Flavoured with our secret recipe of herbs, spices and waffle, the best of this week’s blogging in one tasty bucket.
- One of several competitions around at the moment (like our own Adventure Writing Competition), the Free RPG Blog has a 24 hour RPG Competition – Win Amazon vouchers!
- Another competition is from Critical Hits (and others) Announcing the One Page Dungeon Contest
- The third and final competition this week is the Game Design Challange- 48 Hour RPG Design Challange from Wild Die who also have Open D6 News
- The Fine Art of the Total Party Kill has disturbing news – We’ve all heard of furries…but SCALIES!?
- Pen & Paper Portal are took this idea too far and found NSFW: Bad Dragon Sex Toys Are A Critical Eww
- Dr Checkmate has the best post title this week – Save vs. Office Supplies
- But pun of the week goes to Campaign Mastery and Lore Enforcement: The Legal System in an RPG
- In a similar vein, How do campaign governments deal with adventurers? is a great question from The RPG Athenaeum (who is making their first appearance in the bucket)
- Ideas for your campaign from Mostly Geek (another first timer I think) in An unbelievable heist – a real life RPG scenario
- RPG Dumping Ground as been playing with some of my favourite open source tools and made Map Hackings: The Beginning
- Darrens Sims is also showing off his artistic side in Cut-away Orlanthi Steadhouse
- I make a point about not linking to non-gaming / real life blog posts but I have to make an exception for this because the Dice Monkey deserves his bragging rights – Critical Failure: Twitter
- Chgowiz’s is going back to my youth and my Atari 800XL with Ultima – How Will Magic Work?
- Sad news from the Traveller community but a great tribute to Jerry Mapes by The Zhodani Base
- In the RPG Corner there is an interesting take on history – The OD&D Endgame…in Real Life!
- 3Point75 follows up on the WotC PDF cock-up with WotC president Greg Leed and I!!!
- Exchange of Realities is teasing us with Dangling a Curtain: The Secret to Keeping People’s Interest
- UncleBear’s stance on #amazonfail is a good description of this post from Uncle Bear.
- NewbieDM and I have very similar views On game balance…
- Stargazer’s World is playing with himself in Solo Game with Fudge and Horror
- It looks bad but RPG Centric likes it – Krod Mandoon and Your Campaign
- Geek Related has something else for us to watch – TV for Gaming: Deadliest Warrior
- Useful tips from D20 Source in Five Ways To Speed Up Combat
- Feeling a bit lonesome, A Hero Twice a Month asks Am I The Only Person Using Rituals?
- A great source of information from Purple Pawn in Webzine Roundup
- Maybe taking a metaphor too far, How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less suggests that D&D is a Grand Romance
2 Comments
Great list of links!
And by the way, Solo Game as I understand it, is with one player and the GM. So I am not exactly playing with myself then … at least not when fantasy roleplaying … ahh, darn … forget it…
Stargazer´s last blog post..Minions in D&D 4th Edition: Hit or Miss?
*bows*
You know you’re Game Master when your save gets weaker.