Posts Tagged ‘Pulp’
Words & Wonders: Craft at the Table
Today we roll up our sleeves and dig into the hands-on craft of running a great tabletop RPG session. Rolling dice and tracking hit points is only the skeleton of the thing. The real magic lives in how you dress that skeleton up.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Most Terrifying Monster
Then they spent the next six months trying to catch a jewelry merchant, name Clyde. He was not possessed by a Rune God, nor a jeweler secretly summoning horrors from beyond the Doomgate. He was just a jeweler, an unpleasant little man who a hand cart with a bell. After that figured out that if he paid them something, they wouldn’t question the value of the rest.
Read MoreWords & Wonders: Edge of the Impossible
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. The heroes I was shown, the ones I feared for and cheered for, were action heroes. They faced impossible odds and walked away. Sometimes limping. Sometimes bleeding. But they walked away. That image never left me. It bled straight into the games I run and the settings I build.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Economy of Apocalypse
The Rune Gods want civilization in ashes. The dead refuse the courtesy of staying buried. Cockatrices leave gardens full of screaming statuary. Whole provinces sit one bad cult meeting away from becoming a demon’s playground.
Read MoreFrights & Fables: Dread with Trust
Here is the thing to understand first. Horror is not something you do to your table. It is something you build with them. The tension, the dread, the sweet cold shiver down the spine, all of it only works when everyone at the table has agreed to feel it together.
Read MoreWords & Wonders: Beyond the Screen
One of the things I’ve always appreciated about Words & Wonders is that it occasionally gives me the freedom to wander off the well-traveled road
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Drowning in Prep
here’s the secret every veteran GM eventually learns: your players will never read your lore bible, and you don’t need one to run a world that feels alive.
Read MoreFrights & Fables: Campaign Candy
No. Tonight, I am bringing you a simple tale that you can release against your gaming table. It is an adventure in the unbalancing campaign world of Dark Evolution.
Read MoreWords & Wonders: Wisdom of Janus
There was a time, not so very long ago, when this hobby of ours did not arrive fully assembled. It came to us in pieces. Hand-typed. Poorly stapled. Sometimes barely readable. Those early booklets carried the fingerprints…
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Villains you love to Hate
Now let’s talk about the person delivering that danger. Because here’s the truth every seasoned Game Master learns eventually: your players won’t remember…
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