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Category Archives: Role Playing Games
Dice of Doom Podcast 033: Spirit of the Century Review, Dragon Warriors First Impressions and Do Rules Support Descriptive Combat
In this episode of the Dice of Doom podcast we review Spirit of the Century, talking about our experiences with stunts and aspects. We also discuss our first impressions of playing Dragon Warriors which is a flashback from our gaming past. As part of our discussion on Dragon Warriors we get sidetracked (egads! who would have seen that coming!) and we spend quite a bit of time discussing how rules describe combat, should they describe combat? and whether it’s up to the players to look after that aspect of the game or not. Continue reading
Posted in Podcasts, Role Playing Games Tagged d&d, Dave Morris, dragon warriors, dungeons & dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, sotc, spirit of the century 8 Comments
I recently had the very good fortune to appear as a guest on the Roving Band of Misfits Level Up Podcast in a bonus episode to discuss the Play a New RPG project. A lot of fun was had by all. Click on through to the Roving Band of Misfits site to listen to the show. Continue reading
Dismemberment and Permanent Injuries in D&D
We recently had a great question on Twitter by IvPalmer: “Have you guys ever came across a dismemberment case in D&D? A player lost an arm last session and I’d like to give him options.” As it happens, yes, we have, and, like you, we wondered what exactly to do about it. The rules don’t give an answer… or do they? Continue reading
Posted in Dungeons & Dragons, Gaming, Role Playing Games Tagged d&d, dnd, dungeons & dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, house rules, rpg 24 Comments
Dice of Doom Podcast 032: Riddles and Puzzles in RPGs, Favourite Components of RPGs, Dice and Randomness in Games
In this episode we discuss using riddles and puzzles in your roleplaying games, our favourite components of RPGs, are dice important and is a linear or bell curve of randomness more ‘heroic’? Continue reading
Posted in Podcasts, Role Playing Games Tagged dice, dnd, dungeons & dragons, Dungeons and Dragons, puzzles, randomness, riddles 6 Comments
Play a New RPG Month
After finding out how enjoyable and fun it was to play so many different games, we decided we would start a new project. So today we are announcing Play a New RPG Month. OK, we’ve been talking about it on the podcast for ages, but this is the hard, do it now, get out there and make it happen, announcement. We want to encourage as many gaming groups as we can to break the routine and try out something new. If you are a group that already plays a lot of games, we’d still like you to join us. Let’s make a big show of it and see what happens. Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, Meta, Role Playing Games Tagged gaming, Meta, PANRPG, playanewrpg, Roleplaying, rpg 3 Comments
Dice of Doom Podcast 031: Refocusing a Game that has Lost its Way, Should a GM Controlling HP in Combat and The Role of the GM
In this episode we talk about ways to get a game back on track, we answer a question “Could a GM control the HPs of the players in a game to promote better roleplaying?”, and we summarise our thoughts on the role of the GM. Continue reading
Posted in Dungeons & Dragons, Podcasts, Role Playing Games, Spirit of the Century Tagged d&d, dnd, dungeons & dragons, GMing, sotc 3 Comments
Symatt draws Toki and Oinkers for me…
Symatt brings one of my favourite characters that I used to play in a D&D 3.5 campaign years ago to life. Continue reading
Posted in Dungeons & Dragons, Gaming Art, Role Playing Games Tagged art, character portraits, countersketch, drawing, symatt, toki and oinkers 1 Comment
GURPS Review
We’ve been keen to play GURPS for many, many, many years now and the Grand Gaming Experiment gave us the opportunity to give it a shot. So with all this anticipation and excitement, did it live up to our expectations? Continue reading
Posted in Gaming, GURPS, Role Playing Games Tagged GURPS, reviews, Roleplaying, rpg, sjgames, Steve Jackson 31 Comments
Our good friend and all round good guy The Angry DM is running a competition on his site in a most interesting fashion. To win the prize you need to solve a puzzle given in the form of a script from a gaming table. All the clues are present in the conversations of the players and GM. You need to piece together what the party should have done to solve the riddle. Continue reading
Symatt draws Cthulhu for us as part of his CounterSketch project
Being quite the fans of the writings of HP Lovecraft around here, when regular reader and all round nice guy Symatt asked us to suggest a topic for one of his amazing CounterSketches there really was only one thing we could say. Cthulhu. It would just have to be Cthulhu… Continue reading
Posted in Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Role Playing Games Tagged art, Cthulhu, drawing, HP Lovecraft, Lovecraft, symatt 6 Comments
