Showing posts with label NPC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPC. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Vampire sandbox

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I listened to a podcast that discussed the first scenario for Vampire, in the back of the 2nd ed rulebook. I remember when Vampire was the h...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Getting the full impact of the story of a game

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I just finished reading Permanence , by Karl Schroeder, today. For those of you who don't know, it's a outer space science fiction s...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Forgotten Realms Personalities - what levels are they again?

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Everyone knows about Elminster, right? Lot of people have also heard of some dark skinned elf with some feline companion from some kind of n...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Old School Forgotten Realms

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I have been reading the grey box Forgotten Realms lately. Yesterday I also took out the first supplement, Waterdeep. Apart from some very in...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Gamemastering Call of Cthullhu - pacing

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Today I was once again behind the screen as Keeper of Arcane Lore. I'm collecting experience, and this was my sixth time as a Keeper! Wh...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Old Traveller adventures - the emptiness of space

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I recently bought the Mongoose edition of Traveller, as you might remember me mentioning before. It is a good game, and a fun read. Now I ha...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Now, what do they want?

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I have been thinking more about different kinds of adventures. I realized that I have played quite a few games, for example Beyond the Mount...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Styles of adventures - weird fantasy style, and others

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There lot of different kinds of adventures you can design, and play. I think not all of them have been analyzed or talked about as much as t...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

The point of NPCs, and styles of play

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This morning I met an old friend whom I used to game with. We chatted a bit about life, work and family before delving deep into our gaming ...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Dungeons in new games

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Zak wrote something interesting about dungeons the other day. He notes that newer RPG are often a bit more cinematic and also they usually ...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Rough and Ready - an angry young man

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I heard a song by what used to be my first metal favourites, Saxon , and this prompted me to invent this NPC. Stats for Tunnels & Trolls...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Sherlock Holmes, dungeon delver III

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imagine standard spoiler disclaimer here My last impressions of the Sherlock Holmes movie are concerning the main antagonists. If you have...
Friday, December 4, 2009

Gaming family

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Tonight we manged to play a session in a campaign started by a friend of mine when I was still living in Canada. He had told me I was welcom...