in their campaigns. Today’s post presents a more fleshed-out, in-game model of the Raven Queen and her domain. Almost none of this is official in any way, of course, [...]

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Defining the Raven Queen