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senses

Recently we discussed using Five Senses Descriptions in roleplaying games as a means to further create immersive environments for your players to explore on our podcast. This idea has been taken and run with by Benoit over at Roving Band of Misfits blog. You can read the post here. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 018: Play a New RPG and What Makes a Successful Roleplaying Game Book

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This week we talk about Play a New RPG (and Chocolate Coated Beer Marshmallows) and we discuss Roleplaying books and games in general, looking at some of our favourite editions and what we liked about them, and what made them, in our opinion, successful. We also discuss the desire for more widespread acceptance of PDF’s by the gaming industry as an addition to the purchase of regular books. Continue reading

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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Core Set vs Guides and Vaults

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition Cover

When getting started playing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (3rd edition), one of the early questions that you’ll face is which of the variety of core products you should buy. This used to be a simple question, as the Core set was the only option; however there is now a range of separate books (Guides), dice and component packs (Vaults), which provide a lot of overlap in content. In this post we will look at all the variety of boxed sets, core books, optional books, accessories, etc that you might want to use in your game. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 017: Do Rules Really Matter and Manipulating Character Generation as the GM

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In this episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we give an update on our All Flesh Must Be Eaten Campaign, we discuss Do Rules Really Matter and we investigate the topic of Manipulating Character Generation as one of the many roles of the GM. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 016: All Flesh Must Be Eaten First Impressions and Gamma World Review

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In this episode of the podcast we lament the pulling of the Mountains of Madness movie, we discuss the Play a New RPG Month project, we give a brief update on our game Goblins!, we discuss our initial impressions of the zombie horror survivor game All Flesh Must Be Eaten and we review Gamma World. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 015: Play a New RPG Month, Gamma World Initial Impressions & Using All 5 Senses in GM’ing

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This week we discuss our new project Play A New RPG Month, our initial impressions of Gamma World and Using All Five Senses in GM’ing. Continue reading

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Rolemaster Fantasy Roleplaying Game Review

Rolemaster Classic - Character Law

Rolemaster is a traditional fastasy roleplaying system, with tolkien style elves, dwarves, hobbits (I mean halflings), orcs etc. along with the usual selection of classes; fighters, thieves, wizards, healers, rangers, alchemists, martial artists and bards to name a few. It is high fantasy, with powerful magics, heroic characters doing amazing things yet somehow manages to also stay somewhat gritty – to this day still a somewhat unusual combination. Continue reading

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iPad review: Fabled Lands HD

The developers have delivered a sleek, stream-lined adventure, based on the first of six published Fabled Lands gamebooks, although some lingering issues persist. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 013: Rolemaster Roleplaying Game Review

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This episode of the podcast we discuss our experiences with playing Rolemaster Roleplaying Game by Iron Crown Enterprises. It’s one of those classics that has been around since 1980 in one form or another, and while many gamers have heard of it, few, it seems, have tried playing it. Continue reading

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Dice of Doom Podcast 012: Speeding up D&D4e Combat Using Morale, Star Wars Roleplaying Game (Saga Edition) review and Minecraft vs Dwarf Fortress

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In this interesting and exciting (and completely ‘yorp’ free) episode of the podcast we debate the virtues of Mincecraft vs Dwarf Fortress, we look at Speeding up D&D4e Combat by using Morale and we review the Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Saga Edition. Continue reading

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