This month, Tales of a GM has kicked off a fun topic for the RPG Blog Carnival… Gates and Portals. Whether you take them literally as physical gates and doors or abstractly as storytelling techniques, this is a subject that offers lots of room to explore. So today let’s take a look at a common…
Monday the 13th does not quite have the stigma of Friday the 13th, but we do have another vignette as we keep chugging through October’s writing challenge… Today we use Little Spaces: Spacecraft to come up with a science fiction-themed story to cause trouble in someone’s game. The collection of terms today includes: Size: Tiny…
Here we are at day 3 of my Halloween-themed challenge. Each day, I will write up a little vignette that can be used for your horror- or mystery-themed gaming session. This time it even seems a bit Doctor Who inspired, so it might fit into a modern or science fiction context or even a fantasy…
Working on the next Little Spaces product for inspiring moon-based encounters and such, I came up with the following examples: (Sight/Shape/Ringed) After the massive collision on the dark side of the moon, we saw the first of three rings form in close orbit above the surface from the dust and rock kicked into the thin…
As you might have noticed, June has ended, which means it’s now time to gather together all the cool posts that folks wrote for the “What’s in the Hole?” RPG Blog Carnival! And boy are there some cool ones! Monsters, maps, and much much more! In each case, be sure to not just stop at…
Have you ever found a sandwich that’s so big, juicy, messy, and full of sandwichy goodness that you can’t figure out where to start eating it? That’s kind of what happened when I grabbed a copy of Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots To Inspire Game Masters by the authors of GnomeStew.com. This book should be like…
All of this discussion of finding that emotional bond with a character in a campaign brought up something I was discussing a while back with Mike (forged). There are questionnaires all over the ‘net for fleshing out a character, but that only gets you so far. I was reading an issue of SciFi Magazine a…
