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MoonHunter
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Everything I Learned About Raising Children I Learned From Gaming By: MoonHunter
When my first born came into the world, my gaming life skidded to a halt. However, in a strange way, my gaming life continued. |
by MoonHunter
230xp
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MoonHunter
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The Crawl, Doing It the Cinematic Way By: MoonHunter
I am not a normal fantasy GM. If a player is delving through a dark tomb searching for loot in my campaign, he is probably on a fruitless quest. I dislike the dungeon crawl. I have since the earliest years of DnD. I mean where in Tolkein did they really crawl through a dungeon or other tomb/ place of mystery? |
by MoonHunter
170xp
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MoonHunter
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Gamer's Dictionary of Measurements By: MoonHunter
The world is full of different measurement systems. Some are old, some new, some obvious, some obscure. Each one is important enough to some group of people to be codified and passed down through the years. These are the ones that might be useful for gamers. |
by MoonHunter
280xp
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replies20247 views 2 HoHs |
Iain
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Systems of Measurement By: Iain
Systems of measurement might not sound like the most interesting of things, but they can be used to good effect in a role play campaign. There are three main ways I can think of: 1) Adding colour; 2) Culture shock and 3) Archaic systems. |
by Iain
245xp
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replies21015 views 3 HoHs |
Siren no Orakio
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Creeds By: Siren no Orakio
While we're talking about the subject of constructing religions, I'd like to bring up the concept of the Creed. The creed is nothing more than a simple statement of the religion's beliefs, meant to be recited. If you cannot write a creed for your monotheistic religion, it probably needs work on internal consistency. Creed examples: |
by Siren no Orakio
210xp
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replies8908 views 1 HoH |
MoonHunter
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Wild West - A Genre Untapped By: MoonHunter
Of all the published roleplaying games, we have a huge number of fantasy games, a good number of sci-fi games, a smattering of modern and modern variation games, but very few of anything else. The Western is an Epic Genre in the bookstore. There are shelves and shelves of them, nearly as many as the science fiction section (minus Star Trek and Star Wars books). You would think it would be popular. There are only a piddling number of western games, and none are very successful. |
by MoonHunter
170xp
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draco aardvark
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Why I don't want to modify Elves and Dwarves By: draco aardvark
My issue with modifying/removing dwarves and elves is that the PC's may want to play them. |
by draco aardvark
50xp
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MoonHunter
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Hey, Cool! An Ice Age. By: MoonHunter
Do you ever give ice ages a thought? |
by MoonHunter
85xp
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replies14995 views |
MoonHunter
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WWMWBI - If a New Form of Magic Occured By: MoonHunter
Yesterday, new magic appeared upon your world. What happens next. |
by MoonHunter
205xp
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replies8172 views 2 HoHs |
MoonHunter
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WWMWBI - If Magic as Your People Know It Stopped Working? By: MoonHunter
Magic should be just another form of technology, a means to do things. In most games, it is nothing more than another weapon. Others utilize it as a tool of everyday life. |
by MoonHunter
115xp
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replies7989 views |
Scrasamax
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WWMWBI - Genuine Anagathics Were Available By: Scrasamax
The desire for immortality is a common one, given our innate fear of death. We share the same desire for immortality of our characters. Potions of immortality are often fakes, while spells of unending life invariably turn the caster into a vampire, or a liche or some other evil creature. |
by Scrasamax
90xp
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Kinslayer
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WWMWBI - Invaders on The Shore By: Kinslayer
... some invaders come full-force, and are a previous unknown to the current inhabitants. Either way, the world will change. |
by Kinslayer
110xp
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replies5669 views |
MoonHunter
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WWMWBI - Grain Went Away By: MoonHunter
Imagine a blight that killed off the grasses and grains. This is not an unheard off event. Mutant spores, molds, and diseases have killed off a wide variety, even who classes, of plants in the real world. Something that kills off grasses, sounds like science fiction (and the premise has been used in many 'end of the world' movies and stories), but it is very applicable to a fantasy world... especially because they are mostly agrarian. |
by MoonHunter
105xp
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replies6175 views |
MoonHunter
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WWMWBI - Someone Invented a Printing Press By: MoonHunter
'Mass Produced Books' was one of the most important shift points in history. This one invention profoundly effected all aspects of life, not only locally, but eventually the entire world. |
by MoonHunter
140xp
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replies10428 views 1 HoH |
MoonHunter
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Master WWMWBI ... or what would my world be if By: MoonHunter
What would my world be if.... This is a question that many GMs should ask. It will help them flesh out their world. This is a series of articles to expand upon the idea. |
by MoonHunter
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MoonHunter
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Winter is a Character By: MoonHunter
The weather is something that everyone always notices and talks about, but can't do anything about. It is an important part of everyone's life, yet it seems to be ignored in games. And everything important in a game is best thought of as a character of some sort. |
by MoonHunter
545xp
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replies13376 views 7 HoHs |
ephemeralstability
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Inventing Languages By: ephemeralstability
Language is an essential part of any culture. Culture wouldn't exist without some form of communication, and humans communicate by speaking. But the connection is deeper even than that. The language helps to define the culture which uses it, and is in turn affected by that culture. This dynamic process is what keeps a language 'alive': Latin is a dead language because the culture to which it belonged no longer exists. |
by ephemeralstability
290xp
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MoonHunter
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Running a Game, the MoonHunter way By: MoonHunter
Running a Game, the MoonHunter way. It is pretty bare bones, but it is pretty self explanatory. |
by MoonHunter
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MoonHunter
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Starting a Campaign the MoonHunter way. By: MoonHunter
Starting a Campaign the MoonHunter way, what more is there to say? |
by MoonHunter
190xp
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MoonHunter
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Lights, Camera, Action By: MoonHunter
What makes great entertainment for Gamers? Movies. They love action movies, even if their favorite pastime is reading books, writing websites, learning ancient languages, or gaming like madmen. If you pattern your games and campaigns after movies, you are sure to have an entertaining game. |
by MoonHunter
240xp
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replies8315 views 2 HoHs |