Bard of Valiant

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Time to hit the meme before I leave for SERE this evening. And wow, has this post dragged up some memories of my early gaming years. There are only 6 – 3 I love, 3 I hate.
Love Dragons
I used to catch snakes as a kid so reptiles have always fascinated [...]

Your company for the best in dungeon fabrication, the Valiant Dungeon Construction Syndicate introduces the best in evil lairs for the true villain in you! [Click on images for full-size versions. Images can be expanded to 200% of their size without serious loss of pixel resolution.]
The Akephat is located on a mysterious island surrounded by [...]

What this Is:  A post about using online tools to write a unique adventure in very little time. It includes a list of online tools, about how long it should take, instructions, an example of things I grabbed and a link to the adventure itself on Project Valiant.

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I’m doing something a little different this time. None of these excerpts are from blogs by gamers. Not one. Ideas can come from interesting places.
ISO Quality Planning, a company specializing in helping insurance companies identify risk, has compiled a list of the most heavily ticketed vehicles on the road, and lead feet everywhere can check [...]

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In this series I discussed how to create a workable Alchemy system for any game system.

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2:  Making 3-5 custom monsters
Part 3: Creating Recipes
Part 4: Keeping track of the details easily and efficiently

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On the West End Games Fan Forums, the Game Guy asked us all how much is too much for a core book. The answers sparked some debate and now I’m curious, how much WILL people pay?
This poll assumes you enjoy and would like to own the material in the document. A core book is like [...]

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed how easy it can be to create a workable Alchemy system for any game with the right tools. In Part 2, I talked about creating the items you’re going to need in the game to make the system work by making 3-5 custom monsters for your system. [...]

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West End Games closed their company forums in favor of a fan-run set here. West End Games is best known for D6 Star Wars, a game that is still popular even though WEG lost the license some years ago. I’d go so far as to say [...]

Your company for the best in dungeon fabrication, the Valiant Dungeon Construction Syndicate introduces the best in evil lairs for the true villain in you! [Click on images for full-size versions. Images can be expanded to 200% of their size without serious loss of pixel resolution.]
Our first offering this millennium is the Igothotharam is located [...]

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Creating Ingredients
Now that we have 15 or so items with some economic use, we need to decide what to do with them. If the item is something like the hide of a beast which can be made into things, a little online research can give you a “recipe” for creating hide [...]