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Sagas of the North

Chaosium and Drivethrurpg.com announce the Sagas of the North, a community created content for Age of Vikings RPG.  It is no secret that Age of Vikings is one of my favorite TTRPG at the moment. I am an avid fan of the Icelandic Sagas and tend to dig deep into games...

The Sutra of Pale Leaves: Carcosa Manifest – Review

The Sutra of Pale Leaves: Carcosa Manifest is a recent campaign for Call of Cthulhu, created by The Sons of Singularity. Here's our review. There is something quietly ambitious about The Sutra of Pale Leaves: Carcosa Manifest. It does not merely revisit the familiar...

Creating a Character for Daggerheart

Here are a few ideas and thoughts on how to get the most out of creating a character for Daggerheart RPG by Darrington Press.  One of my groups is about to finish a 2-year-long D&D campaign and has decided to use Daggerheart for our next game. As many veteran...

Running the Aranea Queen Campaign

The Aranea Queen Campaign is designed for a party of 4-6 1st-level PCs. It takes place in the Nether Mountains in the Silver Marches in the Forgotten Realms. The heroes should be at 10th level when the campaign ends.  When I wrote the Aranea Queen Campaign, my son and...

Riotminds: Wicked Dew

The Swedish Publisher Riotminds recently introduced a new Role-Playing game. Wicked Dew is a horror game set in Victorian England.  Wicked Dew is a twisted Victorian horror role-playing game, strange, unsettling, and unlike anything Riotminds has released before....
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Challenging encounters

Sometimes it can be hard to adjust encounters and make them a challenge for the player characters. What to do when the player characters have attained such power that they seem to be able to tackle whatever you throw at them? Here are a few ideas on how to make...

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Too linear?

Are there any modules that are either too linear or too sandboxy? Or is it all just a matter of presentation by the game master? Here are a few tips on becoming a better game master. Every now and then I hear and read game master lament and criticize modules for being...

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Becoming a professional Game Master

With D&D's rise in popularity and becoming more mainstream, the need for good game masters rises as well. Are we at the dawn of the professional game masters? What should we expect from such a professional? Roleplaying games have never been as popular as they are...

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Vaesen – A new horror rpg from Fria Ligan

Vaesen is a new horror roleplaying game by Fria Ligan, the publishers of Tales from the Loop, Forbidden Lands and Alien rpg, among other games, that is currently on Kickstarter. Fria Ligan's game have been well received.  In dark forests, beyond the mountains, by...