About Charles Dunwoody

Charles Dunwoody is not a robot and is willing to type tilted letters and numbers to prove it. He started playing and running RPGs with Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (before it was first edition) and is currently ten sessions in GMing Forbidden Lands. He wrote a few articles for Dragon Magazine when it was in print, wrote a bit more for Mongoose’s electronic Signs & Portents, and was paid for a supplement for Bulldogs! (d20 version) that was sadly never published and ran adventures for Bulldogs! at Gen Con. Currently, he ran demos of the Alien RPG for Free League at Gen Con 2019 and freelance writes for EN World and Geek Native. He also camps year round, backpacks, and canoes when not reading and writing. See, not a robot.

Basic D&D Compared to Forbidden Lands: Layout and Format Matter

February 2, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

I vastly prefer an RPG book with a layout meant to facilitate use at the table rather than written like a book with blocks of paragraphs.

Learn to GM Using Mutant: Year Zero the TTRPG

December 31, 2019 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

If you are looking to GM for the very first time or just looking for a new table top RPG to run, you can try out Mutant: Year Zero using just a free PDF and some spare six-sided dice you scavenge from board games.

RPG Rules that affect the use of fictional violence

December 4, 2019 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

A variety of RPGs provide mechanical effects that affect the use of violence in a game.

Using fictional violence to enhance your roleplaying

October 27, 2019 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Your character kills a kidnapper and saves a child. Do you roleplay the effect that killing has on your player character?