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Role-Playing Discussions

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A blog covering all aspects of role-playing including new games, old games, events, film adaptations, and video games.

Added on: Aug 20th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Carson F. Ball
Listed in: Gaming Computer & Video Games
Tags: game video rpg role-playing

Recent Posts

More Story ideas

Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 19:41 in table-top, dungeon mastering

As you may have noticed from some of my other posts – especially my Halloween post – that I am a fan of horror. This interest extends into role-playing for me and I am always looking for new and unique story ideas for my campaigns. I ju...
Manual of the Planes review

Posted on Tuesday December 1st, 2009 at 17:56 in dungeons & dragons, table-top, ravenloft, ghostwalk, shadowfell, feywild, manual of the planes

I recently purchased the 4th edition version of “The Manual of the Planes”. Playing in bizarre areas has always appealed to me (I really liked Planescape from AD&D 2nd Edition) and I wanted to see what changes were made since 3rd Edi...
Ways to avoid annoying your players

Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 18:47 in Quest, campaign, problem, planning, mission, session, pitfall, dungeons & dragons, table-top, dungeon mastering, involving players

There are many ways to annoy, aggravate, frustrate, and generally irk your players. Unfortunately, many of these are easy to do without realizing it. If you want to keep your campaign going – and your players happy – there are equally e...
Using Sound Effects in Role-Playing

Posted on Saturday October 31st, 2009 at 10:47 in Free, sound, effect, atmosphere, mood, dungeons & dragons, table-top, dungeon mastering

With the increasing role of computers in table-top role-playing, I am surprised that the use of sound effects are not more common. This would be an easy atmosphere builder to add to a campaign that could greatly increase the immersion into the story...
Role-playing horror movie monsters

Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 19:37 in movie, Film, horror, monster, Frankenstein, stuff, pinhead, blob, dm, hellraiser, dungeons & dragons, table-top

If you are like me, you love horror movies and role-playing. Wouldn’t it be great to incorporate some of your favorite monsters into Dungeons & Dragons? Well, fortunately, I have given this idea way too much thought so you don’t hav...
Review of R. A. Salvatore’s “The Ghost King”

Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 20:30 in review, novel, dungeons & dragons, drizzt, r. a. salvatore, ghost king

Recently I had the good fortune to receive two “Advanced Readers Copies” of soon to be released Dungeons & Dragons novels by R. A. Salvatore for review. I gave one to my wife to read, so there may be a guest (or another full-time) wr...