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Game Design Archive
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Episodic Adventures: A New Take on RPG Adventure Design?
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 13 CommentsNo, but life can get busy. Sometimes so busy that you leave the gaming table for 15-years before you realize how much you love playing RPGs. Even then, once you... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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. -
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... -
Worldbuilding
Posted on February 28, 2011 | 1 CommentI recently had the pleasure of being a guest on Flying Island Press’s monthly podcast, Galley Table, along with Zach Ricks, Jeff Hite, Doc Coleman, Scott Roche, and JP Losier.... -
Gunplay and Powder Weapons III
Posted on December 29, 2010 | No CommentsThis is the third of what should have been a two part series about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article covers the design plan that went into... -
Gunplay and Powder Weapons I
Posted on December 14, 2010 | 12 CommentsThis is the first of two articles about including firearms in a fantasy role-playing game. This article discusses including firearms in terms of game philosophy and game preferences. The next... -
Greetings from December 5th, 1920
Posted on December 5, 2010 | No CommentsI am one of the newest contributors at Nevermet Press and it is time for an introduction. An unfortunate accident involving a time machine and a sledgehammer stranded me in... -
The Dead Queens of Morvena – Cover and Setting Preview
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 8 CommentsHere’s a preview of the cover for the upcoming Dead Queens of Morvena for Savage Worlds. Matt Meyer is the artist – you can check out more of his work... -
Horror: What Scares You?
Posted on October 29, 2010 | No CommentsI’ve been spending a good amount of time lately thinking about horror. NMP’s upcoming product Dead Queens of Morvena fits snugly into this genre. The basic premise of this setting... -
Grit, Steampunk & Fantasy – Sources of Inspiration
Posted on October 28, 2010 | 22 CommentsMany of you who follow Nevermet Press know that we are working on a quasi fantasy steampunk setting called “Loaerth & Feywyrd” (although we prefer to think of it as coalpunk)... -
Notes on Demons and Undead
Posted on September 3, 2010 | No Commentsby John Payne I wrote this for Shayakand and plan to develop it in the future. Feel free to adapt them to your setting. For more details behind the scenes,... -
Where’s the Love? Emotion in RPGs
Posted on August 25, 2010 | 2 Commentsby John S.R. Schutt While the world RPGs is filled with abstractions and simplifications, from the hit point system to the alignment system, one thing that remains constant, at least... -
Elves in Sheep’s Clothing
Posted on August 23, 2010 | 5 Commentsby Christian Martinez Hello everyone! This is my first post here on the blog and I hope to be making more on a fairly frequent basis. I’m a new face... -
More Than Reskinning the Horse
Posted on August 20, 2010 | 3 Commentsby John Payne Sometimes I want the players to feel like they are in a place that is different. I don’t mean different in a disturbing way, but in a... -
The Chaos of Game Night
Posted on August 13, 2010 | 4 CommentsImmersion, Interaction, and Organic Worlds by Charles Dickey When I engage in a role-playing game, whether as a player or GM, my highest priority is immersion. A few defining points... -
“You feel strangely compelled to…”
Posted on August 9, 2010 | 11 Commentsby Tony Hoffart Have you ever heard “You feel strangely compelled to…” said by the GM during a role-playing session? I have, and I’ve probably said it myself a few... -
Deathscapes: Addendum
Posted on August 6, 2010 | No Commentsby JSR Schutt I have seen death. Thoughts circulate in my mind of what I wrote in that last post, what I understand now I did not then, what better... -
Personality as Attributes?
Posted on August 4, 2010 | 3 Commentsby Tony Hoffart As a designer, I generally lean towards more “simulationist” approaches to games. Not that I prescribe to much of the high-minded gaming philosophy schools that people might... -
Deathscapes
Posted on August 2, 2010 | 1 Commentby J.S.R. Schutt The afterlife is not something to be taken lightly: neither here in the real world nor by characters in the fictional worlds of roleplaying games. In our... -
The Business of Religion
Posted on July 30, 2010 | No Commentsby Tony Hoffart One of our talented writers, Matthew Meyer just finished a couple very interesting posts on Alignments and the Divine in D&D, and like all good discussions about... -
Mixing it up with EVIL
Posted on July 26, 2010 | 2 CommentsBy Jonathan Jacobs Alignment in Dungeons & Dragons is used as a guideline by players and dungeon masters (DM) to compartmentalize the game world into clear choices of good or... -
Religion in Roleplaying Games
Posted on July 21, 2010 | 11 CommentsReligion in most RPG’s has always seemed bland to me. No doubt it’s due to the sensitive nature of the subject, but it seems like successive systems have generally glazed... -
RPG Character Alignments
Posted on July 19, 2010 | 16 CommentsBy Matthew Meyer Alignment has been a staple of many roleplaying games since the industry’s beginnings. It’s been the subject of countless essays in fanzines and blog posts. Most people...
