Category: RPG aids
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Sometimes I use music to get myself into the mood for a session, not so much when I’m DMing (which I find a little distracting) as when I am preparing the atmosphere. Of late I have had occasion to drop the characters into the middle of a war zone, and in preparing the mood for…
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It’s been a long time (maybe 7 years) since I did any role-playing in a world of my own creation, with its own maps and such like. I really enjoy making the maps – the last map I made involved a light table I scavenged from somewhere, a contour map and an attempt at redrawing…
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For the last year or so while living in Japan I have been running a role-playing campaign set in the Fourth Age of Middle Earth, a time ripe with possibilities for adventure. Unfortunately, my Japanese is not good enough to role-play in that language, and Japanese role-players are rare (especially in a country town). This…
Compromise and Conceit 