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Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 4, Creating your Campaign

March 28, 2008 – 6:45 am

This post is part of a series that revisits Robin Laws’ classic work on Gamemastering, called simply enough Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering.
I tackle each chapter in order. It’s not so much a review of the book but more my views on the subjects Robin touched then. If you [...]

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Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 3, Picking up your set of rules

February 21, 2008 – 8:34 pm

This post is part of a series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing, Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering and adds my thoughts on the same subject. This time, we tackle choosing a Rule set which is very actual since we’re at the butt end of D&D’s current edition.
Part [...]

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Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: You, Bastard!

January 28, 2008 – 9:50 pm

As promised, after having covered the Overlord trope in all (well at least some of) its RPG glory, I now want to tackle another of my favorite character tropes:
The Magnificent Bastard (I’m making no reference whatever to any good friend of mine, honest!)
Love him or hate him, there’s a certain type of character that [...]

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Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat…

January 24, 2008 – 3:33 pm

Sooooo, a few days ago Vanir puts up a post about what his Epic Level Heavy-Metal Bard called Bat Loaf did when he was riding the Tarrasque with his pals.
My brain broke down somewhere down the line but now that my memory matrix has been reconstructed, it seems that Bat Loaf got his metal S.O. [...]

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Robin’s Laws Revisited: Part 2, Player Types and Traits

January 23, 2008 – 9:14 pm

This post is part of a new series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing. This time I tackle the book’s fundamental subject of player types and what they seek in RPGs. Part one can be found here.

The second chapter of Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering brings up the subject that knowing [...]