"Why was I pushing this boulder up a mountain anyway?" - Sisyphus the Ant Over the course of the time I have been playing and running roleplaying games, I have spent time poring over countless rulebooks. Most of these were laid out quite well. Information was easy to find and tabulated in ways that were … Continue reading Making Leveling Up a Part of Your Narrative
Category: Cypher System
Review: Predation
I'm not sure that Shanna Germain can get any more aweso.... Wait... Dinosaurs, a major part of humanity's life since the announcement in 1842. From books, TV Shows, and Video Games to Movies, they inundated the world with roars, squeaks and images of what we believed their life was like. Then the year 2017 hit … Continue reading Review: Predation
Pacing Your Game
Pacing. It's not just for marathon runners... When you’ve been playing and running games as long as we have, you have likely seen it happen from both sides of the table. As a GM, you are sitting there watching the players stumble around trying to put together a puzzle that should be obvious with the … Continue reading Pacing Your Game
Review: Godforsaken
My first foray ever so many years ago... Fantasy. Ever since I was a boy and I first ran across some neighbors of mine sitting in the back of a pop-up camper one summer with a curious red box with a dragon on the front of it, I have bathed in classic Fantasy. From C.S. … Continue reading Review: Godforsaken
Flavoring Your Setting With Custom Types
By now, most of you have noticed that Josh and I have been tabletop roleplaying gamers for a long time. We’ve spent countless hours both behind the DM screen and in front of it. From Dungeons & Dragons to Shadowrun, numerous games in between, and now the Cypher System. In them all, we’ve tried to … Continue reading Flavoring Your Setting With Custom Types
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