Why do we care about some games and not others? What Does Caring Mean? Simple answer: Investment The death of a loved one makes us sad because we have invested grey matter in that person. Our brains develop neurons dedicated
Category: RPG Pen & Paper
Why Stories In RPGs Are Important
The Brain Is A Story Teller Stories are literally how we make sense of the world and not just through the obvious mechanisms of metaphor and fable. To the brain there is no difference between the story of why a
Stories & RPGs: Fun Disclaimer
Stories & RPGs is part of the blog about exactly that – stories and tabletop games. It is not about story games versus traditional / OSR dungeon type games though there will be lots on how some types of games
Age of Legends Gets Reviewed
Out thanks go to William Altman who’s reviewed Age of Legends despite their busy schedule with the peace corps in Georgia. You can find the review at Krendel.net, where you’ll also find plenty of information about William’s game Krendel.
Age Of Legends – Objet d’art
All of the over 80 illustrations used in Age of Legends is now available on Red Bubble as posters, stickers, framed prints, cushions, t-shirts and host of other things. We will be doing a few bundle offers to go with
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
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 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 &
Tips for Being a 6d6 Game Master
Or as we prefer to call it, the Game Leader. This isn’t us wanting to have a new name just to be different. Master is used for someone who has complete control over the game. In 6d6 that simply isn’t
Age of Legends Interviews
By the time you’re reading this there will be less than a day until the end of the Age of Legends Kickstarter. To hear us talking about the project, please check out these interviews. Hopefully they’ll convince you to talk about,
Great Write Up of the Age of Legends Kickstarter
As we enter the last few days, the Die Heart RPG blog has a detailed review of the Age of Legends Kickstarter. This supplement makes a very good impression. It creates a compelling re-imagined Ancient Greece setting, is complete and
A History of Age of Legends
As the Kickstarter enters its second week, we’d like to tell you about the history of the project. Four years of work have yielded 100,000 words, 35 gods and 440 advantages. Not bad for our first game. A Beginning Back in 2009,