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When the first wizard wrote the first book for the first time, the pages broke away by the thousands and flew about the world. They tucked themselves under rocks and riverbeds....
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In the Labyrinth, the players came across the Hedge Beasts (pg. 104). Six large hedge animals charged them: a serpent, bull, spider, lion, gorilla, giraffe. Players take ’em...
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Ever almost release a game and then someone makes a hack of it? Yeah, same. This blew my mind. A student of mine on Outschool shared this with me. She sent a game and adventure...
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Most fantasy RPGs are base-melee. They assume swords, claws, and clubs from adventurers and monsters alike. Many modern and sci-fi RPGs are base-ranged. They assume pew-pew...
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Childhood games made deadly for money. Squid Game is a Netflix show lots have been watching a talking about. It’s a Korean gambling show filled with people in debt, but...
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Inspired by this post from Was It Likely on Free Association Monstrosities. Pulling also from Electric Bastionland. Everything (dungeons included) has three purposes: Original...
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This is part of the Playing with Youngers series. It takes little context to enjoy on its own. I run games for kids. I run them online. There are troubles that come with these...
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This table didn’t make it into Adventure Hour! but it has a special place in my heart. Enjoy. Bad impressions are better than good ones at the table. Except it makes being...
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I initially bounced off of Jon Peterson’s Playing at the World. It was too heady and abstract but also grievously specific. Couldn’t get into it. Then I saw a couple of reviews...
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Imagine a world… Drizzling black rain, sizzling neon signs. Dark corporations, stark poverty. Massive skyscrapers, passive onlookers. Midnight gangs, mid-fight scrappers. Enter...
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Spilling and gutting the contents of Labyrinth, The Hobbit, and now Over the Garden Wall in this format has revealed many cool things about adventure structure to me. In...
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This is FKR! Does Ben making a video about it mean that it’s bleeding into the mainstream or that it has already become mainstream? Either way, it’s an excellent summary. Great...
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We examined non-death consequences in the context of The Hobbit. Now let’s do the same for this wonderful mini-series, just in time for Spook-season. Now remember, we’re...
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This is an excerpt from the upcoming Adventure Hour! It is also part of an effort on my part to make content more “evergreen.” Follow the design process and receive the...
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Sent by Yochai Gal of New School Revolution/Cairn fame. (Go grab Cairn from Lulu or Amazon!) By Skullfungus. It uses the Five Room Dungeon, which we talked about with the...
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I’m a minimalist. It’s not the “only own 100 items” nonsense, nor the “I don’t buy food except beans and rice” type. It’s this: “Keep the best, cut the crap.” Since coming back...
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Name “Dragonslayer Adventures!” I cried. “What’s with all the violence in RPGs?!” cried others. “Oh…” said I. I love slaying dragons. It’s in my name, given when I hatched to...
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Found this on the cover of the instructions for a game from called “WORST CASE SCENARIO: Game of Surviving Life.” I just think it’s funny. Imagine this in front of Dungeons and...
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26 responses. As I mentioned, thank you for taking the time. This is all for the continued development of Dragonslayer Adventures. The “target age” of this survey was never...
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This is a great one for a lazy Sunday afternoon. But first, is it “CAH-TAN” or “CAH-TAWN?” Play vanilla, no-expansions Settlers of Catan. But, Re-roll all 7s. Do not use the...
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If you run RPGs for kids, I could use your help in creating a fantasy RPG that best fits that niche. Right now, I’m looking for the common concerns and ideal outcomes for such...
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The name “Dragonslayer Adventures” has been dropped in favor of “Adventure Hour!“ “Adventure Hour!?” you ask. “Isn’t that already available for free?” And if you clicked either...
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In role-playing games, players take on one character, designated as “their character.”* The GM then gives information about the situation that the character and other...
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This and the previous post are now part of a new series: Focus on the World. There’s been a shift here. Used to be that I talked XP required to level. Then I talked about the...
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Many times, gamers think of the rules of games before their settings. We think of trading wheat, sheep, and ore before we think of the land of Catan. We think of playing that...
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This is an interview with Megan Hardy, the highest reviewed gamemaster on Outschool. We talked about running games for kids, the challenges of online play, and how to use the...
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This topic was voted on by my Patrons. Join the process, ask questions and more! Often times you’ll have kids of different ages playing together. This was the case when I was...
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There are many ways to play Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I recently had the joy of sharing my favorite game with my father, my brother, and a good friend. Each of them played...
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(Current players, look away, thx). This is an open strategy game, cousin to the role-playing game. The War in Crow’s Foot – A Blades in the Dark Open Strategy Game, is now on...
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I love Lady Blackbird (it’s free, go flip through it). Never play it, but I’ve read through it so many times. The scenario’s roster of characters are so well developed and...