Every GM has experienced a time when players zigged and the GM needed them to zag. Today, we discuss ways to help keep the players wanting to dance to the GM’s drum.
As promised this week we’ll talk about race and class in a Maze-based campaign, but not as I originally anticipated. Originally, I thought I’d be presenting a gestalt class-race rules-set instead I’m going to talk about pre-generated player characters....
As you might know, I started GMing my first Adventure Path a few months ago. Currently, I’m running Strange Aeons, which has been very new and exciting for me. Prior to this, I’ve only played in the first three...
Today, we travel into one of the deepest and most dangerous caverns an adventurer can ever find herself: the dragon lair! This week’s map is very simple. It’s a big place to have an enormous, tough fight, worthy of...
Some thoughts on Total Party Kills from guest blogger Ryan Costello now that he’s been on both sides of the board for a (near) TPK. As I mentioned in yesterday’s Keyword Design, our last Hell’s Rebel session was savage....
In Keyword Design, I use a single word as inspiration for a mundane item, a magic item, a feat, a spell, and a class option. Today’s word is “resilience” as suggested by Aaron. Of all the synonyms for toughness,...
Paizo recently announced a Book of the Damned hardcover for the Pathfinder RPG line, and we have questions. Luckily, Paizo’s Creative Director James Jacobs will join us to provide some answers!
Express your unpopular opinions about Pathfinder’s balance, mechanics, or community in a haiku. from Pathfinder_RPG A friend of mine turned me on to this older Reddit thread filled with Haikus about Pathfinder. I like the thread, but it’s mostly...
I’ve been a World of Warcraft player since 2007, and since the Burning Crusade came out in 2008, my main character has been a Protection Paladin. (I was a mage before that, but stomping across the shattered world of...
I’ve been playing the latest Zelda game, Breath of the Wild non-stop since it’s release. (Over 90 hours logged so far!) With all that Zelda in my life, it’s only right that I present some Zelda related content here....