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• I hit AC 16 and do 11 damage…

  
  TheLemming — Authority: 103
  …or – howto improve your combat experience It’s probably 15 years ago, when we played a lot of games after school and on weekends. Back then we were pretty inexperienced and it was a different – drive. When I was younger, I think most of us were powermongers in one or more ways. Mostly it was great to beat ...
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• [Fantasy Craft] Class Act: The Keeper

  
  Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer — Authority: 115
  It has once been said that knowing is half the battle ( and the rest of it are Red lasers and Blue lasers ).  Ask a Keeper and they might tell you that knowing is the battle.  Keepers are another Specialist class, one that focuses on mastery of knowledge in the form of skills.  Even the Explorer can’t keep up ...
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• The Ruins of New York: Jason Freewalker

  
  Nuketown — Authority: 122
  Jason Freewalker is a second-generation lawman, his father having become a Texas Ranger just after Serpentfall. In the early days after Serpentfall, he rode with his father, battling scaly monsters crawled out of the Rio Grande to drink the blood of children and the Serpent cults arose from the Gulf looking to spawn ...
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• The Ruins of New York: Ollivander Ellis

  
  Nuketown — Authority: 122
  In another life, Ollivander Ellis might have been a physicist or astronomer, but instead he grew up in the world of the Serpentfall. It’s lead him to dedicate his life to understanding its arcane secrets ... and fighting them when they’re unleashed upon the world. He’s battled latter-day Nazi mystics in ...
  4 days ago

• The Ruins of New York: Coromir

  
  Nuketown — Authority: 122
  Coromir is a modern barbarian. Born outside of Pittsburgh, as a teenager his family was slaughtered by the Black River Cult. He barely escaped the culling, and spent the next few years living on his own in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania. He swore an oath to avenge his family’s death, and when he was 19, he ...
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• RPG Stats: Turning Disadvantages into Advantages

  
  Robertson Games — Authority: 99
  We’ve previously discussed using the more streamlined attribute system from classic D&D and Swords & Wizardry and how the lower bonuses and penalties to dice rolls can both streamline the game and encourage more character description . That was followed with a system to allow players to select a ...
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• The Ruins of New York: Jules Drake from Role-Playing Games

  
  RPG Bloggers — Authority: 166
  Jules Drake is the epitome of the dashing rocketeer; brave to the point of reckless, utterly loyal to the cause and his cohorts and unwilling to back down in the face of danger. Hes been extraordinarily successful in his endeavors, fighting for king and country and doing his part to ensure that... [...]
  5 days ago

• The Ruins of New York: Andrea Boundless from Role-Playing Games

  
  RPG Bloggers — Authority: 166
  The Boundless family have long been adventurers, scouring the earth for new challenges, and using the knowledge and treasure they looted to found a dynasty. That dynasty was nearly ended when the Serpent fell, crushing London, but fortunately Andreas father, Richard Boundless, was abroad in India... [...]
  5 days ago

• Recent developments

  
  TheLemming — Authority: 103
  It’s been a while since the last update of this blog. I guess it was more like a vacation from writing and focussing on other things. When blogging became more of a necessity than actual fun, I thought it was a good time to make a full-stop. With my sundaily gaming group things are going quite well. Quite well? ...
  5 days ago

• The Week After Ragnarok

  
  Nuketown — Authority: 122
  When I heard about Ken Hites The Day After Ragnarok (a postapocolyptic Savage Worlds camaign setting in which the Nazis awoke the Midgard serpent ... and America killed it with an atomic bomb), I had to buy it. And I had to find an excuse to run it. To that end Ill be debuting my scenario "The Ruins of New York" ...
  6 days ago

• The Ruins of New York: Playtest Notes

  
  Nuketown — Authority: 122
  "The Ruins of New York" is a 4-hour one-shot adventure written for Ken Hites The Day After Ragnarok , a Savage Worlds campaign setting published by Atomic Overmind Press . Ill be running this event at MEPACon Fall 2009 , and since its been a while since I ran Savage Worlds , I decided to do a playtest with my ...
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• [Fantasy Craft] Class Act: The Captain from Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer

  
  RPG Bloggers — Authority: 166
  Today’s Class Act brings us to the Captain:Among all the Classes in Fantasy Craft, the Captain is the one character that exists to be obeyed.  That said, the Captain is also one of the classes that exists for the purpose of being with a team.  As the old saying goes, a leader is nothing... [...]
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• IMPROVE YOUR ROLEPLAYING WITH BETTER D…D CHARACTER BACKGROUND SKILLS

  
  Cheap Flight Auctions — Authority: 154
  A great approach to enhance your roleplaying abilities in Dungeons … Dragons, or any alternative roleplaying game, is to try and have improved characters. Developing a credentials and celebrity for your impression will give you a improved guideline on how to fool around your impression and it will additionally give ...
  6 days ago

• [Fantasy Craft] Class Act: The Burglar

  
  Life and Times of a Philippine Gamer — Authority: 115
  Today we take a look at the Burglar Class. Lockpick by Inkthinker (Ben McSweeny), click to see his DeviantArt! Unlike the Assassin , which conducts its business by being another face in the crowd, the aptly named Burglar Class is doing its job right when you don’t see a face at all.  The Burglar is ...
  1 week ago

• Dins Curse - Screenshots Now Up

  
  Tales of the Rampant Coyote — Authority: 425
  For those following Soldaks new indie role-playing game: Dins Curse - First Screenshots Yeah, it does look a bit like Depths of Peril and Kivis Underworld . Are you at all surprised? Im excited about this one, personally. It sounds like its got more Depths of Peril-ish-ness to it. Did you enjoy this ...
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• Review: “Kobold Quarterly #11″

  
  Critical Hits — Authority: 421
  There’s a reason every review I see of the Kobold Quarterly magazine compares it to the Dragon and Dungeon print magazines from years passed, even opening a PDF of the book and seeing the cover makes me immediately think of seeing those issues in my local book store.  The comparison goes well beyond the ...
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• Star Wars Round Up: Dawn of Defiance Ends, Galaxy at War Minis, Joruus Cbaoth

  
  Nuketown — Authority: 122
  After two years, Wizards of the Coasts Dawn of the Defiance RPGA campaign has concluded with Episode #10: Jaws of the Sarlacc. In this weeks Star Wars roundup Ive got a link to the module as well as Rodney Thompsons retrospective on the campaign. In other news, theres Galaxy at War miniatures previews, a new Jedi ...
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• OgreCave review – Cortex System

  
  OgreCave — Authority: 113
  While some of the Cave dwellers were busy reviewing fearsome games, Andy was kind enough to take a look at a general RPG system (which could undoubtedly be used for some horror roleplaying). The result is his review of The Cortex System RPG by Margaret Weis Productions. Does your game arsenal need Cortex to be ...
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• The 10 Best Pen and Paper RPG Games Ever

  
  World News — Authority: 461
  Here is a list of the ten best pen and paper roleplaying games of all-time. Although there is no scientific way to prove the best RPG games ever, this list takes into account the overall popularity of pen and paper roleplaying games since the industry was first created.
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