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5 Room Dungeon
Tips on how to create five room dungeons that can be used for any location, are short, are quick to plan, easy to polish…
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Playtesting
This is where the citadellians share and collect our tales of playtesting each others submissions.
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Winter is a Character
The weather is something that everyone always notices and talks about, but can't do anything about. It is an important …
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Swords. Why does it always have to be swords?
Excalibur. Stormbringer. Sting. I blame fantasy authors and history professionals that have over simplified things for t…
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The first real link in the conspiracy that wants the heir dead, Baron Frond is the first really important antagonistic NPC my players will meet. This calls for planning!
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The Party Returns to Pyrim
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Session 4 offers the barest of clues as to what happened to Morano
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With Morano kidnapped, how will the players go about protecting Reginald?
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The second session is where the fun begins.
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Old Man Morano arrives in the town of Pyrim to collect all my players together and make them do stuff...
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The best laid plans often don't survive contact with the PCs- or Character Generation
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The umbrella sub that will hopefully, Mathom willing, link to all the submissions relating to the campaign that I am planning on running.
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A Mastersmiths' guide to metals of worth and the knowledge you will need to become a true Master of Metals. by Master Blademsith Cethrik Hammerstone Master of the Thirteeth Blade, Bladesmith to King Regrare Alderkin, Maker of Caldeban…
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A set of basic things to remember that will aid your description of the places your players are in.
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7 Things about NPCs
3 HoH
Seven things I've learned about NPCs
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Applying the Hollywood Formula
Weavers Guild
Learn how to apply one of screenwriting's most effective tools to your own campaign, for a game with better pacing and solid endings.
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So you’ve finally done it. With the best of intentions all around the table, your PCs have finally blundered into the blender like curious gerbils, and now they are hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned. They are doomed, unless yo…
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30 Ways to Cheat Death
3 HoH
Everyone dies. But delaying that impending sentence is the holy grail. Science, scorcery, and wishful thinking do all in their power to bestow such delays. Be your deeds pure or evil, cheating death is neither easy nor reliable.
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Wanderers beware, these gates open not, Except to those only who the way have bought. You may purchase the right to pass me by, By each guessing my riddles. Care to try?
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And the walls came tumbling down...
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Letting one of my players encounter a Raccoon might have been a bad idea... (now with PC summaries written by their respective players.... if everyone does it)
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Get ready, a great deal happened.
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Interrogating the suspects doesn't go as planned.
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My commentary and thoughts on the session we played tonight.
