Review: Adventures in Middle Earth Player’s Guide Published by the British RPG studio, Cubicle 7, the first book in the Adventures in Middle Earth product line is the Player’s Guide. Cubicle 7 current publishes of the One Ring roleplaying game […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Build and Play While prepainted plastic minis have returned to stores, for a few years there it was hard to find minis on the non-secondary market (i.e. gaming stores that specialized in minis or eBay). Lego minifigs made a nice […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One Ring I read Lord of the Rings when I was twelve. But even at this young age I saw a plot hole that never sat right with me. The Ring of Power allowed one person to become invisible to everyone […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy World XV: Other Realms A detailed fantasy world can be called “complete” when as little as a single region has been detailed, typically a small continent or one side of a larger continent. But even with enough […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Watcher in the Water Because I like to keep this webcomic G-rated (or, at the worst, PG) I’ll leave the details of this strip vague: either you get it or you don’t. Some bits of pop culture just saturate the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A D&D Movie? Old news now but not so old as to be irrelevant: the idea of a Dungeons & Dragons movie has re-entered the gamer consciousness. First there was the news Warner Brothers had acquired the rights and had […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cursed with awesome The DM PC or Dungeon Master Player Character is really an NPC that acts like a PC: going on adventures, saving the day, and often upstaging the actual PCs. Because the GM of the game cannot play […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy World X: History Many aspects of worldbuilding have an instant payoff. The very first descriptive words of the Hook can establish the tone, nations and cities quickly establish the backdrop, racial or class limitations drive character creation, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy Campaign World IV: Race Non-human races are a big part of what separates Fantasy fiction from Swords & Sorcerery (and extremely poorly researched historical fiction). Folk Tales, Mythology, and Tolkien have all blended together in a smoothy […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Building a Fantasy Campaign World III: Geography Eventually, when designing a new fantasy campaign world, you’ll want to map things out. For many this is just doodling on paper or in Photoshop or turning to a campaign cartography or fractal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
