Snow covered cemetery

Realms of Rylon Postmortem – The Ugly

So far I’ve covered the good, and the bad, so now I’m going to cover the ugly. These are the things that I felt went from bad to worse, and on some level I think contributed to the ending of the campaign. These are also the items that seemed to come up time and again…

Snow covered cemetery

Realms of Rylon Postmortem – The Good

This is the second post in my series – be sure to check out the first post, Realms of Rylon – The Postmortem. When most folks start out reviewing something they’ve done, there seems to be an instinctive need to focus on those aspects that might seem negative or needing improvement, so I’ve decided to…

Snow covered cemetery

Realms of Rylon – The Postmortem

I mentioned in my post Prepping for a New Game that instead of starting by diving right into the creation process for my next campaign I was going to do a postmortem, or review, of my last campaign The Realms of Rylon or Rylon for short. Here we are three months later, so I figured I…

Add Some Spice – Add a Holiday

For those of you that celebrate it, Happy Easter! Today is a day to spend with family and enjoy the company – you are going to do that right? I thought I would be remiss if I didn’t give you something role-playing related today to think about so why not give some consideration to the…

Campaign Information Overload

Campaign Information Overload

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…

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…