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- The Trivium Proportion, Part 11 (A Cyberpunk Tale), by David Phillips
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- The Trivium Proportion, Part 11 (A Cyberpunk Tale), by David Phillips
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Editorials Archive
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Your Character’s Worst Fear
Posted on April 16, 2012 | No CommentsWhat scares your PCs? I mean, what truly scares the bejeezus out of them? RPGs are filled with scary creatures. As a DM, you have an obscene amount of riches... -
Time-Shifting: A Revenant Crashes My Birthday D&D Session
Posted on April 9, 2012 | No CommentsSure, we in North America just “sprung forward”, but I experienced something in my last D&D session that turned the clocks back years. When an old friend and former D&D... -
The Trivium Proportion: Developer Diary One
Posted on April 1, 2012 | 1 CommentWhen I started to prepare for this story series, I was just getting my feet wet with twitter. So, I decided, in order to promote The Trivium Proportion in an... -
The Trivium Proportion, The TV Show
Posted on April 1, 2012 | No CommentsNow announcing, The Trivium Proportion! Seth Rogan has already agreed to play Jarred Dobson. Charlize Theron will hopefully be signing on to play the venerable Kayla Summers. Finally, Zooey Deschanel... -
Four Things To Love About RPGs
Posted on February 28, 2012 | 1 CommentThinking on what I love and hate most about table-top RPGs was actually a lot harder than I would have expected. I’ve been jotting down notes all month, reading up... -
Hunting the Beast: The Real Reason I Left D&D (Only To Return)
Posted on January 31, 2012 | 3 CommentsWhen a person leaves anything that he or she loves doing, deep-seeded reasons have to be involved. What follows is an attempt, after a 15-year hiatus from TTRPG, to delve... -
Back From The (Un)Dead: How a 15-Year D&D Hiatus Ended
Posted on January 24, 2012 | 9 CommentsIn April of 2011, I came home to Dungeons & Dragons after a 15 year absence. It was a decision made outside the vacuum of the TTRPG community, hence totally... -
Slumbering Heroes – A Super-Powered Campaign Setting
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 1 CommentEvery gamer faces the same dilemma at some point: What game should I run next? Well, this article proposes that you take two genres and slam them together to... -
Fifth Time’s a Charm! Will the New Edition of D&D Bring Back What We Lost?
Posted on January 17, 2012 | 12 CommentsIt’s not a rumor any more. It’s a real life, honest to goodness fact – Wizard of the Coast is planning Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Doubtless filled with the... -
Interview with Angel Leigh McCoy, Stories in the Ether Author & Guild Wars 2 Designer
Posted on January 12, 2012 | 33 CommentsAngel Leigh McCoy loves writing. Her fiction has appeared in numerous print and digital media, and in 2011 alone she published stories in the anthologies Beast Within 2, Fear of the Dark, Growing... -
Allow your Players to be Awesome
Posted on January 3, 2012 | 8 CommentsThe game master brings the plot and the settings, and the players bring the action heroes. The goal of everyone, both players and the GM, is to create something Awesome. -
2011 Year in Review
Posted on December 30, 2011 | 2 CommentsWell, 2012 is just around the corner folks. Today, I’d like to take the opportunity to review where we’ve been and what we’ve learned in 2011. It’s been an interesting... -
Steampunk: I Want To Be Convinced…
Posted on December 29, 2011 | 15 CommentsI am not all that much of a fan of steampunk—but, I wanted to get educated on the topic. I thought, “Maybe the reason I do not like steampunk all that... -
Musings on Krampus, Anti-Heros, and Adventure
Posted on December 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsThis week is the Krampus Christmas Carnival. This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is “Heroes—Living & Dead“. And there’s the crossover. Krampus could be considered the perfect antihero. He (it?)... -
Game Design and Risk vs. Reward, or Why Game Balance Matters
Posted on November 7, 2011 | 20 CommentsLast week I was briefly involved in a Twitter conversation with Sean Preston, Michael Wolf, Tracy Barnett, and Marshall Smith about whether Pathfinder RPG or another system (Savage Worlds) would be... -
#SteampunkGear on Twitter
Posted on November 1, 2011 | 6 CommentsI’ve been posting on Twitter over the few weeks the names of fantasy steampunk gear under the hashtag #steampunkgear. Things like “Dr. Stanley’s Eicosapentine Oil of Mysteries” or “Armstrong’s Pneumatic... -
Mind Flayer Redesigns
Posted on October 19, 2011 | 9 CommentsI have been reading H.P. Lovecraft lately and he is influencing my style a bit… The mind flayers – also known as the illithids – are one of the most... -
Author Interview: Philip Athans (Part 2)
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No CommentsLast Friday, October 14th we published a wonderful steampunk story, “I Made a Friend“, about a boy looking to fill the void left by his father’s death in the Great... -
Author Interview: Philip Athans (Part 1)
Posted on October 12, 2011 | 2 CommentsPhilip Athans is the New York Times best-selling author of Annihilation and ten other fantasy and horror books including The Guide to Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction and the recently-released Completely Broken. Born... -
Artist Spotlight: Rob Torno
Posted on October 3, 2011 | 1 CommentRob Torno is a long distance art stalker... read more about Rob and his amazing art in this exclusive interview. -
Challenging Terrain: Hysterical Mob [4E D&D]
Posted on September 21, 2011 | 3 CommentsI employed this in a game where the scenario had the party members in a crowded temple – every square occupied by something or something – when the thatch roof... -
Souljack: Card Crack
Posted on July 28, 2011 | No CommentsIt seems ...we can't have our cake and eat it too. -
What makes a Badass Steampunk RPG?
Posted on July 20, 2011 | 5 CommentsI would argue even that all the really badass examples of steampunk happen when the genre (a mashup of genres itself) is mashed up with another genre. -
Artist Spotlight: J Lonnee
Posted on July 6, 2011 | 1 CommentWe caught up with J earlier this summer and asked him about his background, how he got into illustrating for game companies, and how he keeps up with developing his talent. -
Bad Ass Gaming (July RPG Blog Carnival)
Posted on July 6, 2011 | 29 CommentsGreetings! July is finally here and now it’s our turn to take stab at hosting and choosing the topic for this months’ RPG Blog Carnival. The topic? What Makes a... -
Artist Spotlight: Matthew Meyer
Posted on May 31, 2011 | 3 CommentsMatthew Meyer was born in Milwaukee and raised outside of Philadelphia in Southern New Jersey. He studied painting and illustration at Ringling College of Art and Design, earning his BFA... -
Music in Role-Playing Games.
Posted on May 25, 2011 | 8 CommentsSince my first game mastering experience, I’ve tried to achieve a depth in my storytelling that equates with the emotive quality of film. I longed to tug at my player’s... -
Lessons from Recent Movies
Posted on April 14, 2011 | No CommentsAt a recent film festival, I had the opportunity to watch three movies, Skeletons, Bird on a Wire and Mission London. As this is an RPG blog, I will discuss... -
The A, B, C of Nevermet Press
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThis post is a little light-hearted fun post about Nevermet Press. We hope you enjoy it, and maybe learn something new about us along the way. A is for our... -
A Birthday Column
Posted on March 9, 2011 | No CommentsGreetings from March 9, 1911 Currently I find myself hiding in Sturmhalten. If I am not at my mailing address then my Birthday cannot find me and if it cannot...
