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Well, not really (these too look way too ill-fed, for one thing), but this article over at The Sun got me thinking, quite naturally, to my gaming-addled brain, about those who live in underground environments. Are these not the orcs Read More
There are two basic approaches to setting design when it comes to starting a new campaign. The first, as immortalized in the DMG, is the “pinpoint” approach to campaign design. “The milieu for initial adventuring should be kept to a Read More
I’ve not really given much thought to how other planes would be dealt with in my “folkloric” concept of setting design. But I did have an insight this morning that I thought might be interesting to play around with. What Read More
Ah, alignment, the bane of every player who wanted his character to be “chaotic greedy”. The inital spectrum of alignment, Law-Neutrality-Chaos, probably stems from Moorcock’s Elric books, although Zelazny’s Amber novels came out starting in the early 1970’s, so it’s Read More
Most RPG fantasy settings resemble, at least to one extent or another, medieval/Renaissance Europe. This isn’t by accident; most of the literary antecedents of the genre are similarly set (think the Hyborean Age, or Tolkien’s Middle Earth), and doing so Read More
Well, as long as I’m covering all the bases, I might as well delve into the concept of magic in the RPG into the bargain. The “Vancian” magic system, so well-known to A/D&D players, was of course the staple up Read More
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