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Archives for January 2019

What’s the best thing to do when a player misses a game?

January 5, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

If you’ve been part of a tabletop roleplaying game, then there’s a good chance you’re all too aware of one of the hobby’s most significant challenges; schedule coordination. Even if the GM and players agree on a date, then there’s always a risk that one player has to cancel at short notice or doesn’t turn […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

This DMs Guild tool turns Fantasy Grounds into a solo adventure generator

January 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox is a Fantasy Grounds MOD that adds in random quests, random encounters, the ability to create dungeons randomly, wilderness exploration and town settlements and NPCs. The toolkit creates random NPCs including merchants with shops, and they say infinite monster encounters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dungeon masters guild, Fantasy Grounds, solo rpgs

New Year, New Game: Download a free Pugmire preview

January 4, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Pugmire is an RPG set after the Ages of Man have ended and new races have evolved. The dogs of many breeds now work within the tenets of their religion, with politics and adventure to rescue relics of fallen kingdoms and keep their borders safe.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: drivethrurpg, Eddy Webb, free to download, previews, pugmire, sales

13,000 dice disaster transformed into a work of art

January 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not often you see 13,000 dice stacked up against the wall but you can here.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: dice

Wow your players with living maps for Dungeons & Dragons

January 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We first took a peek at Dynamic Dungeons in the first half of last year and checked out some of their living and moving maps for D&D and other RPGs. They have got a few new videos worthy of your time. Modular city sewer living map pack City jail and haunted prison maps What these […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography

Don’t miss the new tier in the “New Year, New Game” sale at DriveThruRPG

January 3, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Usually, at the start of January DriveThruRPG has a special offer on called “New Year, New Game!”.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Alligator Alley Entertainment, amazing tales, changeling: the dreaming, cubicle 7, Esper Genesis, gallant knight games, magpie games, masks, onyx path publishing, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, sales, star trek, Ulisses Spiele, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, white wolf, wrath & glory

Official $450 Dungeons & Dragons dragon head for your wall

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The idea is very much that you put the dragon plaque on the wall of your gaming den and so it comes with everything you need to hang the piece.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: dragons, Dungeons & Dragons, household, wizards of the coast, wizkids

What are murder hobos and where did the phrase come from?

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The discussion was around the use of the traditional 10-foot pole. Early D&D games were full of dungeons traps, and paranoid characters would use a long pole to check for pits, poke treasure chests (in case of mimic beasts) and try to push doors open.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: rpg ideas

Mike McCraw’s Heliocentric

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Foil Four are Boxer, the dog, Campbell the hamster, Herman the tortoise and Verve the aloof monkey.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: animation, space

Bird with a Brush brings dice to life

January 2, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What if your roleplaying dice had adventures of their own?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: models, Reaper Miniatures

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