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5 Tips on How to Be a Good Player from a GM
Usually on the Campaign Trail, I write articles to help out my fellow GMs. This week I wanted to write something to help out all the players.
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Gaming Zines And You
There has always been a history of amateur publications in role-playing games, going back as far as Lee Gold's influential APA zine Alarums & Excursions started in the 70s. With the resurgence of zine publishing there has been an explosion of people publishing zines again, and the RPG field isn't alone in this.
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When Monsters Run: A Quick 'n Easy Morale System for D&D.
The original form of Dungeons & Dragons grew out of a tabletop wargame. As such, it had a set of morale rules: rules to determine when a troop of monsters (or men) would stay and fight.
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How We Won the War on Dungeons & Dragons
Thirty years ago, a war raged between the dorks who played Dungeons & Dragons, and the conservative parent groups who believed that gaming was debauched at best and Satanic at worst. Lives were ruined. People died. And now that war is over. I still can't believe we won.
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There's Not Much Role-Playing in Role-Playing Games These Days
If you're wondering why Extra Punctuation doesn't seem to show up as often as it used to, it's because it had gone on long enough that I started to feel like I was repeating myself, and rather than feeling obliged to force out a page of rambly bollocks I should only do them when there's something about the most recently ZPed game that I really genuinely want to write about. So here we are. I want to talk about role playing. And why it seems to be such a very small part of what are termed "role-playing games" these days.
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Bandai Namco announces Code Vein, a new action RPG from the God Eater team
The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals Code Vein, a new “dungeon exploration-type, hard action RPG” from Bandai Namco developed by the team behind God Eater. It is due out in 2018 for unannounced platform(s). Read more at http://gematsu.com/2017/04/bandai-namco-announces-code-vein-new-action-rpg-god-eater-team#WXAY0LowRhV7H5OL.99
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Converting Old D&D Adventures to 5th Edition
Today I’m going to take a stab at explaining how you can convert older adventures to 5th edition D&D rules.
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The Default Adventure Skeleton: An Easy Checklist for DMs
Simple tools and checklists can give us a lot of leverage when running our RPGs and we can use such a checklist as a basic guide for maintaining an interesting pace during our next game. This article contains one such checklist in the form of an adventure skeleton.
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Full Pricing for D&D Beyond, Wizards' first official source for digital sourcebooks
Because it's almost 2018 and there's still no way to buy legal PDFs.
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The making of Alpha Protocol, Obsidian's secret best RPG
Imagine a glitzy cinematic sequence where you, as a secret agent, fight your way through an aeroplane soaring through the sky. You're pressing button prompts appearing on the screen while your hero whacks, chops, spins and kicks at the baddie in your way. "You fight all the way down until eventually you beat the guy and rip off his parachute and, I don't know, break his neck, and he floats off and you use his parachute to land."
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Chris Avellone may be teasing a new Fallout game
Chris Avellone is an RPG machine. His credits stretch back two decades, to games including Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, and—in 2017 alone—Torment: Tides of Numenera, Prey, and Divinity: Original Sin 2. He also had a hand in Fallout 2 and Fallout: New Vegas, which is why a recent bit of activity on his Facebook page has caused quite a stir among fans.
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Kan Gao on the benefits and drawbacks of designing in RPG Maker
I compare RPG Maker to a pencil. With a pencil there are techniques to learn, but compared to the other writing tools, its the most simplistic one. But you can still create elaborate works with it.
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CD Projekt Red Says Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be 'No Bullshit' Story-Driven RPG
The Polish game studio tweeted earlier today that its upcoming scifi game would be “nothing less than” The Witcher 3. The statement was aimed at quelling fears Cyberpunk 2077 might include microtransactions after studio CEO Adam Kicinski said “there will be a certain online element related to Cyberpunk” in an interview earlier in the week.
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It’s a Living: Meet One of New York’s Best Professional D&D Dungeon Masters
The popularity of Dungeons & Dragons is surging. Timm Woods turned his obsession with the tabletop game into a profitable profession.
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My life as the grandma guildmaster of Ultima Online Forever
Here in the United States, it was about 3 a.m. I had no idea what time it was in Sweden where my friend lived. He didn't care, either. He was drunk and sad and needed a shoulder to cry on, even though that shoulder was across the world. He wanted to die. I didn't want him to die. So, for three hours, I talked to him until he passed out and I could hear him snoring on our voice chat call.
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How Inmates Play Tabletop RPGs in Prisons Where Dice Are Contraband
In correctional facilities across America, inmates cluster around tables in the common room to play games like Dungeons & Dragons. And they do it without dice.
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How Larian Studios skirted bankruptcy before making Divinity: Original Sin
Larian Studios is, for now, the Divinity: Original Sin studio. Its last two games, both Kickstarted and publisher-free, are the biggest successes the studio has ever seen. The Belgian developer didn’t go from obscurity to success, however, and it has been designing notable RPGs and strategy games, within and without the Divinity universe, for over two decades.
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A new Diablo game is in the works
RPG fans rejoice: game developer Blizzard Entertainment's job listings reveal that an 'unannounced Diablo project' is on the cards.
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Shadowrun Returns Deluxe - Free via Humble Bundle
Shadowrun Returns Deluxe contains the following content: - Shadowrun Returns base game - Shadowrun Returns Anthology DLC - Shadowrun Returns Soundtrack DLC - Shadowrun Returns Soundtrack
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Bethesda says Fallout 76's nukes are hard to get and easy to avoid
Fallout 76's futuristic West Virginia is littered with nuclear missiles that players can use however they see fit. To some, that sounds like a humorous bit of chaos, but many Fallout fans are worried about what those nukes could do to their experience. That is to say, am I going to get spontaneously atomized while I'm out exploring? In a recent interview with Swedish games site FZ, Bethesda marketing VP Pete Hines addressed these and other fears regarding player-controlled nukes.
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