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Posts tagged ‘gm don’t list’. GM Don’t List #1: Morphing Reality. August 7th, 2015. I got back from Gencon yesterday. All in all, I had a really great time, picked up a bunch of cool stuff, and then came home to find a stack of Kickstarter games on my front porch. (Which I’m referring to as Gencon Twelfth Night now that it’s happened three times in a row.). But I did run into something of a bad streak of luck this year when it came to actually. GM DON’T #1: MORPHING REALITY. There’s nothing more frustrat...

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The Alexandrian » The Art of Pacing

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The Art of Pacing. July 15th, 2013. Roleplaying games are a relatively new medium. And like most fresh-faced mediums, this means that a lot of advice given for creating and using the medium is being borrowed from existing mediums. It also means that most of this advice is wrong. Because the similarities between the old and new mediums is usually a lot more superficial than it may initially appear. (For example, it took decades before screenplays fully stopped mimicking theatrical scripts.). As if you wer...

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The Alexandrian » Opening Your Game Table

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Opening Your Game Table. January 13th, 2011. When I first started playing roleplaying games, way back in elementary school, I used to play RPGs. As I got older, of course, gaming became a bit scarcer. There were times when I didn’t have anyone to play with at all. But even when I did, it became tougher to coordinate schedules; tougher to find the free time even in my own schedule. And I figured that was just the way things had to be. As we get older, after all, time becomes more precious. THE WAY WE PLAY.

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The Alexandrian » The Art of Rulings

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The Art of Rulings. March 29th, 2011. In response to the Update from the Crypt of Luan Phien. Out of curiosity, do you rely solely on the players expertise when developing maps or do you use some form of skill checks to indicate a character expertise in determining what is going on with an unusual map situation like this one? First, I prefer to use systems which offer broad mechanical support for GM rulings. Some people prefer pure GM fiat. But I like having a mechanical base to make rulings from because:.

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The Alexandrian » GM Don’t List #1: Morphing Reality

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GM Don’t List #1: Morphing Reality. August 7th, 2015. I got back from Gencon yesterday. All in all, I had a really great time, picked up a bunch of cool stuff, and then came home to find a stack of Kickstarter games on my front porch. (Which I’m referring to as Gencon Twelfth Night now that it’s happened three times in a row.). But I did run into something of a bad streak of luck this year when it came to actually. GM DON’T #1: MORPHING REALITY. Okay, we run out the other door! There’s nothing more frust...

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PATRONS OF THE ALEXANDRIAN. In the dusk of 2014, I launched a Patreon that would allow me to focus more of my professional time on creating content for the Alexandrian. I’d like to take a moment to thank all of my patrons and to recognize the nifty things which have been created with their support. If you enjoy the long-form essays. And awesome game resources. Dia and Nate Thorn. Even the smallest of pledges can add up to wondrous things. ROLEPLAYING GAMES Gamemastery 101. Ptolus: Shadow of the Spire.

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The Alexandrian » Justin’s House Rules for OD&D

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Justin’s House Rules for OD&D. September 17th, 2011. Not quite as auspicious as Gary Gygax’s house rules. But these are the house rules we’ve developed as part of my Thracian Hexcrawl open table campaign. Volume 1: Men and Magic. I have on the table. 2d6, take highest. 2d6, take lowest. Short Bow: 2d6, take lowest. Composite Bow: 2d6, take highest. Heavy Crossbow: 2d6, take highest. Not wearing a helmet inflicts a -1 penalty to Armor Class. Shields Shall Be Splintered. Magic Shields vs. Spells. In additi...

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The Alexandrian » Rules vs. Rulings?

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Rules vs. Rulings? March 9th, 2009. I’m calling shenanigans. That the difference between “new school” and “old school” gaming is “rules, not rulings”. The free Lulu PDF. A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming. Seems to be a primary infection point and I don’t think we’ll go too far wrong by quoting it:. There are several problems with this meme. The Spot and Search skills tend to get targeted a lot by people trying to explicate the “rules, not rulings” concept. For example, the. And the “new school&#...

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The Alexandrian » Roleplaying Games vs. Storytelling Games

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Roleplaying Games vs. Storytelling Games. May 18th, 2011. For the first couple decades after D&D, virtually all roleplaying games looked fundamentally similar: There was a GM who controlled the game world, there were players who each controlled a single character (or occasionally a small stable of characters which all “belonged” to them), and actions were resolved using diced mechanics. For example, people got tired of referring to “games that are a lot like. Before we begin looking at how games like.

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Archive for the ‘Roleplaying Games’ category. Eternal Lies – German Translation. August 25th, 2016. Go to Eternal Lies: The Alexandrian Remix. Tim Höregott is providing a German translation of both the Alexandrian Remix of. And the system cheat sheet. He will not be translating the handouts (he intends to use the originals), but will be translating all the various guides and cheat sheets. (If anyone else is interested in translating the handouts, please feel free to contact me.). Listen to the Gods.