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Warhammer World Building: Soulbound City of Brightspear

March 14, 2021 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

An overview of the rules of Soulbound. Then details on kicking off a new campaign in the city of Brightspear follow to help a GM get started.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, cubicle 7, soulbound, warhammer, warhammer age of sigmar, world building, wrath & glory

Mythos World: Rules, Adventures, and Setting

December 8, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Call of Cthulhu offers the entire Earth as a setting in a variety of different time periods. I am slowly building my own Mythos world and revealing the secret history and details of a world haunted by monsters and the Mythos to the PCs. I am working on creating a long term campaign.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, mythos world, world building

Shieldice Studio’s world-building toolkit

December 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

The graphic is intended as a mind map or a checklist for kick-starting world-building exercises. At its heart, it reminds us that things are connected.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: realm fables, shieldice studio, world building

Ex Novo: A way for DMs and groups to gamify worldbuilding

October 12, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ex Novo is a settlement building game from Sharkbomb.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: ex novo, itch.io, reviews, sharkbomb, world building

Advanced World Building: Tower-Faced Demon Castle Adventure

October 4, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

Advanced World Building uses the tools from 1981’s Basic Dungeons & Dragons and Expert D&D and re-imagined in Old School Essentials to build a starting campaign setting. It is further enriched with the Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, Advanced Fantasy Monsters, and Advanced Fantasy Treasures. Even though it is based on Basic D&D, it could be used with other D&D rules or fantasy RPGs.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: advanced world building, basic world building, rpg tips, world building

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #67

September 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native's bullet-point summary of RPG news. Catch-up on stories on the site, from around the web as well as new releases and gaming tips.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, agon, batman, blackstorm realms, blue rose, Chaosium, chronicles of darkness, cold hearth collective, critical role, critical role foundation, cubicle 7, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, flames of freedom, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, good strong hands, goodman games, Green Ronin Publishing, grim & perilous studios, HeroQuest, holler, icewind dale, James Introcaso, jetpack 7, Jim Zub, mcdm, Modiphius Entertainment, monolith, mork borg, Necrotic Gnome, odd bard games, open ended games, Pelgrane Press, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, powered by the apocalypse, rime of the frostmaiden, roll20, routinely itemised, sara thompson, skullkickers, soulbound, star trek adventures, starfinder, The Contagion Chronicle, the yellow king, tiny dungeon, wildshape, wizards of the coast, world building

Basic World Building: Design a Waterborne Wilderness

September 18, 2020 by Charles Dunwoody Leave a Comment

This article covers creating a waterborne setting for PCs to explore.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic world building, skulls, world building

Adept Icarus’ Arium RPG building RPG is going strong on Kickstarter

September 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Arium is an RPG which also contains rules for your gaming group to build their own campaign setting.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: adept icarus, arium, kickstarters, world building

World Anvil introduces interactive diplomacy webs

August 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

How complicated is your gaming world? Do you have multiple countries, factions, religions and secret societies tied together in an intricate web of promises, treaties and relationships?

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: World Anvil, world building

GM Binder and World Anvil announce partnership

October 6, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the latest Kickstarter update, Levi Rosol of GM Binder announced a partnership with World Anvil.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: gm binder, World Anvil, world building

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