Andrew Marlowe

30 April

Burst of Insight—More Mysterious Magic Items

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One of my personal complaints with fantasy RPGs is that sometimes magical treasure loses its wonder. Take Pathfinder for example. Some magical treasures are almost required to meet the game’s balance expectations. Even within the context of the world...

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16 April

Burst of Insight—More About Writing Backstories (or Not)

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On this network’s flagship podcast, Ryan and Perram had a lively discussion about backgrounds. Their conversation touched on things I’ve been thinking about lately as well so I figured why not examine a few of those things as a...

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02 April

Burst of Insight-Starting with Minor Magic Items

Written by Andrew Marlowe

It has never been cooler to play RPGs than it is right now. This is due to several factors beginning with the mainstream acceptance of geek and nerd culture but it doesn’t end there. Vocal celebrity support of the...

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19 March

Burst of Insight—Crowd-Sourced World Building

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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...

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05 March

Burst of Insight—Double Feature: Writer’s Block Confessional and more Weird for Your Campaign

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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...

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19 February

Burst of Insight—Weird Campaign Prompt, The City of the Dead

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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...

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05 February

Burst of Insight—Golarion Without Pathfinder, part 6

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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...

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22 January

Burst of Insight—Golarion Without Pathfinder, part 5

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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...

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08 January

Burst of Insight-Golarion without Pathfinder, part 4

Written by Andrew Marlowe

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...

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11 December

Burst of Insight—Golarion without Pathfinder, part 3

Written by Andrew Marlowe

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....

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