Getting In Your Own Brain’s Face – Making Knowledge and Other Passive Skills Active
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a guideline on when the players should reach for the dice in a roleplaying game – when the momentum in your game’s world …
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Back In the Hobby for 12 Months: What Have I Learned?
On Saturday, May the 4th, 2019, I ran the “Mountaintop Rescue” adventure in the Star Wars: Force and Destiny Beginner Game for the folks of the Clubhouse Collective in Mooroobool. …
Hobbying with ALIEN: A Planet and some Space Trucker jobs
“Planet” is being generous. Penthos is a planetoid, a rockball a little larger than Luna and a touch smaller than Mercury, orbiting an F-type star. Still, it has an atmosphere, …
Are You In The World’s Face? Rolling the Dice in an RPG Session
We RPG geeks often debate the value of dice in roleplaying games, especially ones where characters are given lots of options relating to rolling them. A while back, I wrote …
How to set Hope’s Last Day up in Roll20
Roll20 is a great resource for people who want to enjoy a tabletop roleplaying game session but cannot physically get together with their fellow hobbyists. It’s a virtual tabletop application …
It’s Been A Long Road: A Short History of the Star Trek Universe (to 2370)
As a game master of a tabletop roleplaying game, it’s my ongoing job to present a world of adventure for the folks who are joining in to explore and, well, …
ALIEN: Self-Isolation
Okay, come on, folks. Fox? Sega? Creative Assembly? Anyone? No one? Fine then: Whipped this up last night and wanted to get it posted sooner rather than later. Here’s hoping …
ALIEN Campaign Hook: Van Leuwen’s Agents
This is posted for you to use as you wish. It came out in a blurt of writing on Wednesday night. It first went up on a private group dedicated …
It’s Okay to be a Horror Character
On the afternoon of Saturday, February 29th, I ran A L I E N: The Roleplaying Game for four mates. I game mastered the “Hope’s Last Day” cinematic scenario in …
Rob Getting Rob Organised: January – March 2020
As part of my organising system, there’s a “Current Quarter” list from which I move items into the weekly, and then daily lists to get done. I haven’t really thought …