Role playing game software and accessories
You can now take the RPG Blog Readership Survey by following this link: http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=NLJOJ_6cc605e2 The survey is designed to be useful for all blog writers, not just for this blog or the blog writers/owners who helped create questions. I’ll be …
I recently wrote 10 Ways to Vary Your Game World’s Cultures and promised more as I put together a larger piece on building a fantasy world’s culture. I’ve already written about designing religions (with a couple of example fantasy religions), …
I’ve gotten several words of encouragement and a bunch of additional, worthwhile questions. However, I’m still finalizing the survey and I expect to launch it next week. If you have ideas for new questions and potential answers or want to …
RPG Blog Readership Survey Development Continues Read more »
I’m planning on putting together a survey for RPG-related blog readers. I want it to be useful to all RPG blog writers and readers, not just me. (The results will be posted/shared with anyone interested.) I know WotC did a …
Soliciting Questions for a General RPG Blog Readership Survey Read more »
Cultures should not have a one-to-one relationship with countries or states in your game world. Many provinces will have more than one culture and in many cases the cultures may overlap. In some cases where they overlap, one of the …
A list of free inn and tavern maps continues this semi-regular series that features interesting and useful RPG resources. I would highly recommend printing a few of these out and keeping them in a GM’s notebook so you can pick …
This year’s RPG Superstar contest from Paizo Publishing has been over for a few months, but there has been some discussion ever since. If you haven’t followed it, the contest was divided into several phases: An open contest where anyone …
Game Design Tips from the Paizo RPG Superstar Contest Read more »
My Hexographer hex mapping software is only a release or two away from version 1.0. (I hope.) If you haven’t seen it before, it allows a user to make quickly and easily make maps in the style of 80’s/early 90’s …
Hexographer (Hex Mapping Software) Nears Version 1.0 Read more »
Most role-playing games have some form of experience points that allow characters to gain strength and abilities over time. But sometimes experience point awards don’t factor in all the aspects of RPGs that most people want to encourage. Several years …
Experience Points Should Reward All Gaming Styles Read more »
Yesterday’s post of 101 Fantasy City/Town/Village maps made me think about real historical city maps. I was going to links to many of them (not 101 of them because doing upwards of 101 links in one or even two or …
RPG Resources of the Day: Two Sites with Hundreds of Real Historical City Maps Read more »