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Exploring the Lost Cities of Geo | The Rat and Dragon
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The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. Exploring the Lost Cities of Geo. Asymp; Leave a comment. Is something that I thought I’d never see again. It’s my first website. Like many people back in the late 1990s, I decided that the world needed to hear my opinions and sample my creative work. Back then, kids, we didn’t have this fancy. To give myself a little credit, I never had red lettering on a chartreuse background. Nor did I use flashing text. There are limits even to my poor judgement. That ...
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I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want… | The Rat and Dragon
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The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want…. Asymp; Leave a comment. I realize that the most frightening words a person can say are “We’re getting the band back together.”. Okay, having acknowledged that, I want to start roleplaying again. And I would like to welcome back some of the people I played with back in the 20th Century. One was a long-running Call. Based campaign based on the old “Pirates of Volturnus” adventure from. Rules It seems li...
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The Contract between GM and Players: Peace Not War | The Rat and Dragon
https://ratanddragon.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/the-contract-between-gm-and-players-peace-not-war
The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. The Contract between GM and Players: Peace Not War. Asymp; Leave a comment. Or: Don’t be a Player Hater. Your prep work was a waste of time. The truth is, you are probably not having fun either; you’re just too busy running your game to notice. So what I recommend and there are plenty of books and articles on the subject is that you work out some kind of agreement with your players about how you meaning you and the players will be running the game. The key...
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Russell Becomes a Traveller | The Rat and Dragon
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The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. Russell Becomes a Traveller. Asymp; 3 Comments. Ludophilis: I have earlier described the almost magical impact that the original LBB version of the Dungeons and Dragons Game had when I first laid eyes upon it. Just a few years later it all seems about the same time, and looking back from the age of 55 at my teen self, I realize it was I was browsing at. And there was another boxed set of little books very much the same size and format as the. Let’s sip ahe...
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politeobserver | The Rat and Dragon
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The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want…. Asymp; Leave a comment. I realize that the most frightening words a person can say are “We’re getting the band back together.”. Okay, having acknowledged that, I want to start roleplaying again. And I would like to welcome back some of the people I played with back in the 20th Century. One was a long-running Call. Based campaign based on the old “Pirates of Volturnus” adventure from. Rules It seems li...
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Awesomeness and the GM’s Contract with the Players | The Rat and Dragon
https://ratanddragon.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/awesomeness-and-the-gms-contract-with-the-players
The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. Awesomeness and the GM’s Contract with the Players. Asymp; Leave a comment. From our Wouldn’t It Be Nice Department). What is the thing almost all roleplayers want? You know. A huge slice of awesome. Pie, with awesome sauce. And a scoop of awesome ice cream ala mode. Because they feel cheated out of their share of awesomeness, and usually but not always by the GM. In the example above, the first player wanted to battle his way through hordes of foes, unsto...
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Putting it All Together 2: More Thinking (or, I Smell Peanuts Roasting) | The Rat and Dragon
https://ratanddragon.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/putting-it-all-together-2-more-thinking-or-i-smell-peanuts-roasting
The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. Putting it All Together 2: More Thinking (or, I Smell Peanuts Roasting). Asymp; Leave a comment. Hello again, Ludophilus! Where We Left Off Last Time. In the last post which, I want the reader to notice, was not. Detailed combat with hit locations and specific damage, not just point erosion. Dramatic, swashbuckling combat. Firearms of limited power–black powder or some equivalent. Swordplay would still be a very important skill. Thinking About A Game System.
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Special Effects 2 | The Rat and Dragon
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The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. Asymp; Leave a comment. A while back I wrote about. These special effects can be done on several levels. The game rules system should be one that includes mechanics that make such pseudo-experiences meaningful, or at least doesn’t make them dry, abstracted, or unlike the genre conventions. The Game Master is the ultimate special effect. He or she should run the game so that the adventures and the emotional payoffs are in keeping with the genre. I’ll ...
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Starting to Put It Together: What I Like | The Rat and Dragon
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The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. Starting to Put It Together: What I Like. Asymp; Leave a comment. Decide who will be in the gaming group. Determine what those players will think is cool. Put together a game that will give them that. Does this sound entirely too obvious? Believe me, I often did this in many other ways, including:. Decide what I think is cool. Grab a game system that I like and preferably already own. Get players more or less as they come up. Decide what I think is cool.
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It’s all just…Special Effects | The Rat and Dragon
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The Rat and Dragon. RPGs, Erom, and Other Tales. It’s all just…Special Effects. Asymp; Leave a comment. It’s all just special effects. Of course, this doesn’t work for everyone. A lady I know said she liked. But she did not like the first. Movie because it was too unrealistic. Another said the film. Was good but somewhat fictionalized. I did not have a response to either comment. The writer Steven Brust. I have a few. I would really love to have my character hold off a horde of baddies at a bridge or...