A question for all those GMs out there, how much do you vary the climate your party moves through? If you’re like most (myself included) the answer is typically, “not much” or “not really.” I think there are two reasons for this: We don’t understand climatology. Nothing wrong there, most of us don’t need to…
In their latest installment of Save My Game, the folks at Wizards look at a difficult topic, campaign detail. I know first hand the perils of this very topic. As a GM, I find myself building campaign settings with an immense amount of detail, everything from cities and towns to NPCs to multiple plot lines…
Martin Ralya over at Treasure Tables is running a contest for guest posters. The topic of the contest is “What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned as a GM?” and the top three entries will be featured in a posting on the Treasure Tables blog. All entries will be added to the GM Wiki he…
I just received the following from Mark Havenner on the FRPGC mailing list. After careful deliberation on the perfect implementation, I am proud to say that the RPG Basilicus community is launched and I am eager to get the Free RPG community involved in it. As you may or may not know Basilicus (http://basilicus.wikia.org) is…
In my last post I mentioned that while there are a number of character sheets available I use a spreadsheet to track my character’s particulars. While it takes a bit of work upfront, the dividends are well worth it. With the way I’ve set things up making a change to an ability score adjusts other…
Wizards has released updated character sheets for use with their D&D system. If you use Tome of Magic, Tome of Battle or Dungeonscape you might want to stop by the webpage and check them out. In addition they’ve also posted the record sheet from the Magic Item Compendium. If you do download any of these…
