As circuses move from place to place, they can make a great framework for long campaigns that use episodes. The party could comprise characters from the cast and crew. The owner or ringleader would be best as left as an
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Not With a Bang, but With Portents of Dice
This month’s RPG blog carnival, as hosted by Rising Phoenix Games, is about adventures in which the known world is at stake. The nigh has ended and should the characters fail then they and the whole world will suffer. If
Three Long Lost Cultures
The universe is a large and very varied place. There will always be locations and cultures that become isolated from the rest of civilisation. Over time, these places will become increasingly strange and different as they diverge from the norm.
Reviewing Rewind: Temporal Tales
Rewind: Temporal Tales is a sole or single player narrative RPG by Todd Zircher. It’s available for pay want you want at http://drivethrurpg.com/product/180407/Rewind-Temporal-Tales. Content The book is the framework and toolkit you need to play the game. Rather than just
The Lost Adventuring Gear of Lady Sophietta
Complete and combined sets of armour are well known. Much less well known is the set of magic items that the bard queen Sophietta collected during her days as a thrill seeking adventurer. Sophietta became famous for her matching red
Whether the Weather in RPGs
This month’s rpg blog carnival is about ways to use weather in RPGs and what role it can play in the narrative. The intro post is here -> Mortaine’s Blog Weather As Plot The weather forms part of the reasoning
Currency Dragon
Cunning and obsessed with wealth, the elder dragon Ambylen became determined to defeat even death. She attacked libraries and mage colleges in pursuit of necromancy. From her captured tomes Ambylen learnt how to syphon the souls of powerful mortals to
Malandros – A Review of Roleplay in Old Rio
Malandros is a narrative roleplaying games that focuses on intraplayer conflict. The latest game from Tom McGrenery of Porcupine Publishing that KickStarted successfully November 20th 2015 Conteúdo The setting is a neighbourhood in Rio de Janiro at the cusp of
Magical Creature Animal Sanctuary
Not all adventurers are hunters of magical creatures. Not all magical creatures attack you randomly if you encounter them. There are adventurers who care about wildlife beyond the rewards of killing it. The Compassionate Society of Farnsharp set up the
Accessible Games
Accessibility can mean many things. In the post by Accessible Games announcing this month’s RPG Blog Carnival theme, Jacob Wood encourages us to think about what accessibility is. In particular, he gives the prompt, “What does accessibility mean to me?”
5 Unusual Places to Find Eldritch Horrors
There are so many unknowable eldritch horrors, not all of them get to use a museum or ruined mansion for their schemes. To avoid the waiting list, other potential properties are available. Toy Shop L’ondeki has a fondness for children.
5 Simple Ways to Inspire Your Tabletop Roleplayers
Roleplaying is a group activity and only when every member of a group is firing on all cylinders will the game really fly. But how do you do it? How can you inspire tabletop gamers to put their heart &