For years, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game fans have lamented the absence of an ‘arcane paladin’ type of class – one with full base attack bonus, limited spell access (to arcane spells instead of divine) and a small set of interesting, flavorful special abilities. Lament no longer! The Expanded Battle Scion is just such a class! Designer […]
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Try to remember for a moment a more innocent time in your life. Back then, the thought of vampires and werewolves lurking in the dark might have sent a chill down your spine. These days, though, when people discuss shows such as The Walking Dead or Being Human, it’s not with the same sense of
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Welcome to the second part of the article that covers character backgrounds for GMs! You can read the first part here. This time, Brian discusses weaving together the backgrounds and more, so take a look. Interweaving the Backgrounds of the Party After you have carefully examined each character’s background, you can then interweave the elements—naturally
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Although many a roleplayer may bemoan the lack of women in our community, I’m here to tell you they are out there, waiting to be enticed by goblins, treasure, and adventures. On Friday, April 12th, I hosted the fifth monthly Queer Geek! Ladies’ Gaming Night in Seattle, Washington. Usually we all get together and play
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Midgard Icons presents some of the Midgard Campaign Setting’s major NPCs as icons for use in 13th Age, the new fantasy roleplaying game from Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet. Bring them into your 13th Age campaign; run 13th Age in the world of Midgard; or port the icon relationship rules into your system of choice.
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The April issue of ProFantasy Software’s Cartographer’s Annual 2013 contains a gorgeous new CC3 style by fantasy cartographer Jonathan Roberts: the Midgard World Overland Style, based on his world map for the Midgard Campaign Setting. Jonathan’s map style is compatible with the overland style he created for the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 5, but is also fully self-contained.
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When you get your players to develop detailed histories, they will see them as ways to explore their own characters, but you, as the GM, know what they really are: game generating fodder. When I’m writing a screenplay, I interweave my plot with the backgrounds of my characters. Often I find ways for the plot
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In the past couple of years, Stuffer Shack has been running a contest that awards a worthy blogging site with the title of RPG Site of the Year (SOTY). Today, several sites are up for voting for the 2013 SOTY award, and one of them is Kobold Press! Yes! Us! Please do take a moment
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The polls are closed, the responses collected, and the announcement? We’re making it right now! A quick note before we announce the winning spell, though. The contest polls showed a very CLOSE race among the spells, which was exciting and fun. Clearly, we had some excellent finalists — and that made it hard for the
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Last time, we went over a quick system for mutating your monsters so that they can provide a more unknown challenge for your player characters to face. Let’s take a look at a few examples, starting with the humble goblin. Goblins For starters, goblins are not CR 1. To get there, they need 2 player
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A good GM is one part entertainer and one part engineer. And, like a magician, you are only as good as your last trick. Players are like a savvy audience at a magic show—you aren’t going to wow them with the standard magic act. All too often, it seems like they’ve seen behind the curtain.
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In the first part of this series, Charles began exploring exorcism in the Pathfinder game and provided us with the cost of failure. In part 2, he took us into the commandments exorcists can use, as well as how to handle true names. This time, he provides you with some options that allies might have
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In the first part of this series, Charles began exploring exorcism in the Pathfinder game and provided us with the cost of failure. This time, he takes us into the commandments exorcists can use, as well as how to handle true names. Commandments Commandments are orders issued with special divine authority. Exorcists learn how to
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In stories, exorcisms are exciting events. In fantasy roleplaying games, exorcisms are usually glossed over. Pathfinder, for example, condenses exorcism into a single saving throw. But what if you want exorcisms to receive more attention and provide more opportunities for action? If you want to see this in your game, this blog series might be
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After receiving over forty submissions, our panel of esteemed judges had the hard task of narrowing those down to five finalists, which we now present to you. Please take a look at the wondrous spells, evaluate them, and vote for one of them. We’ll be closing the poll down on April 16, 2013, so vote
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Our little benefit raffle to help out a fellow gamer in a time of need is done, and one thing is very clear: Kobolds care . . . a lot. All told we raised $580 to help Ernie get back on his feet. I’m in contact with his brother, Luke, who has set up a
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