Daily RPG Blog Roll

Back at the start of April, I wrote about my inability to replay the old AD&D computer game, Pool of Radiance. The difficulty lay primarily in its user interface, which was clunky and difficult to use on a contemporary computer. Likewise, the graphics, which looked fine on the screen in the late 198

My Aurikesh campaign has its own player species – I wrote new mechanics for humans and goblins, and wrote several new species. Only the githyanki PC uses D&D’s official mechanics. One of these new species is kagandi, who are lightly reptilian humanoids. In the narrative they’re as common and “defaul

Morrus and Jessica talk with Rob Heinsoo about 13th Age 2nd Edition

Chagrinspire cutaway was different to my sketchesThe second chagrinspire volume is on my patreon up now - its a draft and bigger than I wanted but I knew it wasn't going to be finished but it's bigger than I expected at 110 pages.Will update the book this week after some other commitments with some

I gave the the Shadowdark adventure generators a turn to create a session for my Friday night open game. Whenever folk ask about adventure generators it is one that comes up alongside Worlds Without Number and Knave 2e. The Shadowdark one is quite terrain tied with a lot of it being in the 'quest' a

One of the most valuable tools for a Night’s Black Agents GM to have behind their screen is the Agent Tracking Sheet. As with similar sheets from other GUMSHOE games, this tracking sheet allows you to record the ratings for all of the PCs’ investigation abilities. USING THE SHEET In most RPGs, I g

• The Iron Llama is painting Car Wars 3d printed minis. And painting them in horrifying interesting ways. - I don't think I'd be a good GM for it, but rewatching The Wild Bunch recently made me really have an interest in running an "Old West" campaign set way, way too late to be the Old West. Like

This is a community submitted press release. Do you love trans and queer art, Actual Play, and raising money for great causes? Then have we got a webfest for you! Come celebrate Pride with us at Rainbow Roll Fest, an online webfest that exists to celebrate and honor innovation and achievements in th

"More than any other class, the ranger is a new class."

New Questing Beast Releases!Knave 2e, Summer’s End, and the print edition of Maze Rats are all publicly available now, along with the Knave 2e poster and patch! Get the PDFs at DriveThruRPG, or physical copies at Swordfish Islands. I also have flip-through videos of Knave 2e and Summer’s End so you

The 2024 Player's Handbook arrives September 17, but you can immediately unlock digital preorder bonuses for your D&D Beyond account today! Learn about these preorder bonuses and others here!

This is a community submitted press release.In response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Jesthehuman is hosting a TTRPG charity auction with support from 19 creators to support Save the Children’s “Children’s Emergency Fund.” Save the Children's team in the occupied Palestinian territory has be

Dave Jones is too nice to be in a virtual interview with me, largely because he makes me want to be nice. More upsetting is the fact that it works! Through sheer geniality, Jones’ good guy persona becomes infectious and goddammit, now I just want to make Mister Halsin’s Voice Actor proud of me. So f

This is a community submitted press release.Pantsless Tables, a TTRPG Actual Play studio based in India, dedicated to promoting Asian talent, is thrilled to announce the commencement of their highly anticipated 48 - um, now 52-hour charity event today. The event aims to raise funds for Trans Lifelin

This is a community submitted press release. Built on the well-known Powered By The Apocalypse framework, Trilogy is a GM-led game that works best with 3-6 players, including the GM. Although it takes inspiration from other games in that family, it marks itself out as a game designed for telling a w

This is a community submitted press releaseA megablock of capsule apartments, ruined amenities, gangs, and mysteries. A city with The City. Some residents have never left. Some make things you cannot find anywhere else. Most are desperate. The corpos and cops call it Stack #95563. But everyone who l

This is a community submitted press release. Do you mourn more for the final pages of a book than any tragedy within? Do you find yourself wishing for just one more foray into the worlds that you’ve fallen in love with? Fear not, adventurer - we have the show for you! Who’s Taking Watch is a new Dun

The revised Ranger from the 2024 Player's Handbook makes greater use of their trademark spell Hunter's Mark, get spellcasting earlier, and a lot more. Get a first look here!

In the latest episode of their cotton candy podcast, Ken and Robin talk encouraging player independence, the discovery of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts, a fluffy planet, and Florida nephilim.

In this video, Neal Litherland delves into the liminal horror of Changeling the Lost. The post The Liminal Horror of Changeling The Lost first appeared on Azukail Games.

