Previous: Chapter 1: A Damsel in Distress Going back to the school covered in blood and dirt and saliva was out of the question, but the Fish was close by and Manny would let me clean up enough to
One of my priorities in how I GM is that I want the players to be active and engaged, not just act as my audience. So when I started planning out a new adventure with a heavy investigation
As a player, I like writing backstories as vignettes rather than surveys or lists. Mostly they're a page or two to communicate personality and motivation. But one time a backstory kind of got
There are a bazillion different takes on the fantasy genre (yes, I counted), but Amy Raby's Coalition of Mages series is the only one I know of based on the Indus River Valley civilization, circa
In the last post, Power Sources I: Polishing a Half-baked Idea, I described my general approach to creating a power system as part of making a D&D 4e homebrew. So, let's walk through the
In D&D 4e, the developers categorized classes in terms of combat role (controller, defender, leader, and striker) and power source (arcane, divine, martial, primal, and psionic). The compulsive