Right as I was wrapping up the post for the Phase Spider I had an inspiration. Yes the Phase Spider is a great Monster In your D&D and PF games. But the cool part about the alien nature is that you could easily slip this big nasty in to a few other settings with little… Continue reading Monster Flipped: The Phase Spider
How many people know someone who is afraid of spiders ? I think just about all of us do. It is a common fear. Now lets take your fear. Make it bigger then your average dinning room game table and has the ability to seamlessly shift between this plane and the Ethereal! Many players dread… Continue reading Monster: The Phase Spider
So with everything going on I was still able to have  a sit down with my friend over at Rolling Boxcars and kick off our fist Banter show. Its rough, but its was our first time out of the box and we will get better as we go. As I have been fighting to not… Continue reading Rolling Boxcars & Runkle Plays Games Banter Show #1
This time of year many GM's throw out the holiday themed game for their players. Well this Christmas eve I say let's ditch the elves and presents and get to what makes for a good roleplaying game story. Â And you need not look any further than the holiday itself and you find the perfect spirit… Continue reading Krampus
I desperately wanted to back this project but I had little to no faith in Palladium. After years and years of loving the RIFTS system and spending what had to be close to twenty years for Beyond the Supernatural. I was sadly certain that this amazing kickstarter was not going to stand up to its deadlines and quality would suffer greatly in the end.
This is a great post about the state of the finished product and the woes of what could have been one of the best kicks of the year.
By way of preface, this was supposed to be a fluff post, and take maybe a couple hours to write while I worked up test models for the game, took pics of the sprues, and noted down the hard spots for a new modeller.
It’s been a sodding week, and I’m only covering the worst offenders so far; the Destroids are on hold until I can get some magnets.
The mini quality has been, hands-down, the most controversial part of the entire game to date. Is everything shit? No, not by any means.
But all three armies (Zentraedi, Malcontent, and UEDF) get the shaft on something. The Quel-Regult is by far the worst offender, with multiple parts that don’t fit, and a missing component (see below). The UEDF player, meanwhile, gets a bit screwed by having even more models to build than the Zen player – models which take almost…
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Tis the season and since I am still packing for my move. I thought I would just leave this good bit of reading here for you. I love Themed games.
Welcome to the DMing 101 Christmas special! As part of the ongoing genre’s series, I’ll be offering some advice on how you can run a special game for your friends to make Christmas a bit more nerdy, just like I promised I would (aren’t I nice).
Advance warning: Part of this article espouses views about Christmas that may greatly contradict some people’s perspectives, I know it can be a touchy subject for some, so you have been warned.
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This hits the nail on the head in many ways. DM’ing for me is not just a love its an obsession and other shadows sheds a little light on the topic wonderfully.
Slowly, you step into the old throne room of the castle, your footsteps echoing back at you as they bounce off of the arched ceiling twenty feet above. The room extends ahead of you, an abandoned hall covered in a layer of dust, empty save for two rows of massive pillars. The air is cold, stale and still. As you progress forward between the pillars, your torchlight reveals the end of the hall, bringing the throne into your view. The grand seat of stone sits upon a wide pedestal of marble, in front of a tattered wall tapestry, flanked by time-worn statues depicting demonic knights. And then, in the illumination of your torch, you notice it: the king’s remains, a cobweb-covered skeleton sitting upon the throne, his hollow eye sockets somehow staring directly at you.
Perhaps I didn’t describe it quite that well at the time – I was fifteen…
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