Intelligent alien creatures such as aboleths, as well as the occasional mad wizard or capricious deity enjoy tinkering with creatures to make them more suited for their environments or just as a thought exercise. Then the PCs have to go out and fight things like owlbears or chimeras. Doesn’t it

Scavengers’ Deep – Map 8 (300 dpi promo) The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. Generally, the elves only built underground when hiding their breeding and research facilities, whereas the forces of the kingdoms, assisted

Some great GM tips today from our fellow GMs around the world. But before I share those, I wanted to remind Wizards of Adventure that our monthly GMing Q&A call happens in two days: this Saturday, 12pm Mountain. Get the call link and more details here. Let me, and your fellow smart GMs, help you […]

My ongoing mission: read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to Crisis! This week, I'm looking at the comics at newsstands on the week of July 7, 1983. There was a freebie this week, DC Sampler #1. It has no real story in it, just two-page ads for DC Comics and all comics that are alrea

Introduction So I was asked by @arms to write about the party roles and how each class would fit into them. As I am an enjoyer of Advanced Fifth Edition as opposed to other forms, I will be couching my discussion in such language, but I feel confident that you can work out who’s who very easily if y

Planning in RPGs is not a fun activity, so don’t do it. Planning in RPGs is necessary so that we don’t get our characters killed. Both of those statements are true. The optimal way planning should work in your game is somewhere in the middle of those two statements. The optimal way is a combination

I'd like to see a traditional fantasy rpg with magic like this:Podmore picked up his fork and stood it on its end. Snaith stood, stepped over to the shelf behind Arthur’s head, and picked up a sharp knife. Moving by instinct, Arthur reached out and knocked over Snaith’s wine-glass. Snaith slipped o

[This is a repost of something I wrote almost four years ago. Last night, I found myself thinking about space suits in science fiction RPGs and decided to write a post about it. As usual, I soon realized I'd done it before. Rather than abandon the idea, I thought I'd repost this, since its initial a

I try to be entirely honest in my online posts. While I don’t talk about every aspect of my life (there’s a reason y’all don’t get pictures of my meals unless I have flavored with Mtn Dew something that should not be flavored with Mtn Dew); I am often open about my mental health struggles, my ongo

Paizo released information on in-person and online events

"The paramount collector of spells."

This is a community submitted press release.Long ago, before our world, there was another.How much are you willing to invest in a world that is going to be destroyed? When you have already seen the end, been cursed with the prophets foresight, can you truly do your best to struggle against the force

The upcoming 2nd edition of 13th Age updates the rules, tweaks the classes, gives lots of useful Icon-related advice – and murders the poor Orc Lord. It’s up to you how the Orc Lord perished in your campaign. The Eyes of the Stone Thief campaign does make quite a few references to the Orc Lord, but

People are always looking for suggestions of GMless games to try, so I decided it was time to harness the collective brainpower and make a list. But not just a plain list of names: actual descriptions and recommendations from people who have played the game, so curious folks can decide for themselve

This is a community submitted press release.EUphoria (can be alternatively pronounced as "EU", referring to the European Union or Europe* as a whole, and "phoria"), has announced its inauguration on 26 June as,Follow EUphoria on your social media platform of choice"A place dedicated to the best and

There’s a new Bundle of Holding out with my work in it. Except instead of my previous contributions to the OSR Bundles, the whole bundle is all Dyson all the time. The complete bundle features both of my classic Dyson’s Delves books, the three annual cartographic reviews, three annual commercial

We added condition rules to Fantasy AGE 2nd Edition and Cthulhu Awakens to simplify the various strange and alarming things that can happen to Player Characters, their friends, and their enemies. Slowed my magic? Confused by a psychic attack? Frightened by gore—or cosmic horror? These now have set

The Summer Sale is now live on itch.io. All our paid supplements have 30% off individually, or the entire range can be bought for $59, reduced from $103.68. Click here to see them. The post Itch.io Summer Sale 2024 first appeared on Azukail Games.

The new version of the Wizard in the 2024 Player's Handbook brings flexible spellcasting to a new level! Make better use of your spellbook, swap spells more easily, and specialize in certain magic schools with revised subclasses!

A game master can be creative with weirdness. You can create completely new monsters, magic items, and adventure situations. Another way to be creative is to take the things we already have and use them in ways that subvert expectations while fitting within the constraints of the game rules and th