A Fighter, A Wizard and a Bard walk into a bar . . . .

No, there’s no punchline coming, and to be honest there wasn’t a bar but there was a fighter, wizard, and bard involved – played by my three children. That’s right the next generation of my clan has started their journey into role-playing games and it was both a high point and a low point so…

Build your campaign world with your players

Gamemasters everywhere enjoy creating their campaign worlds from naming people and places to coming up with maps. It’s considered by some a badge of honor, a rite of passage – but why should the GM have all the fun? What if there was a way to include your players when you sat down to build…

Filling the Empty Chair [Review]

It happens to all of us, we move, our friends move, college ends, the list goes on and it always leads to that most dreaded of all opponents at the gaming table . . . . The empty chair. To slay just that opponent I would suggested heading over to RoleplayingTips.com and picking up a…

Five Tools for Creating While on the Run

In the recent edition of the Roleplaying Tips Weekly E-Zine (#456 Stress-Free Gaming and Time and Character Advancement in PbEM) there was a reader tip submitted title Creating While Commuting which discussed using a 3G enabled phone to create the shell information for encounters and such while traveling instead of trying to lug your laptop…

Basilicus is Home of All Laveaux Projects

Basilicus is Home of All Laveaux Projects Gnarus Arcani MCMXLVII and Progressive RPG, both DMN projects are now at home with Basilicus at http://basilicus.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page. This is the culmination of a larger vision wherein one site can be the single location for all fictional needs including world-building, role playing, writing, etc. See the whole article for…

Thought about making your own RPG?

UPDATE: The site for this group has gone offline. If you know of a similar group please mention it in the notes below. I’m sure at some point or another most of us have given some thought to making our own role-playing game because after all most of us have said at least once, “this…