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Character Weaving
Do you understand Six Degrees of Seperation?
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Mirror Characters
If you are a GM you will frequently find yourself in need of quality allies and enemies for your campaign and find yourself pressed for time. Any old NPC will …
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More Realistic Horses and their care and maintainence
"There is something about the outside of a horse...that is good for the inside of a man."
Winston Churchill
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'The Speed Limit is ' - about Magic Items
I have to admit I HATE the number of casual magic items that appear in the average fantasy game, D20 being the worst. The amount of magic is being reinforced by…
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Not Just Rolling Dice: A Fight Scene
A fight scene should be more than just rolling dice and counting numbers. It should be a chance for you to roleplay.
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Madness or Why You Should Do All Of This
After reading a MoonHunter campaign write up, Captain Penguin Says, 'THIS IS MADNESS! MADNESS!So…..Comprehensive….Making…Penguin’s&he…
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Roll Playing Fixes
Say, MoonHunter, have any packs to give to a character to make them actually roleplay instead of just dictating their character's actions? The majority of my pl…
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Running Tactical Scenes at Lightning Speeds with Many Players
Action sequences in movies are fast, furious, and over all to fast. They are exciting moments that most gamers are looking forward to. Yet combat in most game…
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Your Roleplaying Game Sucks
This one of many articles I am posting up about game design. It explains some of the minimum requirements for a product to be produced or even be 'good'. This i…
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Everything I Learned About Raising Children I Learned From Gaming
When my first born came into the world, my gaming life skidded to a halt. However, in a strange way, my gaming life continued.
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The Crawl, Doing It the Cinematic Way
I am not a normal fantasy GM. If a player is delving through a dark tomb searching for loot in my campaign, he is probably on a fruitless quest. I dislike the d…
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Gamer's Dictionary of Measurements
The world is full of different measurement systems. Some are old, some new, some obvious, some obscure. Each one is important enough to some group of people to …
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Systems of Measurement
Systems of measurement might not sound like the most interesting of things, but they can be used to good effect in a role play campaign. There are three main wa…
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Creeds
While we're talking about the subject of constructing religions, I'd like to bring up the concept of the Creed. The creed is nothing more than a simple statemen…
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Wild West - A Genre Untapped
Of all the published roleplaying games, we have a huge number of fantasy games, a good number of sci-fi games, a smattering of modern and modern variation games…
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Why I don't want to modify Elves and Dwarves
My issue with modifying/removing dwarves and elves is that the PC's may want to play them.
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Famous Gaming Laws Axioms and Principles
This is a list of laws, axioms, and strong recomendations from published and/or famous game designers/ writers I have recently collected. If you find them, add …
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Hey, Cool! An Ice Age.
Do you ever give ice ages a thought?
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Various Theisms
Religions. Sigh. Can't live with them, can't live without them. They have been such an intergral part of Human existance, that ignoring them is something you d…
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WWMWBI - If a New Form of Magic Occured
Yesterday, new magic appeared upon your world. What happens next.