Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
Ron’s Rules of Coordinating Convention Gaming Part 1 1 – DO NOT treat all games the same. Do not be a cookie cutter convention. Most RPGers like it a certain way, while boardgamers like it totally different. Etc. This is the mindset of a big tent gaming con. 2 – Games like Magic The Gathering…
This is something I had in my archives, saved from some newsgroup or another. We used it when we integrated by Ian FLannery McKern character into the World of Darkness. Hopefully the authors won’t mind me posting it. This is from the mid-90s. “There can be only one.” Prologue “No one has ever known we…
I am not entirely sure where I got this – but I used it often for inspiration Breaking and Entering~Mission objective: enter the dangerous place, and retrieve the vital dingus or valuable person. Overcome the area’s defenses to do so. Common Twists & Themes: The goal is not to extract a thing, but to destroy…
A collection of riddles i got off a mailing list, way back when… Riddle: I have many tongues but cannot taste By me, most thigs are turned to waste I crack and snap, yet I stay whole I may take the largest toll I assisted all of the first men And I will pay them…
My RPG Profile Instructions Copy and paste this into a new note and replace my answers with your own. Then tag all your gamer friends and ask them to do the same (and tag me back!). If you’re new to creating notes, go to your notes, click the “Write a New Note” button in the…
For several years at the Guild and at MACE, I ran a GM Improv contest. You would get the name of every GM and what system they want to run (each making generic pre-generated characters for that system). Each GM would end up writing for another GM a single paragraph summary of an adventure and…
Something I used to get to know my characters in my campaign I need to get a background from each of your characters. Please use the following template to give me a run down of your character. Type [GM Option] in anything you want me to fill in 🙂 GENERAL INFORMATION NAME: (Your Character name)ALIAS:…
Borrowed from GDW, this set of ideas are a way to abstractly write out an adventure or campaign.  On the campaign level, it is very recursive in nature, because the overall campaign can have BASICS/PUSH/PULL/GIMMICk/ENIGMA and within the campaign, there are adventures (usually part of the PUSH or PULL) that themselves have BASICS/PUSH/PULL/GIMMICK/ENIGMA.  Within those adventures,…
Every gamer is different as we all know and I am no exception. I like certain type of gamers involved in my game and others I can not handle. I don’t deal with confrontation well, especially when it deals with something we are supposed to be having fun with, but gaming is social and in…
My recent experience and decisions to change them has brought a question to mind that I find myself pondering on a lot. A few questions, actually. My past gaming group of 20+ years was incredibly satisfying in terms of gaming experiences. But what was so satisfying about them? What did I find in them that…