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Charles Dunwoody has been hard at work writing Tabletop & RPGs articles for you.

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Colony Creation in Alien: Building Better Worlds

April 7, 2024 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Building Better Worlds covers a mini-campaign and provides great support for colony play. In the back of the book are random tables to create a planet, and the colony established there that the PCs will be running.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien, Free League Publishing, reviews, world building

Worldbuilding Forbidden Lands: Dark Secrets of The Bloodmarch

March 3, 2024 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This setting is a great location to launch a new brand new campaign with plenty of worldbuilding support provided.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, worldbuilding

Worldbuilding Troika!: Books Full of Weird and Astonishing Adventures

February 11, 2024 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Troika! is a true treasure and a great system for world building and running exciting adventures. The science-fantasy RPG includes old, decadent crystal Spheres; worlds hung across a hump-backed sky and reachable by golden-sailed barge, labyrinths of non-Euclidean geometry, and eldritch portals.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Melsonian Arts Council, troika, world building

Worldbuilding Troika!: A Treasure of an RPG

January 7, 2024 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

I’m just going to touch on a few of the rules that bring the worlds of Troika! to life for me. These rules enhance the setting and fill in needed details to the implied setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: troika, world building

Worldbuilding with The One Ring: Tales from the Lone-lands

December 3, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

While the setting and adventures contain much that makes The Lord of the Rings amazing, it is set at more of a scale to match the adventure Bilbo had in The Hobbit. Perfect for RPG world building.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, The One Ring, world building, year zero world building

Vaesen: The Lost Mountain Saga

November 5, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

The Lost Mountain Saga is not something I can run right now. But the book is wonderfully made and full of great ideas, amazing art, useful maps, and an entertaining story of what could be around a game table.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, review, vaesen

Tales from the Loop: They Grow Up So Fast

October 8, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

In addition to adventures, They Grow Up So Fast and Our Friends the Machines cover a new setting in the world of Tales from the Loop. Norfolk Broads is a United Kingdom-based Loop.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, Free League Publishing, tales from the loop, world building

Pirate Borg: Infest the Dark Caribbean with Undead

September 9, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Pirate Borg is packed with support for the GM: random tables, history of the Dark Caribbean, nation information, a complete settlement, and a full adventure.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Free League Publishing, mork borg, pirate borg, pirates, review

Completely Unfathomable: NPCs Help Build a World

August 20, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This month covers creating non-player characters to help build the world and bring it to life.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon crawl classics, rpg tips, world building

Year Zero Worldbuilding: Forbidden Lands – The Bloodmarch

July 2, 2023 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Year Zero World Building creates campaign settings using Free League’s RPGs. This month looks at The Bloodmarch, a realm in the world of the Forbidden Lands.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, forbidden lands, Free League Publishing, world building

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