Posts Tagged ‘Blog Carnival’

The Moral Of The Story: The Morality and Ethics of playing an RPG

Moral: Concerned with right & wrong conduct or duty to one’s neighbours; conforming to, or required, or justified by, conscience if not law. Etihcs: The science of, or a system of, morals. I don’t know why, but I always had the sense of there being a bigger difference between the two terms. Morals was always […]

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My Biggest Mistakes: The Woes Of Piety & Magic

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series My Biggest Mistakes

Some mistakes you (hopefully) only make once; the mistakes that I’ve blogged about so far as part of this month’s carnival fall into that category. But some mistakes are bound to recur by their nature, and it is just as important to know how to recover from those. These mistakes might derive from a flawed […]

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My Biggest Mistakes: Magneto’s Maze – My B.A. Felton Moment

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series My Biggest Mistakes

There came a time when I had to move out of the city (where my players were), and back to the small town in which I had grown up, for financial reasons. That would spell the end of most campaigns, but I had willing players and exceptional determination. I would write a scenario each week […]

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My Biggest Mistakes: Defying Expectations in the Zenith-3 Campaign

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series My Biggest Mistakes

Some expectations are made to be confounded if it’s at all possible. If someone expects a dull and boring campaign, that’s one you don’t want to live up to. If someone expects to get favourable treatment because you owe them money, I’m happy to dissapoint them – and to repay the debt as soon as […]

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My Biggest Mistakes: Information Overload in the Zenith-3 Campaign

This entry is part 3 of 7 in the series My Biggest Mistakes

As you should know by now if you’re a regular visitor here – and with 2 new articles every week, why aren’t you, if you’re not!? – this month’s blog carnival is on the subject of mistakes, how you recover from them, and what lessons you’ve learnt for the future. I made a couple of […]

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My Biggest Mistakes: A slip of the tongue

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series My Biggest Mistakes

We all make mistakes. Some are trivial – I mean, who really cares in the long run if that critter did d6+1 damage and not d6+2? But I’m talking about bigger mistakes, the kind that matter. I’ve got five of them, and as part of this month’s blog carnival, which we at Campaign Mastery are […]

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Blog Carnival: Game Master Mistakes

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series My Biggest Mistakes

Mistakes – ones you’ve made in the past and how you got past them, one’s you’re making now and don’t know how to solve. That’s the theme for this month’s RPG Blog Carnival. I remember reading some great advice awhile ago: it’s ok to make a lot of mistakes as long as you don’t make […]

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Game Mastering at Conventions Tips

This month’s RPG Carnival is about RPG conventions. GMing at cons is a fine art. It’s high pressure chaos that includes a lot more table and environment management than your typical home game. Add in a group of total strangers as players with unknown skills and game knowledge, and you have a recipe for an […]

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My House Rules for D&D

This month’s RPG Bloggers carnival is themed on D&D. The guest article below by Mike E. has some great ideas for modifying your D&D experience by borrowing what he likes from one edition and adding it to another. I’d like to think I’m a fairly good DM. I know I have my strengths, and I […]

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7 Steampunk Resources

This month’s RPG Blog Carnival theme is Steampunk. My most memorable steampunk experience is Castle Falkenstein. The card mechanic at the time I felt opened gamers up to alternative resolution systems in much the same way Amber broke out the diceless movement. Castle Falkenstein’s crazy universe was a cross between Jules Verne and Alice in […]

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The Flói Af Loft & Ryk Bolti (conclusion)

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series The Flói Af Loft & The Ryk Bolti

Within The Flói Af Loft Finally, the characters have reached the floor of the great chasm, and started looking around. It is even colder than expected, no more than 10°C, and there is perpetual dust and ash in the air. The sand dunes underfoot are treacherous; seemingly-solid surfaces offer no more support than smoke. As […]

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The Flói Af Loft & Ryk Bolti (continued)

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series The Flói Af Loft & The Ryk Bolti

Fólk Afsteinn (The People Of Stone) These are a race of people capable of living in this environment not through physical adaption so much as through intelligent manipulation of their environment. I chose a blending of Dwarf and Halfling and called them Dwarvlings, because I wanted them to make a reasonable basis for PCs, but […]

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