Or Friends Don’t Let GMs World Build Alone. I hate to use the phrase crowdsourcing in terms of world building but it’s mostly appropriate. Maybe better would be player-sourced world building. Well whatever we decide to call it I...
Writer’s Block Confessional This week when I sat down to write my blog my brain quit. I had too many ideas and no ideas. My ideas were like trying to catch the tide in your hands. Ideas would crash...
I’ve enjoyed doing the Weird Prompts in the past and I thought I’d revisit the concept once again. So without further ado here we go again, this time with a single campaign prompt. Way back in October, I...
As I began writing my blog two weeks ago I was certain it would be the last in this series for a while but it turned out there was more to discuss than I’d originally thought. The last blog...
When I started this series discussing using the setting of Golarion with other rules systems it was because I was looking towards the campaign I’d like to run for my group and adapting a Pathfinder AP to another game...
Welcome back to Burst of Insight, I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season and that your new year is starting on the right foot. Over the last several installments (Since mid-November) I’ve been chatting with you about Golarion...
Hurk hurt. The dwarf struggled to his feet and adjusted his grip on his axe. His vision blurred slightly and his ears still rung from the staggering blow he’d received from the stone giant’s hammer. Hurk grimaced dodging left....
Back in 2002, I had a friend who worked in a movie theater. Just before the official release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets he invited several of our friends to the staff’s late night screening of...
This is a blog post I’ve wanted to write for some time, I even touched on it briefly in my, Thoughts on Design post from this past May. Now, I finally decided to take the risk and post...
I’ve talked in the past about some of the elements of fear including isolation and powerlessness. Today we’re going to talk about the unknown. Specifically, how to leverage what the player’s don’t know about the monsters they encounter and...