For my Fate RPG campaign Brewed Awakening the most recent story arc ended with a big fight scene in a junkyard. This is a writeup of how I ran it. The Cast Involved The heroes: James, Alcholic Alchemist Wizard Apprentice Reba, Accidental Voodoo Student Becca, Psychic Honor Roll Student Markos, Greek Geek Artificer The bad …
For the past eight years I’ve been running a wiki that hosts information about all the RPG games that I’ve played and run. Say what you will about being OCD, but being able to go back and reference those notes is handy and allows me to wax nostalgic from time-to-time. My players understand that part …
So this weekend I was the best man for my friend Eric’s wedding. At the rehearsal dinner, Sean Patrick Fannon was lamenting that he never gets to play (he always GMs) and that he has never played Fate. So I decided to run an ad hoc FAE game because I love improv games. During dinner …
As I mentioned in a previous post my brain is stuck on creating new fantasy races for RPGs by using real-world creatures as inspiration. Today’s inspiration is the Gerenuk. Some of the highlights that catch my imagination: Herd animal Runs very fast The long neck is pretty ridiculous looking Renown as a humble creature. From …
On a lark, I was listening to the GM Intrusions Podcast #13 where the host and guest @DarcyLRoss get lost talking about creatures that have extreme adaptations, like snails that survive inside super hot thermal vents. I’m going to refer to these creatures as extreme cryptids. My brain is firing all the time and after …
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In tabletop RPGs the order in which the players and their opponents go is critical. This order can literally mean the difference between life and death. This is why Improved Initiative is so important for wizards in d20 games. What I’m about to share is my method on how I handle initiative in my story-based …
Continuing my series of posts on how I handle different types of magic in my Fate RPG campaign Brewed Awakening, I now turn my eye on Martial Magic. Not familiar with the Fate RPG? Read the full rules here. The Martial Magician The martial magician is one who expresses magic through strength, reflexes, and other …
What Prompted This Article? If you haven’t heard by now, there is a security flaw on more than 500,000 Web sites that could cause you—yes, you—a whole lot of trouble. This flaw is called the Heartbleed bug. To summarize, it is a flaw that makes a secure connection between you and a Web site not …
I got another speeding ticket a few weeks ago, my second one this year. This one added to my collection, making Ohio the fourth state that I’ve gotten a ticket in. The others are Pennsylvania (my first ticket, as a teen), West Virgnia, and Indiana (the other one this year). Obviously, I like to go …
I’m a compulsive note taker and organizer and this spills over into my life as a Gamemaster (GM). I just finished updating some of the notes that I have on my current game, Brewed Awakening, and I thought that I would post an image of what the looks like here. Maybe in a future article …
