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Imagine the Star Trek universe turned dark. For a long-time fan of the TV series and movies this idea would be, perhaps, anathema. Yet, in our gaming group, this is an idea that I am toying with for our forthcoming Sunday Special game in September….
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The Challenge Begins… Last night the KIA SpecOps group began a new adventure for Dungeons & Dragons. The Challenge of Vixoris, as I named the story, is the first adventure that we’ve played using the 4th edition rules that has been home-written. Here then are…
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Yesterday I came home from Continuum 2010, an excellent bi-annual roleplaying convention. Energised and revitalised by the ideas and conversations I had experienced, clutching a copy of the rather cool OpenQuest rulebook, I have been reflecting on what to do next within my own roleplaying…
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The roleplaying hobby is, by its very nature, driven by the people with whom you get to game. Essentially if you have no players then you have no game… unless you play solo using something like Mythic. I’m finding that all of my projects move…
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Does anyone have any tips on how to run a game using an online tool like KloOge.Werks? Any tips or ideas? Why do I ask? Well, I’ve got the opportunity to run such a game for a couple of newbies who want to get into…
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There is one game system that I have been wanting to try to run for, frankly, years. Hero System was something that I discovered back when the 5th Edition was released. I got to play it when I visited Origins in Columbus, Ohio way back…
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Every campaign deserves factions. A faction is, broadly speaking, a group of people connected by a shared belief or opinion within a larger group. In terms of the roleplaying campaign, factions are the spice that lifts your game from individual encounters linked only by the…
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I’ve become acutely aware that I haven’t posted much to this site since I revamped it at Christmas. What, you may ask, am I playing at?
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One of the first things for a new Gamesmaster to get their head around is what it is, exactly, that they are getting themselves into. Roleplaying games are unusual things and, whilst many words can be found elsewhere that define them, you need to work…
