The Recycle Bin: Aberrant Nature and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Warning: This post will have spoilers about the larger My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic canon. Part 2 of My Little Pony Week here at RPGMusings is about horror. Well, maybe not specific instances of horror, like the film Event Horizon or Thief’s Return to the Cathedral level, or specific fears of PCs to let […]

3 Ways To Make The End Of The Arc Awesome

On Friday night my face-to-face 4e D&D group met for the final session of the current campaign arc. This session is the culmination of 9 months of play for this small group and after this we are adding two new players (one brand new to D&D and one new to 4e). The group is in […]

Opportunity Actions: Dwarves of Shallowgorge – Campaign Builder

Deciding that it’s never too soon to turn a compelling story into a game, I’m moving forward with a campaign model involving miners trapped in a collapse. I’m going to walk through my process, detailing elements that inspire me. My next post about this will be an actual campaign outline going from start to finish.

Opportunity Actions: A Thief is Vindicated

Lately, I’ve been noticing a trend in D&D/Role-Playing related materials, be they blogs, podcasts, and similar things. That trend is theft. Please don’t mistake me here. I’m not accusing anyone of plagiarism. It’s not that kind of theft. I mean theft in the sense that any story idea is available, and there’s no reason not […]