Archive for October, 2020

The Four Frontiers Of ‘Alien’

Filed in D&D / Pathfinder, Writing & Authoring & The Games Industry, Tools & Techniques, The End Of The Rainbow, Players, Planning & Preparation, NPCs & Villains & Monsters, SciFi & Space Opera Games, Fantasy Games, Mike, Game Mastering, World Design, Campaign Creation on Oct.26, 2020

The First Frontier: Appearance Early science fiction depicted aliens as having animal heads or other elements of animal anatomy. Fantasy, myth, and legend carry the principle even further back in time – the Minotaur of Knossos comes to mind. And I would not be at all surprised to be told that centaurs predate even those […]

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The Miracle Of Wood

Filed in World Design, The End Of The Rainbow, Fantasy Games, Shards Of Divinity (D&D 3.5), Mike, Game Mastering, D&D / Pathfinder, Campaign Creation on Oct.20, 2020

Whew! Finished at last!! This is a long one, folks – more than 16 thousand words, or about four normal Campaign Mastery articles. Heck, that’s approaching game supplement levels… Needless to say, I had no idea it would be anything like that long when I started. I Hope it’s worth the wait! Awakened Trees Most […]

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Creating a Campaign Physics

Filed in Planning & Preparation, World Design, Writing & Authoring & The Games Industry, Tools & Techniques, The End Of The Rainbow, Rules & Mechanics, PCs, NPCs & Villains & Monsters, Zenith-3 (Original system based on Hero System 4th Ed), The Adventurer's Club (Hero System 5th Ed), Shards Of Divinity (D&D 3.5), Mike, Game Mastering, D&D / Pathfinder, Campaign Management, Metagaming & Metagame Theory, Campaign Creation, House-Rules, Fumanor/Seeds Of Empire (D&D 3.5), Fumanor/One Faith (D&D 3.5) on Oct.05, 2020

“Game Physics*” have been on my mind lately, no doubt because of my recently published article on the underpinning theory of how Magic works in my superhero campaign. This article is primarily aimed at D&D / Pathfinder / Fantasy GMs, but it may also serve in other genres in which the underlying “science” doesn’t match […]

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