Finding Local Gamers - Role Playing Games
You've moved into a new town, and want to get connected with other local gamers. You look up in the phone book, only to find that "gaming" in this town means stores that sell computer games or slot machines. There are no stores selling role ... [... more]
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Shadows RPG Review - Role Playing Games
One of my big interests with role playing games, besides playing them myself, is encouraging parents to role play with their kids. Role playing with kids is a great way for parents to really find out how their kids react to failure, to loss, to ... [... more]
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A Call of Cthulhu Scenario, Curse Of Two Rivers - Role ...
This Wild West Call of Cthulhu scenario is a great break from your group's typical 1920s adventures. The survivors of this scenario might very well pursue further investigations, leading to a Wild West campaign. The town of Two Rivers is a silver ... [... more]
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Solipsist Review - Role Playing Games
One of the reasons I love Indie RPGs is that they're more focused than big name RPGs. They don't try to be the "play any genre" game, but rather take a very specific genre and make the rules work extremely well in that genre. Many times these .. [... more]
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Creating Your First Role Playing Character - Role ...
Okay, so you've decided to take the plunge and give role playing games a try. One of the first things you'll be asked to do is to create a character. Your character is your alter ego in the game world. You can think of your character as one of ... [... more]
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Why Run Your Own RPG Convention? - Role Playing Games
When it came time to write a series of articles about starting your own local RPG convention, I went straight to the source. Clearly, if anyone understands the various reasons you might want to start a local gaming convention, it's Dave. So I put ... [... more]
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Buying RPG Dice - Role Playing Games
Dungeons & Dragons set the stage for using different sorts of RPG dice back in the day. When we talk about dice, we use a convenient sort of shorthand. We use a lower-case 'd', followed by the number of sides the die has. So d6 is a regular six ... [... more]
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The Shadows Of Yesterday Review - Role Playing Games
The Shadows Of Yesterday is an indie game by Clinton R. Nixon. To get my personal bias out of the way, I own the other games Clinton publishes, and enjoy each. They're all fun games that target specific styles of play very well. So I expected the ... [... more]
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What Is LARP Anyway? - Role Playing Games
You may have heard the term mentioned before, or maybe not. It took me going to a major gaming convention before I heard about LARP. At that time, the term brought up images of people dressed up as vampires, because that was, then, the most ... [... more]
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RPG Campaign Software - Role Playing Games
RPG campaign software has come a long ways from the early days of character generators. The popularity of D & D; 3.5, with its more complicated rule set, spurred software developers to hide as much of the complexity as possible. Don't get me ... [... more]
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How To Create An RPG Campaign Web Site - Role Playing Games
More and more GMs are creating RPG campaign web sites for their home campaigns. It's great from the perspective of fellow GMs who want to get new ideas, or for players who want to point their GM toward new ideas. It's also a way to capture the ... [... more]
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Basic Fantasy RPG Review - Role Playing Games
I'm of that age range when Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was my first role playing game. The old 2nd edition boxed set was a Christmas present one year. I still have the old Dieties & Demigods book with the Cthulhu mythos deities included. Those ... [... more]
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