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Back in 2005, I set about the task of creating a city called Argenford in one of my game worlds – I drew half of it, created 10′-per-square maps of city parks and significant streets, wrote descriptions of various personalities, … Continue reading →

PC Generation: When running a game I think one of the most important things that the players like is their characters. Everything builds from that point on. That said, it doesn’t mean that you should give in to every request, … Continue reading →

Just to give you a sense of things to come, have a look at the following wild surge table produced by the infamous Lothlorien Van Ness, my (amazing) wife. Whenever childhood toy memes, deadly and cuddly anthropomorphic cartoon characters, or … Continue reading →

I stumbled across this blog article while wandering across the electroscapes of the net: Dave Who? Arneson Gameday Celebrates Other D&D Creator. For those of you who have never heard of Dave Arneson, he's rather like the Edward de Vere … Continue reading →

I offer the universe a new English gaming term: Hyperpaucidity: a Game Mastering (or Dungeon Mastering) disorder in which the in-game environment is unusually and painfully spartan and lacking, particularly in ambient technology and potential treasures. I'm sure you've been … Continue reading →

Welcome to the home of the Cinematic System, an open-source 3.5 D&D expansion! Here you will find all sorts of gaming debitage direct from the archives of Michael Van Ness [and Matt Enga], including wild magic tables, random-rolling charts, odd … Continue reading →