Posts Tagged by campaigns
| May 9, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Written by award-winning authors Phil Vecchione and Walt Ciechanowski, the fourth book from Gnome Stew and Engine Publishing is coming in July: Odyssey: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Campaign Management. Opening with a foreword by RPG industry legend Kenneth Hite, Odyssey is, to our knowledge, the first book of its kind. It offers up 200 pages of system-neutral advice on starting, managing, and ending campaigns for game masters of all stripes and experience levels. Tell me more! You may have guessed from the title…
| May 3, 2013 | Posted by Guest Author |
Today’s guest article is by Christopher M. Sniezak, the producer and host of The Misdirected Mark Podcast, one of the movers behind the Queen City Conquest gaming convention, who is slowly building up writing credits in the gaming and fiction industry. He believes you should try every game you can so you can figure out what you actually enjoy. Thanks, Chris! I think presentation is king, be it at the table or in the rulebook you’re reading. When it comes to playing at the table…
| March 20, 2013 | Posted by Kurt "Telas" Schneider |
At the risk of being ‘that guy,’ I’m going to tell you about my campaign. My gaming group recently wrapped up our 1980s Anomaly Adjustment Agency campaign. This was my first non-fantasy campaign since junior high school, and my first modern campaign ever. It ran for 18 months, went places I never expected in-game, and had a few unexpected out-of-game moments. Here are a few of the lessons I learned while preparing and running this campaign. Inspirations The three biggest inspirations for the campaign were…
| February 14, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Gnome Stew and Engine Publishing are partnering with Lone Wolf Development to integrate the content from all three of our books into their forthcoming Realm Works campaign management software. Backers of the Kickstarter campaign for Realm Works will be able to access Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep, Masks: 1,000 Memorable NPCs for Any Roleplaying Game, and Eureka: 501 Adventure Plots to Inspire Game Masters within Realm Works for free. What’s Realm Works? Realm Works is a system-neutral tool that enables…
| January 31, 2013 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
In line with the New Year, New Game challenge, and as a way to break out of my slump, I have started up a new campaign in an old game system: Underground. My plan to break the slump was to change things up and get out of the old habits I used to run my sessions and campaigns. To start that off on the right foot, I changed up how I put together the campaign by making a stew of some of the best campaign setup techniques…
| January 15, 2013 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
This is the third and final article in my sporadic series on Lamentations of the Flame Princess products: a look at my favorite aspect of Vornheim: The Complete City Kit. (The previous two articles covered Carcosa and Isle of the Unknown.) Like its predecessors, this is a product spotlight and not a review; Phil reviewed Vornheim back in 2011. Vornheim is a neat book in all sorts of ways. Written by Zak S., the author of Playing D&D with Pornstars (which is NSFW and excellent…
| October 25, 2012 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
I have not had a good run of games lately. Seems like just a few articles ago I was talking about my new Agents of Oblivion campaign, on the heels of a failed Corporation game. Over the past year, I have not been able to get a game to run for any length of time. So when it looked like Agents of Oblivion was not going to make it, I sat down with my players to find out what was going on, and we learned…
