Category Archives: Role Playing Games

Dismemberment and Permanent Injuries in D&D

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Ellisthion
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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 →

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Dice of Doom Podcast 032: Riddles and Puzzles in RPGs, Favourite Components of RPGs, Dice and Randomness in Games

Posted on September 7, 2011 by RupertG
Dice of Doom Podcast

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 →

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Play a New RPG Month

Posted on September 6, 2011 by RupertG
PANRPG-Banner-Large

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 →

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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

Posted on August 31, 2011 by RupertG
Dice of Doom Podcast

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 →

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Symatt draws Toki and Oinkers for me…

Posted on August 30, 2011 by RupertG
Toki and Oinkers by Symatt for his CounterSketch project

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 →

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GURPS Review

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Ellisthion
GURPS 4th Edition Basic Set Book Cover

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 →

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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 →

Posted on August 23, 2011 by RupertG | 14 Comments

Symatt draws Cthulhu for us as part of his CounterSketch project

Posted on August 17, 2011 by RupertG
Drawing of Cthulhu

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 →

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DoD-Logo-Aside

For those of you who read our blog regularly or listen to our podcast, you’ll know that we’re quite fond of the occasional horror roleplaying game. Turns out the guys at Gaming Tonic have a similar penchant. Check out their post on Setting the Stage for a night of horror roleplaying. Continue reading →

Posted on August 16, 2011 by RupertG | Leave a comment

Dice of Doom Podcast 030: Dealing with a bad GM, running short and long term games and tabletop accessories

Posted on August 15, 2011 by RupertG
Dice of Doom Podcast

In this action packed episode of the podcast we discuss ways in which to deal with a bad GM (mostly by talking about what NOT to do…), the differences we’ve experienced in running short term games as part of our gaming experiment vs the normal long term games that are usually played and we answer questions about gaming accessories and dice from Donny on our Facebook page and Symatt on Twitter. Continue reading →

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