Investigating Damn Fine Pi [Review]

Damn Fine Pi is a 6-page PDF by Uncle Bear offered for $2.00.

Damn Fine Pi is a café located near a university, complete with staff and patrons, designed to be customized to your needs and dropped into any setting or genre. There are no system-specific crunchy bits and many details have been left open for [...]

Free PDF: Ye Olde Shoppe [Review]

Published by M. C. Planck for the World of Prime, Ye Olde Shoppe is a free PDF available at DrivethruRPG.com.

A universal shopping guide for D20 Fantasy games. All the stuff your characters need to buy in one place, and more stuff besides.

It has tables and tables of things including the usual weapons, armor and general [...]

One Page Dungeon: There Are No Tails in Zamboanga [Review]

A Blurb
ChattyDM and Chgowiz ran a contest featuring the One Page Dungeon layout. If you have not downloaded these files, then go do it now! There is, bar none, no resource on the internet you’re going to enjoy as much.
The Game
In a sandbox game, you present options to players and let them choose what road [...]

One Page Dungeon: Traps ‘R Us [Review]

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A Blurb
ChattyDM and Chgowiz ran a contest featuring the One Page Dungeon layout. If you have not downloaded these files, then go do it now! There is, bar none, no resource on the internet you’re going to enjoy as much.
The Game
The party expressed interest in a) tracking down some [...]

Converting 4E Skill Challenges [Review]

Skill challenges from 4th Edition are becoming more common online as people become more confident with the system. But our group doesn’t use 4E. We don’t even use any version of d20 having moved to a system without classes or levels. So converting from 4E is a challenge in itself.
In this case I started with [...]

One Page Dungeon Review: Cemetery Hill

A Blurb
ChattyDM and Chgowiz ran a contest featuring the One Page Dungeon layout. If you have not downloaded these files, then go do it now! There is, bar none, no resource on the internet you’re going to enjoy as much.
The Game
After our introductory run through Secrets of the Old City, the players were above ground [...]

One Page Dungeon Review: Secrets of the Old City

A Blurb
ChattyDM and Chgowiz ran a contest featuring the One Page Dungeon layout. If you have not downloaded these files, then go do it now! There is, bar none, no resource on the internet you’re going to enjoy as much.
The Game
My players recently requested I run again. Things had gone on hiatus due to moving [...]

Review: Pyramid Magazine by SJG

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At one time, Steve Jackson Games published an online ‘zine, Pyramid. The subscription model was $20/year for 3-4 articles a week accessible via html pages. Recently, they changed it to a PDF released once a month at $7.99 each. There are several subscription models where buying more issues reduces the price (12 months [...]

Gamefinder by Steve Jackson Games

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Not long ago someone posted a link to an interview from a WotC exec. I don’t remember who or I’d give credit, sorry! If you posted a link to such an interview on a forum, comment and let me know so I can attribute this correctly.
Anyhow, to get on with it.
Part of the [...]

Review: Elona (Eternal League of Nefia)

Gamers, especially GMs, need to decompress, too. Gaming can start feeling like a job, getting into something mindless for 15-20 minutes at a time can really help. While big games like World of Warcraft or Mass Effect are a lot of fun, sometimes we just need to look at something besides words on a screen [...]