19
Sep/2008

by CynthiaCM

I wish the great gods of gaming would grant me more time in a day. You see, for the last year and a half, I've been setting all of the Shadowrun games I run in a city of my own creation. Well, not exactly my own creation. I was raised in a podunk little town here in Kansas called Chetopa. It had 1700 people in it and it was as boring as hell. I also spent a lot of time during my teenage years in the neighboring town, Oswego. It was only slightly larger and equally boring.
 
So, I... Read More

07
Sep/2008

by stormofswords

Ok, so I've sent out a bunch of campaign ideas to the players:  short, 1 paragraph or less summaries of what the campaign would be centered around - what the characters would actually DO.  I've gotten responses from the players about which ones they each personally like best.  In the meantime of course I kept on creating new ideas...One I'm partial to right now is the Strigany.  The Strigany are the Warhammer world version of gypsies. Their homeland destroyed in the distant p... Read More

01
Sep/2008

by stormofswords

Ok.  So, my last campaign, a White Wolf Mage game, imploded when I got the hint that my players wanted to play that new fangled 4e thing rather than Mage.  Imagine that.  Alright. I can deal.  So now I'm busily at work trying to come up with a new campaign while another GM runs us through a 4e FR game.  I think I've decided on Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay.(WFRP)  My group definately has a fantasy genre bent so it's best to give them what they like.  I'm toying wi... Read More

25
Aug/2008

by StupidSmurf

As promised in my previous blog entry, this one deals with how I approach a campaign, design an adventure, and what my characteristic quirks are. We had our first session of our newest campaign this past Saturday (Recap to come later), so since I have campagin design fresh in my mind, let's jump in!

When I start planning a campaign (and we're talking D&D here), I usually ask myself three questions:
"What have I already done?"
"What do my players like?"
"How can I take th... Read More

21
Aug/2008

by StupidSmurf

With the summer down to its last third, it's time for our gaming group to reset. Having sort-of finished the Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign super-module, it's time to get back to our regular favorite, D&D (3.5 of course), in our favorite setting, Forgotten Realms.

(speaking of Forgotten Realms, even though I already knew a bunch of stuff about what was happening with the Realms in 4.0, I decided "what the hell" and thumbed through a copy of the 4.0 Realms hardcover yesterday when I bo... Read More