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Review: "Tomb of Annihilation"
Review: “Tomb of Annihilation”
I really wanted to hate Tomb of Annihilation. It’s a Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition campaign book advertised as a module full of super-hard challenges and vicious traps. “You will die,” said the advertising and interviews. I wanted to write a scathing, vicious review deriding the Killer Dungeon and all the malicious, antisocial behavior it fosters among roleplaying game players. Rail against the…
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Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game Starter Kit Released
The first product for the Sentinel Comics Roleplaying Game, and Critical-Hits Studios’ first mass produced/print product (in partnership with Greater Than Games), is on its way into stores and into the hands of preorderers now. Your local game store can order it for distribution, and if you don’t have a game store, you can order it directly from the Greater Than Games store shortly.
The Starter…
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Queer Creations
Kotaku recently published an article on queerness in the D&D game. To be more specific, this article is about the inclusion of queer people and, more specifically, a glimpse into their lives as normal, accepted citizens of imaginary worlds. The fifth edition Player’s Handbook, for the first time in D&D history, makes a bold statement about sexuality and gender. It encourages you to imagine…
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A Study in CCGs: Magic/Heartstone/Star Wars: Destiny
A Study in CCGs: Magic/Heartstone/Star Wars: Destiny
I would never claim to be a pro, but I’ve played my fair share of collectible card games. In some ways, I think we are in a golden age of the CCG. Designers now understand the ‘magic’ that Magic: The Gathering brought to the game industry better than ever. Players bases and enthusiasm seem large and passionate both online and in person. In this article I discuss Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone,…
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The Wizards and the Sheep
The Wizards and the Sheep by @multiplexer #dungeonomics
This is a long-winded story about how master 20th level wizards often get into the sheep business.
First: Magic is an information profession.
Wizards preserve and transfer knowledge through writing books. Books they write on parchment.
Parchment is an ancient technology. It is almost as old as magic. Some claim parchment and magic have a symbiotic chicken and the egg relationship. One arose and…
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DEAD SCARE: What I Learned
DEAD SCARE: What I Learned
On February 16th, 2015, I launched a Kickstarter for DEAD SCARE, a 1950s, feminist, fascist-punching, zed-bashing tabletop RPG by Elsa S. Henry. Today, almost two years later, DEAD SCARE is out to the public. It’s been a long journey, I added a business partner in Brian Patterson, and I’ve learned a lot during the process.
Wanna check out DEAD SCARE? Here’s the PDF link!
Wanna know what lessons I…
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Rodney Thompson on "Dusk City Outlaws" RPG
Interview: Rodney Thompson (@antarianranger) on "Dusk City Outlaws" RPG
Heist films and TV shows have been around for a while, from the original Ocean’s 11 to the newer Ocean’s Eleven and shows like Leverage. More recently, we’ve started to see more heist games come to RPGs, especially as heists cross over with fantasy in novels like Mistborn and The Lies of Locke Lamora.
The newest fantasy heist game to hit Kickstarter is Dusk City Outlaws, designed by Rodney…
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Debt Financing the Evil Lord's Iconic Dungeon
Debt Financing the Evil Lord's Iconic Dungeon by @multiplexer #Dungeonomics
A hallmark of an Evil Lord is the dungeon. Evil Lords fill multi-level sprawling structures with treasure rooms, traps, hidden corridors, and overwrought set pieces. No true villain is complete without a huge, intricate and expensive pad. She has to keep her stuff somewhere and if Evil Lords have anything, it is stuff. Their lair isn’t always dungeon-shaped, per se.
It could be:
The enormous…
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Dalt Wisney's World: A D&D5e Play Report
Dalt Wisney's World: A D&D5e Play Report by @chattydm
My ongoing D&D campaign is rolling along fine. It’s by far the most casual one I’ve played. We’re playing in a world I described here. The idea was to mix and match the themes, locales, characters and phenomenon from gamer to game to create sessions whole-cloth. As it happens, I had a much harder time making adventures that took off the ground than expected. I often floundered with my options and…
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The Adventuring Party Bond Market
The Adventuring Party Bond Market
The stock market works like so:
A company – perhaps an Adventuring Company – does a thing or performs a service like “ridding the world of evil” or “selling insurance.”
The company’s owner wants to raise some investment capital for said company.
The owner sells bits of the company to the public in exchange for lucrative cash and prizes.
The public hands over money in exchange for paper at some…
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In Memory of a True Adventurer: Randall Walker
For many of us, when you take away rules, campaigns, and plotlines of any good RPG, you realize that what was important all along was the people you were playing with. No one embodied that more than Randall Walker, who passed away last week.
I don’t remember exactly when I started talking to Randy online. Likely it was back when I was running the RPG Bloggers Network and read his blogabout his…
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Review: "Storm King's Thunder" - A Giant-Sized Toolbox
Review: "Storm King's Thunder" - A Giant-Sized Toolbox by @JonBolds #dnd
Okay, so I’ve got this great new D&D adventure for you. Giants! Dragons! Rollicking cross-continent adventuring! Sure it has some problems, like it starts with fighting goblins in a cave- no wait don’t go!
Storm King’s Thunder is a campaign-length adventure for Dungeons & Dragons5th Edition, designed to take characters from either 1st or 5th to 11th level. In the story, players travel to and fro…
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The Adventurer Cartels
The Adventurer Cartels, a new #Dungeonomics column by @multiplexer
The Super Evil Lich King of Ancient Yore reemerged from his 10,000 year nap to, once again, take over the world. He waved his arms and unleashed hordes of undead. The undead shambled across the countryside and munched on village heads.
The villagers found this inconvenient. They liked their heads.
The Lich King’s reawakening created a sudden and pressing demand in current Adventurer commodity…
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The Quest for a Magic Sword
The Quest for a Magic Sword: a #Dungeonomics column by @multiplexer
The Adventurers stood in the wreckage of the burnt-out peasant village. The survivors told the Adventurers the Halfling Barbarian raiders wielded magic swords. Real magic, the villagers insisted. The swords cut through fat, bloody victims like a scythe through dry straw. Sword met flesh and the sword kept going. No resistance.
It was terrifying, the peasants said. They murdered the local…
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Interstellar Pirates Part 2: The Pirate Captain and Crew!
Interstellar Pirates Part 2: The Pirate Captain and Crew!
The adventurers stole a ship! The adventurers mutinied, snuck on board and hacked it out from under watchful AIs, or swindled a ship in a card game. They got their hands on a ship and got away with it. Congratulations! Sure, space faring merchant companies, interstellar authorities, and other swindlers are after them. But, now, floating around in the inky blackness of space, they’re free.
A…
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Interstellar Pirates Part 1: The Merchant Ships
Interstellar Pirates Part 1: The Merchant Ships by @multiplexer
Introduction
Interstellar travel isn’t completely analogous to 16th century sea travel. For one, delicious air bathed ships even during the most dangerous voyages. The crew wasn’t at risk for explosive decompression from a bad bit of engineering or a poorly soldiered joint. But in many ways, one informs the other. Voyages faced imperious captains, perilous voyages, uncaring financial backers,…
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The Dead Weight Loss of Plunder
The Dead Weight Loss of Plunder
Take the common Murder Hobo.
He’s ready for adventure. He gathered up his buddies. He has starting gear.
He goes to the neighborhood bar. He finds the old man quest giver skulking in a concealed dark corner. He plops down heavily in the booth. He adjusts his various knives and axes when they poke into his leg.
The old man quest giver has a quest today. The goblins have infested the nearby…
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