Game Day: Battletech
Classic Battletech is an old favorite of my gaming group. A few years ago we flirted with the idea of a Battletech campaign using a variety of possible rules (Battletech A Time of War, Risus, Savage Worlds) but it never quite took off Instead most of our games have been one-shots at Nuke(m)Con or on game nights when we failed to reach critical mass for one of our RPG campaigns.
Old School-style character sheet for D&D 5th Edition https://rpgcharacters.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/fifth-edition-dungeons-dr... #rpg #dnd
The Black Campbell - For Hollow Earth Expedition: Airship SSSR-V6 https://blackcampbell.com/2016/10/11/for-hollow-earth-expedition-airship...
Game Day: Dragonborn of the Wilderlands
In prepping for my Saturday group's D&D 5e playtest I created a dragonborn paladin of Bahamut named Bharosh Goldenscales.
The group has been adventuring in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy and although this is mostly a mechanical playtest, I couldn't resist building out a backstory. That meant figuring out how the dragonborn might fit into one of D&D's oldest campaign settings.
Exquisite Corpse Dungeon: A mix-and-match dungeon project https://rthorm.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/the-exquisite-corpse-dungeon/ #rpg #dnd #mapping
The Savage Marvel Cinematic Universe specs out Iron Man, Ant-Man, Agent Carter, & more as Savage Worlds characters http://savagemcu.blogspot.com/
Game Day: Of Death and Polearms
After a few months of talking about the game, my monthly Saturday gaming group decided to give D&D 5th Edition a try. Rather than run a playtest campaign like the Blackrazors, our dungeon master is running us through a series of combat encounters at different levels. This lets everyone get a feel for the combat-centric rules and helps the DM get experience with encounter design.
How fair is that d20 you’ve been rolling? This mechanical dice roller can tell you (lots of assembling required) http://www.markfickett.com/stuff/artPage.php?id=389
Game Day: Updates from the Frontier
It's a funny thing to sit down to write your next adventure in a campaign and realize that somewhere along the line it went from "campaign" to "long-running campaign".
That's what happened with Obsidian Frontier, a sandbox-style campaign set in the World of Greyhawk. We launched it as a playtest campaign for D&D 5th Edition in October 2014. Two years and thirty-four sessions later, the playtest is still running, and the campaign's still going.
RPG Blog Carnival, Sept. 2016: Game Master Tools, Aids, Apps & Hacks https://roleplayingtips.com/rpg-blog-carnival/game-master-tools-aids-app... #rpg