Bard of Valiant

This week I have some elements that would make a Victorian Gothic game and even has good modern supernatural possibilities.
First you need a setting. This post about a 1934 article in the LA Time is a perfect springboard. The article details an ancient city under LA that has tunnel mazes, Hopi secrets and lost treasure! [...]

Don’t invite new people to the game without asking anyone else and then tell the game master the hosts invited them.
Believe it or not, this happened to us last week.
Phil needed to catch a ride home from work and called a friend for a pick-up. On the way back, the friend (whom I’ll call “George”), [...]

Game Master’s everywhere fiddle things. We are always changing whatever hits our hot little hands and I wanted some good advice on how other GMs did this so I ran this contest!
Congratulations to Aaron Broder of AllGeektOut on his winning entry!
It was a hard choice between this and an entry by Zachary Houghton of RPG [...]

No log with pics yet; still catching up on that. i’ll work hard on getting farther on those this week.
It was a fun game, though. They started on a mountain in the Underworld and had to face the challenges the gods put in front of them.

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This guest post is written by Lord Oz in response to my post Classes and Levels Suck. Lord Oz is a fellow Steven Brust fan from Indianapolis, IN. today he writes about how to take level mechanics out of 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons.

Not too long ago, my players and I all felt constrained by [...]

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Heart of an Evil GM

Life in space might be a utopia or a dirty, nasty  existence. Take a look at these for some ideas:

Baby-Making is Tougher in Space As humanity expands its sphere of influence, immigration from Earth and other colonized planets might be the real impetus. If giving birth in space is difficult, if not impossible, think about [...]

I was recently chatting with SlatzG on Twitter the other day about gaming systems that use classes and levels (most of them) and I have to come out and say it:
Classes and Levels Suck.
They’re excellent for new gamers. Classes and levels give you a built-in system for judging balance issues that can be invaluable if [...]

Pics for this game
Cemetery Hill
The tunnel the characters faced opened into cobwebs and darkness.
At this point, a  thief attacked from the ceiling (no one ever looks up). The party believed this to be the one left and that the interrogation from earlier had worked. They never saw the second thief escaping from another ceiling they’d [...]