Game Mastery

GM's Tip of the Week

Cruvis has written a series of GM’s Tips: Ten Things Every DM Should Know About Running a Play-By-Post Adventure, and is sharing them with us as a guest blogger! Please direct questions, commentary and kudos to him. This week’s tip is: Transparency This one was a huge learning

Adventure Prompt

Query of Sevens

In the fine old tradition of the pied piper, the village’s resident pigs have all been lured away. Perhaps the rumoured hermit will know something of why… if you can find him.

Wudinar's Adventuring Tips

This might go without saying, but when you hear drums in the depths, it is probably time to vacate the premises… and seal the gates. On that note, there are two related pointers I have for aspiring dungeon-delvers today. One, do not leave enemies behind you. They could catch you

Game Mastery

GM's Tip of the Week

Cruvis has written a series of GM’s Tips: Ten Things Every DM Should Know About Running a Play-By-Post Adventure, and is sharing them with us as a guest blogger! Please direct questions, commentary and kudos to him. This week’s tip is: Writing and Storytelling over Mechanics Play by

Gaming News

Things that caught my eye over the past few weeks: * Harmony Gold is resuming their legal crusade against BattleTech. You’d think after 20 years and a full rework of the “Unseen”, there would no longer be a case… * Catalyst are building a deckbuilding game on the D&D

Wudinar's Adventuring Tips

While there is a certain satisfaction in self-sufficiency and independence, when you are out in the sticks (or worse, deep in hostile territory), there is something to be said for strength in numbers. Not everyone needs to be able to do everything (badly), but tasks can be split to the

Game Mastery

GM's Tip of the Week

Cruvis has written a series of GM’s Tips: Ten Things Every DM Should Know About Running a Play-By-Post Adventure, and is sharing them with us as a guest blogger! Please direct questions, commentary and kudos to him. This week’s tip is Critical Mass and Recruitment Size Matters In

Wudinar's Adventuring Tips

Efficient Quivers do not work only for arrows. The arrow compartment can hold wands, the bow compartment can hold staves, and the javelin compartment can hold rods. In a similar vein, spells like Treasure Stitching can be used to smuggle contraband, and feather tokens have been known to double as

Adventure Prompt

Query of Sevens

When in doubt, blame the witch; so everyone says. But when the plains are full of giant spiders – you have seen horses and cattle dragged down with your own eyes – and there are no witches to blame, what then? A hero succeeds at a purge, at cost of their life,

Character Pictures

GM's Tip of the Week

Hello, fellow Portalites. Cruvis is out this week, on account of vacation; so I’m going to cover a Portal tip for GMs that I hope will be helpful to everyone. I’m going to cover using images! The first thing you will need is a place to store images

Wudinar's Adventuring Tips

Summoned creatures are your friends. This could be quite literal in some settings or with some GMs, where a caster summoning the same creature type will always call upon the same creature, or metaphorical in others – but either way, they are wonderful for support and force multiplication. A summoned creature

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

The depths of the forest are dark and full of mysteries to all but you. Where others see frightening monsters, ominious shadows or worse, you see more. Shelter. Safety. Solitude… and sometimes, sanity are all there for a wanderer who seeks the comfort of human companionship only rarely….

books

Kickstarter Bi-weekly!

Alright, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the first Kickstarter post of the month! I have… rulebooks! Dice! 3d printers! Miniatures! Kobold Press! The Dark Eye! A lot of goodies, this week, in short. Check them out. Back some of them. Back none of them. Get wild and back them all.

Game Mastery

GM's Tip of the Week

Cruvis has written a series of GM’s Tips: Ten Things Every DM Should Know About Running a Play-By-Post Adventure, and is sharing them with us as a guest blogger! Please direct questions, commentary and kudos to him. This week’s tip is:Consistency, Pace, and the Gentle Nudge. The

Wudinar's Adventuring Tips

Along with rope, a mirror is an important part of every adventurer’s toolkit. From preventing shaving mistakes over looking around corners to signalling, it can be invaluable. And do not forget that when you are fighting a medusa or basilisk, the mirror can keep you from having to fight

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

They always said being chosen was a blessing. They said that being chosen for greatness meant that the chosen was great. They said a lot of things. They never mentioned heartbreak, knee-deep mud, madness and agony that is combat, and the deeper agony of making choices that can sever the

Game Mastery

GM's Tip of the Week

In honour of America’s favorite day to barbeque and blow things up – occasionally at the same time – I’m just going to point out that fireballs solve everything. … Except rogues, red or gold dragons, and fire elementals. For my American friends; have a safe and happy Fourth of July!

2e

Unexpected Daybreak (2e) Looking for Players

Hathgar is looking for players for his 2e edition game. In his words: “The world is not yet created. The adventures are not yet created. All that exists are some seeds and the potential for an elaborate tale spun out of fate. Using engines such as Mythic and even tools

Wudinar's Adventuring Tips

Rope is useful – even when one has substantial magical or high-tech support, one should not be without. Other than the obvious uses in climbing, restraining captives and lashing things together, rope can serve as a marker, can be unbraided to use the component strands, can serve as tinder, can be

Adventure Prompt

Query of Sevens

In a reality ruled by deity-level beings, what are those beings? What are they trying to do? Why? Where does you, the character fit in? And, perhaps the most important question; is it truth, or an elaborate lie, crafted to get something from the powerless masses?

3.5e

GM's Tip of the Week

Loss in a game is tricky. On the one hand, it’s just a game, right? Who cares if a player loses a character or two here and there, right? Just make another character and move on. Usually, it’s not that simple. The player may have spent weeks working

Wudinar's Adventuring Tips

I am certain this has been said before: Keep your objective in mind. Unless you were hired as exterminator, your goal is usually not to depopulate a region of its residents, but to get in, get your job done, and get out. And who knows, maybe some of the locals

dungeon furniture

Kickstarter Presents!

Terrain! 3d printers! Maps!  I also have it on good authority that there is another Zombicide expansion live, and Dwarven Forge hit the go button for DF5 – more Dungeon! – a couple of weeks ago. So don’t think that because I don’t link it, that it isn’t happening!

5e

Game Looking for Players: Swords of Justice (5e)

Cruvis is currently looking for one player to join the 5e game, Swords of Justice. This game has been running for 15 years. He is in need of a player who is familiar with gaming on the portal and is cool with the pace, reading, and writing involved. There are

Design

GM's Tip of the Week

A dozen other people have written far better guides on writing villains – and playing them – than I can. However, I’d like to think I can sum up the basics . The short form is that ‘Villains are People Too’. They don’t just wake up one day and decide to