My First M-Force Mission
I needed something for the “Prose” tab, so I edited a chapter from my NaNoWriMo M-Force novel into a short story, The Dark Lord Vigoda. Read at World Anvil Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
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The White Album
What’s an RPG setting without a Holy Grail? Read at World Anvil Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
Dumb Table: Campaign-Changing Events (Inspired by GWAR)
Note: Starting next week, the regular blog day is going to be Thursday. But for now, here’s a dumb table. Has your campaign gotten sucky and boring? One way to break out of a game rut is to throw out the status quo so the players are forced into new and unexpected situations. Here’s a…
Cinemechanix Design Journal: Areas Where QAGS Needs Improvement
You’ve probably already figured out that I took a break from blogging last week because of the holidays. I was tempted to use the same excuse this week, but decided to start the new year off on the right foot and finally get around to the Cinemechanix posts I hinted at a few months ago…
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The Company (Rules for Group Resources)
When Hex wrote M-Force: Monster Hunting in the 21st Century, we included a lot of detail about the organization and all of the support that it could offer a team of monster hunters in the field. Unfortunately, we didn’t include any rules for dealing with this support structure, which meant the competence and response time…
Khezvaros Cartography Part 6
Note: This is part 6 of a continuing series (currently up to 11 entries). I’m making an old post public each time I make a new one for patrons (so when Part 12 goes up, Part 7 will go public). If you don’t want to wait, become a patron! You can find out more about…
The Lands of the Dragonsword Throne
As I told you last week, I decided to write an awful fantasy novel for National Novel Writing Month. So far I’ve written right around the 1667 words per day needed to finish in 30 days and I feel good about finishing on time. My original plan was to build the world as I went, but…
Apocalyptic Scenarios
For the last week, both parties have been telling you about the terrible, terrible things that will happen if the other party wins. In the spirit of our short-term electoral thinking, here are apocalyptic scenarios for your game. Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
D&D 5E Review Part 17: Final Overview
Now that I’ve picked through the D&D 5E rules in way too much detail, it’s time for a general look at the good, the bad, and the Drow Rangers who dual-wield scimitars. There are a lot of possible ways to break it all down, but I’m going to go with three categories: Rules (Do they…