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13th Age Combat and Running the Game
One of my mates asked me a couple of days back if I truly liked 13th Age and I replied to him that would depend on what I found in the "Running the Game chapter. To a smaller degree I wanted to look...
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Pathfinder Rival: Ashlub The Locatah Champion
Ashlub fights for his clan and community, granting no mercy in the middle of battleImage by Noë Monin under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivative Works 3.0 LicenceThe Matriarch...
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Running Sheets - Something new I have been trying
In the past year or so I have been increasingly introducing a "running sheet" into my game. A running sheet is a concept that was probably initialised in an industry somewhere and is a list of...
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Syvet gets Reincarnated
The new Syvet?Image by "The Wonderificient" under a Creative Commons Attribution, No Derivative Works 3.0 LicenceA couple of Reign of Winter game nights ago our new player who plays a witch came across...
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Skull and Shackles - Death of a Thousand Cuts 2nd Week in a Row
Last Tuesday night in my in person game the crew of the Blackheart were reunited with their little Mwangi Halfling Captain Lem for the first time in a couple of games as +Cam Mcloughlin decided to...
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13th Age: Monsters, Maps and Magic Items
Well, I am very close to the end of the main rulebook and my itchy mouse finger is considering a PDF copy of 13 True Ways, just so I can prolong the pleasure of this find. I have over the past week...
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Starts a little after 8 PM Australian Eastern Standard Time. Come join us.
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13th Age: Module and Appendices
Well, I am sad to say that I have reached the end point of this book. That is a huge thing to say right there because I am literally sad that I do not have more of this book to read. It is so well...
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So D&D 5E is out...
My stream has come alive with un-boxings of the starter game, excited people, kids playing with new dicenand people talking about various parts of the new system. But my stream has also come alive...
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Review of Tabletop Simulator
I was handed a key to a product on Steam called Tabletop Simulator yesterday and it looks pretty snazzy so I thought I would have a look at the tool and make myself a little one shot dungeon to play...
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Sometimes Preparation Just Needs to be Thrown out the Window
I have run three games this week and with it a lot of preparation has been involved. For the two Pathfinder Adventure Path's that I run specifically there was a lot involved. The Traveller game I ran...
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Classic Traveller: Alien Invasion Game 2 The Missing Episode
For those of you that watch my Traveller game I have to offer an apology as the on-line hangout did not give me the option to record this week. It did its preparation stuff but hung on 99% and never...
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Pathfinder Encounters : And in the Depths... (CR 9)
Map: Aboleth should be in the pool, Thane a little way away and the Formless Ones Lurking :)"I barely escaped with my life I tell you. Sturm had told me that the ancient idol of the serpent god...
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Pathfinder Encounters : Set in Stone (CR 10)
The abandoned building. The basilisks should all start in the central building."Did I tell you the time that your mother and I escaped certain death? Adventuring is a risky business son and it has...
View ArticleReign of Winter: The Frozen Stars Game 4
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Pathfinder Encounter : What is that itch? (CR 3)
A Mage Tower sewer complete with light spells :)"No lad, you have it all wrong. Not everything is out to kill you when you are an adventure. Sometimes they just want to steal from you or maim you so...
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Online Conventions and My Views
I really like the idea of online conventions. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that living in Tasmania there are no conventions. In fact, believe it or not, I have NEVER attended an RPG...
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The Basics: House Rules: Why, When, How?
Play a game long enough and you will find a rule or two that confuses or complicates your game in a way that you had not expected when you decided on the game. There is an answer to this of course and...
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The Basics: Game Balance
Game balance is a term that is bandied about all sorts of gaming industries, not just the RPG industry. It is used in the board game industry, the video game industry and in fact most game industries...
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Pathfinder and Flying Rules
In my Reign of Winter adventure path game we have recently moved onto the fourth module for the game called "The Frozen Stars". In this module the players travel to the planet of Triaxius, home to the...
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Matt Jackson and the Great Map Challenge
So, here is a thing that I found when I arrived at work this morning. +matt jackson the map making military man from the USA had created a map. Nothing unusual apart from the fact that he had...
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Pathfinder Encounters: In Honour of Monty Python CR 7
The bridge across the chasm...He is out there lass. Standing on that bridge day and night, rain, hail, snow, sun. The Black Knight. "None Shall Pass!" he states in a deep voice, and to date, none...
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What Should You Include in a Running Sheet
A couple of weeks ago I talked about something that I have recently started to use, a running sheet if you will. The idea is designed to help me run the game a little smoother and to make sure that I...
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The Pathfinder Chronicles is Closing Down...
While the title of this is true it does not mean that I am leaving the blogging world. Instead I am simply moving to my own space. I have a plan to continue the growth of my blog and for it to be a...
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