Please recommend to me a podcast of actual roleplaying sessions. I have run through the Penny Arcade WOTC podcasts too many times to count and need something to listen to at work while I am doing factory job type things. I've poked around a little bit but Knife Errant feels too polished and some others spend waaaay too much time doing inside jokes ( Read more... )

I prize my two copies of first edition RuneQuest, my OCE white box D&D, my signed copies of Jeffrey Dillow's High Fantasy, I feel a strange sense of wonder at Metamorphosis Alpha, and at least once a year one of the gaming groups I'm in will play Bunnies & Burrows (on Easter, natch ( Read more... )

This evening I finally found time to continue work on my next RPG campaign after a long hiatus.  I have some stuff already written, and I know what the climax of the campaign will be like.  In a nutshell, it goes a little something like this ( Read more... )

Ok, so the universal RPG system I've been working on pretty much solo, in fits and starts, over the past four years is 95% done.  Or at least, the core rulebook is ( Read more... )

I GM an often-silly D&D game for two friends. Here is one of our recent email exchanges:

valkryor's character, a halfling, and shishain's character, an eladrin, have recently struck a "friends with benefits" arrangement. In email, there was a short discussion about the characters' preferences, kinks, tendencies, hard limits, and so on. My only contribution to ( Read more... )

So, here's a quick topic that might inject a little life into the community for a bit.  As a player, have you ever had a moment when what you knew in real life was reasonably what your character would also know, much to your delight and the GM's chagrin?  How about as a GM- has a player ever argued that metagame information really wasn't, and they ( Read more... )

If y'all remember the previous 'crowdsourcing RPG' threads I posted earlier, you will recall that I had the idea of throwing out a general premise for a campaign I wanted to run and letting others shape the particulars.  It went pretty well overall, but I'm too damn lazy to link back to them ( Read more... )

So, in the wake of my last campaign (which was awesome), we've started a new one. D&D 4e again, same world -- the players can see the effects their PCs have had on the world, and some of their characters' children are still influential NPCs here and there. One is a new demigod (he was a paladin named Bruce -- I think I had them rolling on the ( Read more... )

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I just wanted to spread the word of what goes on here in Quebec.

Don't get me wrong. I've never encountered an MMO that I consider a true RPG. And I don't entirely understand why--when I think of the MUDs and combat-heavy 3.5 dungeon crawls I used to play, and compare it to an MMO that offers quests to complete, levels to gain, skill trees to fill out, and trash mobs to slaughter, they seem familiar enough. But ( Read more... )