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Old Guy Gaming - Realistic Coastlines Revisited
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Unsolicited ramblings of a veteran DM. Written by Mike Summers on January 6th, 2012. Two years ago, I wrote an article called “ Adding Realistic Coastlines to a Map. 8220; I was asked to re-post it. In the tutorial section at the Cartographer’s Guild where, shortly after doing so, it received an award. Since then, this article has been, by far, the most viewed post on this site. Given the interest it has received, I think it is high time I revisited this tutorial. Step 1 – Add Noise. Now we blur the imag...
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Reality Refracted: GenCon Day 3: Star Wars, Paizo, and Sol
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Rants, Ramblings, and Essays on Gaming and RPGs. Also on Game and Story Design. Sunday, August 2, 2015. GenCon Day 3: Star Wars, Paizo, and Sol. Day 3 is over, and all in all it was a much more sedate day. It was also the first time I ran a game at a con, and I felt it went well, especially considering I had no intentions for GMing at all this weekend. Booth and talked about The Strange and Numenerra. With a comatose racer pilot to get him past his manager/crew and into his race car. Good work diving in ...
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Reality Refracted: The Siege of Amimono no Toshi
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Rants, Ramblings, and Essays on Gaming and RPGs. Also on Game and Story Design. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. The Siege of Amimono no Toshi. This Friday, if my PCs get to it - and they probably will - we will begin the siege of Amimono no Toshi. For those wondering, the name translates to the City of Webs (literally woven things), and it is coming under siege of a large army of shadowlands forces. What Is A Siege? What Threats Does A Siege Present? Siege Level of Engagement. Breaking from the other levels ...
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Reality Refracted: A Diggy Dig Hole
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Rants, Ramblings, and Essays on Gaming and RPGs. Also on Game and Story Design. Monday, August 10, 2015. A Diggy Dig Hole. I recognize the original post for today is a bit on the short side, and so you guys get TWO short posts instead of one normal posts. So, fun news. I'm finally going to be able to run a D&D 5th ed game of a sort. Not a long game, but a game. How? Other options for random rolling I've found:. Roll 3D4, drop the lowest, and add 7. Roll 4d6 reroll the first 1 on each die, drop the lowest.
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Reality Refracted: GenCon Day 2: Lots of Gaming, and Some New Friends
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Rants, Ramblings, and Essays on Gaming and RPGs. Also on Game and Story Design. Friday, July 31, 2015. GenCon Day 2: Lots of Gaming, and Some New Friends. Day 2 of GenCon is over and all I really have to say about it is: Oh sweet, dear lord, MY FEET! Kidding.mostly. Aside from my legs being in a good deal of muscle fatigue due to my inadequate level of fitness and sudden high levels of demand, today was pretty fun, but also had a couple of negative notables. What kind of negative notables? As for the sec...
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Reality Refracted: Preparing for the End Game
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Rants, Ramblings, and Essays on Gaming and RPGs. Also on Game and Story Design. Monday, August 10, 2015. Preparing for the End Game. This Friday we officially begin "the end" of the current generation in my L5R game. Winter court has just begun, one of the PCs has been promoted to a Shireikan of the Legion - despite the character's young age, and an army of Fu Leng's beasts and creatures is coming to rip the city apart brick by brick and person by person. We'll see how it goes. August 10, 2015 at 3:28 AM.
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Reality Refracted: About
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Rants, Ramblings, and Essays on Gaming and RPGs. Also on Game and Story Design. Friday, January 15, 2010. Aside from the Table Top RPG aspect, there will also be regular posts about game design, story design, writing, and probably posts relating sociology to all of the above. I can be reached either via the e-mail link at the top of the page, or by e-mailing me at: delirium.end@realityrefracted.com (yep, I know they're different e-mail links. Both get checked at least once a day). Guest Writers (How To).
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Alternity Complex Skill Checks & 4e Skill Challenges | Buccaneers Guild
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Alternity Complex Skill Checks & 4e Skill Challenges. July 19, 2010. Preparing for today’s Alternity game and I came across something called. Whilst reading Wolfgang Baur’s Dataware book. Wolfgang outlines skill ladders, just a quick to write list of what each success or failure of a hacking attempt actually means. Here’s a quick example from my prep for today. Hacking bio tagged laser weapon. 1 Removed take down pin. 2 Gained access to internal ciruitry. 3 Bypassed authentication routines. I can’t...
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Death of a Player Character: Opportunity for Roleplaying | Dungeoneering Check™
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Death of a Player Character: Opportunity for Roleplaying. It happens to the best groups, but every now and then… PCs die. I tried not to let it happen, as I don’t think it was necessary for the story — but sometimes the story goes where it wants to and I don’t have a whole lot to say about it. Now, earlier in this blog, I talked about a specific incident where a DM used a. On a downed PC. This is a different situation. In my heart, I still think that the fabled. Long story short: He didn’t stabilize.
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An important Home Encounters update | 4e Home Encounters
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A community built site for at-home 4e Encounters play. About 4e Home Encounters. An important Home Encounters update. January 28, 2011. Home Encounters is at a crossroads. When we first launched this thing, we launched under the assumption that our. Project would be a two way street, a sort of living project that would. Benefit from your feedback, thoughts, and critiques (or praise). The goal. Was simple, give you an alternative to the official Wizards’ Encounters. Encounter 1.1 801 downloads. That in it...
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