Archive for January, 2024

An Old Aysle To Run Down 2

Filed in Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Mike, Fantasy Games, NPCs & Villains & Monsters, The End Of The Rainbow, Writing & Authoring & The Games Industry, World Design, Pieces Of Creation, Metagaming & Metagame Theory, Blast From The Past on Jan.30, 2024
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Extracts from Mike's TORG Materials

Preliminaries / Introduction: Why you should read this article I h\ave found a whole bunch of material from my old TORG campaign, which I intend to use through 2024 as the foundation of various articles. I’m doing this for a number of reasons, which collectively spell out why it’s worth your time to read them […]

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The Value Of Material Things IV

Filed in Campaign Management, D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering, Mike, The Adventurer's Club (Hero System 5th Ed), PCs, Rewards, The End Of The Rainbow, Tools & Techniques, Pieces Of Creation, All Genres on Jan.23, 2024
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series The Value Of Material Things

Welcome …to the latest installment of the “Value Of Material Things” series. Today’s article will focus on Tesserae (Mosaic Tiles), Silk, and Moonstones. It’s sure to have been deduced, I think, that much of the content of this series is being driven by game prep, and that means that I can simply collate my notes […]

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The Import of the Color of Neckties

Filed in D&D / Pathfinder, Game Mastering, Mike, NPCs & Villains & Monsters, PCs, Planning & Preparation, Players, All Genres on Jan.16, 2024

Writing and uploading this in advance in hopes of forestalling any disruption. It’s been a while since I did something on characterization; the last such was Four Roads To Characterization, back in late 2022. Hopefully this is a worthy extension of the subject. While packing recently, I discovered first-hand something that I already knew, deep […]

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The Mists Of Fear Orrorsh Revisited 1

Filed in Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Mike, Horror Games, NPCs & Villains & Monsters, PCs, Players, The End Of The Rainbow, World Design, House-Rules, Pieces Of Creation, Gaming Environment, All Genres on Jan.08, 2024
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Extracts from Mike's TORG Materials

Preamble: A long time ago, I rewrote some fairly fundamental parts of Orrorsh, the Horror Realm, for reasons explained in the text below. While packing, I discovered where it had been filed away (hidden?). This is not a complete standalone work; you will still need the official supplement. Why, then, should I read it? First, […]

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An Old Aysle To Run Down 1

Filed in Campaign Creation, D&D / Pathfinder, Mike, Fantasy Games, Planning & Preparation, The End Of The Rainbow, Writing & Authoring & The Games Industry, World Design, Pieces Of Creation, Metagaming & Metagame Theory, Blast From The Past on Jan.02, 2024
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Extracts from Mike's TORG Materials

Preliminaries / Introduction: Why you should read this article One of the good aspects of packing everything is that you discover where you had hidden away things that have been archived for long enough that those hiding places had been forgotten. So it is that I h\ave found a whole bunch of material from my […]

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