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Free Dwarven Rune #Font
My friend Paul King over at Creative Kingworks has created a free TrueType font of Dwarven Runes. Head over to his blog to download the file, you can preview the font below. This should make for some great DIY additions to your fantasy RPG campaign (...
Around the blogs... Villains in RPGs
Over the last few weeks we've seen a number of excellent posts about villains and other general badasses. From articles about how to run villains, to developing back stories, to actually playable NPCs to drop into your game, there's been a ton of wri...
One of the best posts in a long ass time...
http://thefineartofthetpk.blogspot.com/2009/06/sandboxes-are-for-kids-and-cat-turds.html Yeah... go there. read that. I couldn't agree more. ...
Best Resources About Playing Roleplaying Games With Your Kids
My oldest son is five. He's right about at that age where we might see if he is interested in playing a game that uses his imagination in a structured format: you know... role playing games. So, I've been collecting links related to this topic and be...
4Etopia - Returning to Forumland
In general, I hate Forumland... But 4Etopia might change all that. It was one of the main reasons why I started blogging about games. In looking for an outlet to discuss games and gaming in an increasing busy life; forums just always came up shor...
Around the blogs...
I've somehow managed to actually read some pretty nifty stuff this week. Its possible you may have seen the same posts as well, but since its Saturnsday -- it's time for me to do my weekly round up of my favorite posts. My wife, the current DM of our...
The Farchives: RPG Blog Carnival Revisited
The Farchives is featured on most Fridays at The Core Mechanic. Its a series where I re-post a popular TCM post or revisit a hot-topic from the previous year. This week, we are looking back on the post that kicked off the first RPG Blog Carnival - wh...
Happy Easter from a Dragon
"Dragon Egg" by David "Darkarts"Thierree Yeah... Easter's kinda like that around here. Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs (Vol. 1) is available now from Lulu Marketplace and Amazon.com. "A tome worth slaying a few....
Arounds the blogs...
Restarting this series to be a weekly feature has seen some false starts... hopefully this will be the last. Here's a short of list of things I've been reading and keeping up with: This page has an absolutely crazy number of links to webpages about.....
An interview with Wolfgang Baur
I'm working on a small project that is building a time line of RPG history, and during my wikipedia / googling meanderings I stumbled on a 2-part interview with Wolfgang Baur of Open Design and Kobold Quarterly. The interview was convincing enough th...
Around the blogs...
Wow... it has almost been a month since I did my last "Around the blogs..." Saturday morning schtick. Well, this is not to say that I haven't been trying my best to keep up to date with the goings on around the RPG blogging community. Here's a healt...
RPG Blog Carnival - Monster & Maps
When I started working on Open Game Table I asked for people to choose what categories of posts they would want in the anthology. New maps and monsters came out as one of the top categories, but the problem was that these were one of the least... .....
Around the blogs...
It had been a while since I've included an "Around the blogs..." update on my readings of RPG related goodness. Here's the list! Warning! Warning! Reveal, an author over at RPGCentric, cracked me up with their post "Be careful with that scroll:... ....
Around the blogs...
Saturday means its time to review this past week's readings on the tubes... wow time flys... So, in no particular order. Your Party as Company. Kinslayer, a guest blogger at UncleBear.com, kicked my week of reading off with a thought provoking... ...
Around the blogs...
Well, I made it through the first week at my new job without any major problems. In fact, I managed to squeeze a fair amount of "auxiliary reading" in between all the other work-related reading and orientation meetings. What have I been reading this....
International Journal of Roleplaying
For those of you out there who are interested in the more theorectical aspects of roleplaying and game design; as well as the social impact and placement of roleplaying games - check out the International Journal of Roleplaying. They just released......
Around the blogs...
Saturday is the weekly wrap up! Let's review what I've been reading (and not just scanning) this week. More Firearms for 4the Edition from Key our Cars. "Warhammer Firearms for DnD". This is a good complement to Stargazer's article on new 4E... ... ...
Around the blogs...
Ah the Saturday weekly reading list. Lost has happened this week; I feel busy than ever with the RPG Blog Anthology project. Nonetheless, I'm still lurking around a few blogs and even managed to leave some comments here and there. Here's my weekly......
Around the Blogs... New Years Resolutions...
Maybe I'll come around to making my own New Year's Resolutions, but for now I'll link to all the RPG bloggers who have already made theirs. This way... we can all hold their feet to the fire come next New Years! Hahaha! What's even better is this... ...
Around the blogs... and YouTube
Well, in contrast to the Christmas craziness in my house (100 kids with new noise-making toys)... and the RPG blogging community has been fairly quiet this week. Nonetheless, this hasn't prevented me from soaking up some of the good stuff around the....
Around the Blogs...
Saturday morning means its time to review what I've been reading... Christmas Gift Lists - If you are looking for something for that old, fat grognard in your life then definitely check out this list of gifts titled "A Grognard Christmas" over at... ...
Around the blogs...
Saturday morning == links to what I've been reading all week! Enjoy! And let me know if there's something I missed or you especially enjoyed yourself. Wyatt over at Turbulent Thoughts posted "Alignment: The Phony Issue", which was timely since I'm.....
Around the blogs...
Saturday... time for my weekly RPG blog round up. RPG Blog Carnival #3: RELIGION is finally closed and a nice write up / summary has been posted over at The Dice Bag. Check it out!RPG Blog Carnival #4: Transitions and Transformations has begun and......
Around the blogs...
Wow.. even when out of town I somehow manage to get this weekly update out the door. Let's see what I've been reading this week... World Building. There are tons of fine articles about this popular topic around the RPG blogosphere, but this week I......
Look what I found...
While doing some research on the backstory and history of Tharizdun for an upcoming post, I StumbledUpon! this page... http://snowmelt.aenashi.com/books/DnD/ Some of the PDFs were busted - so this tool can be used to fix them. No doubt, this... ....
Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs Sneak Peek
Six weeks ago I announced a new project: The 2008 Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs. It was, at the time, a half-baked idea that popped into my head early one Sunday morning after one too many cups of coffee. Of course, I immediately blogged it -.....
Around the blogs...
Saturday means its time to review. What have we here... Rumblings of the Editions Wars have been heard again. It all started this week when RPGCentric explained "Why 4E D&D is geared towards combat" and then a few days later Gamerdome just out'n....
Around the blogs...
Well, its Saturday morning! Its that time when blog traffic slows to crawl and the best thing I can do for you (and your warm cup of coffee) is offer up my weekly reading list. So, without further ado read on and enjoy! 4th Edition Dungeons &... ...
Bleeding Play's PUSH 1 - A Must Read
First off, let me thank 6d6 Fireball for pointing out all those excellent blogs that are not in the RPG Blogger Network. Yesterday, I found a new blog ("One Thousand One") where the author Jonathan Walton seemed to echo my own sentiments about why......
RPG Blogging - An analysis
One thing that is often -not discussed- on RPG blogs is how much traffic they get, from what sources, and how they compare to other RPG blogs (in the network or not). It was discussed (in a way) over at the RPG Bloggers Google Group, but since I... ...
