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Random Thoughts Table: Adaptation Blues, Deaths and Grappling

September 27, 2007 – 7:47 am

Image Source: Necromancer games’ Mother of all Encounter Tables.
It’s Thursday and as I’ve seen a surge in reading on that day, what better time to serve a post of mini-musings? I’m playing tomorrow and I’m taking the evening off from prepping and blogging to recharge my mental batteries before the game. But as I get [...]

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Let’s sweeten all that Crunch with some Sweet20

September 26, 2007 – 5:44 pm

Image Source: Chatty DM’s game room

It’s no secret, since the seventies, D&D has arguably been mostly about two things:

Kill Stuff
Take their loot

A lot of people were content with that (and still are). I have been for a long time. However, as I played D&D 3.0, and later 3.5, I realized that [...]

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Dive in this bowl of Crunchy Hit points

September 25, 2007 – 8:05 pm

Image Source: Do I really need to? I’m prepping this week’s game tonight so I’ll keep the post a bit on the short side.
Greywulf commented on this post earlier today* and shared his most excellent tricks to save time in RPG combats (dude, I’m like Keanu now, whoa!)
One of his tricks [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG nuggets: Let them see the light.

September 24, 2007 – 7:30 pm

Image Source: D&D 3.5 Monster Manual
This is part of a series of articles that tackles the concepts of tropes and how they can be applied by a DM/GM to improve their favorite Role-Playing game adventures. It is heavily inspired by the sheer goodness of the TV Tropes Wiki.
“I’m sorry, you’ve never faced a troll before, [...]

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The craziest, shortest, game I ever wrote/ran.

September 23, 2007 – 9:20 pm

Image Source: Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
Martin over at Treasure Tables had a recent post asking DMs what were ideal gaming sessions and the shortest ones we’re comfortable running (Quick Answer, 4 hours, 2 hours).
That made me think of the shortest, craziest one-shot game I ever [...]

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