Randall C Ellis is the writer and designer of titles like Sojourner’s Quest and Sojourner’s Moon. Established in 2012, the publisher Sojourner Games began with the idea; We believed that an exhilarating answer to the Old School Renaissance need for an adventure fantasy role playing game was possible. In this guest post Randall discusses his […]
11 clever items fantasy adventurers always forget to pack
There’s a scene in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire when the heroes are stuck on a tropical island and really need water to survive. They’re saved by a “spigot”; a device that can be hammered into a tree, so that the water from behind the bark and flow out. It’s usually called a tap and […]
4 great places to get free art for RPGs
This guest post is from Chris Tregenza, the creator of the 6d6 RPG, and helps game designers, bloggers and even GMs find suitable artwork for their projects. The 6d6 Core 2nd edition is available at DriveThruRPG this week, is published under a Creative Commons license and uses Creative Commons art itself. The use of Creative […]
10 ways to keep your Commoner or low powered character alive in Pathfinder
by J.M. Perkins – author of The Ultimate Adequate Commoner – the everyman’s guide to surviving and thriving. 1. When in Doubt: Run Away! Normal adventurers don’t retreat often, assuming (usually) that any challenge they are likely to face is ‘balanced’ to their level. Commoners never have this luxury, and so you should run away […]
Laniakea: Why your sci-fi RPG is too small
This video can be whatever you want it to be. Space porn? Yup. Education? Yup. Inspiration for your next sci-fi setting? Oh yes. The term to take away from this, I think, is supercluster. The plot device to borrow from the video may well be The Great Attractor. My evil GM mind is already a […]
38 tips on how to play a character with a different gender to your own
Have you seen a roleplaying game go horribly wrong when someone tried to play a character of a different sex to their own? Was it a guy trying to play a woman? While some roleplayers prefer to play characters with a different gender to their own it is not always an easy thing to get […]
RPG ideas: 20 incredible concept skyscraper designs
Are you running a future or alternative world RPG? Looking for building designs that will help your world feel very different from the world of today? Good news. The design and architecture site Evolvo has ran a competition to design futuristic skycrapers every year since 2006. There are very many impressive entries. This blog post […]
RPG ideas: The other type of gargoyle
Gargoyles are, in real life, fairly elaborate statues that perch on the edge of buildings. Their role is two-fold; firstly to show off the skill of the craftsman and therefore the wealth of the building owner but also to help channel rain water away from the wall. Last year a rather odd looking Xenomorph gargoyle […]
Short film: Biomorph
This is a film an evil GM shows to players along with the phrase “This is what you see!” Biomorph is a teaser animation project made by students at Danish VFX school in 2013. You can see how the scene demonstrates all sorts of modelling techniques and, I’ve got to say, a clip like this […]
Hey, evil GM – here’s how to feed your players monkey brains
One look at this novelty bowl based on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and I knew it was ideal for evil GMs. As an Evil GM you are responsible for being host and for setting the mood. This can be a conflict. You want to be a good host but you might want […]
