One of my favorite genre of video games is the platformer. Various game series like Mario and Kirby include some of my favorite games of all time. Alongside these great games was another great platformer: Donkey Kong Country. This...
Plot twists and surprises are a hallmark of narrative storytelling, but they can be tricky in a game environment. An author or GM doesn’t have complete control over when a plot twist will reveal itself, depending on the actions...
First off, a special thanks to Monica for letting me use her blog to share my feelings with you today. One of the reasons I love role-playing games so much is that you get to pretend to be all...
I’m fighting a bit of a bug so I thought I’d tackle something lighter today. Back in February, I presented eight…well, ultimately ten weird prompts for GMs. It was a fun exercise worth revisiting and a not too complex...
Over the millenia, creatures have had their share of beliefs that closely follow the process of life to death. When contacted to create a moon retreat for a religion that completes the circle from death back to life World...
Welcome to Iconic Design! Paizo’s third hardcover for Starfinder, Starfinder RPG: Pact Worlds, has a surprising amount of cool new content for players hidden in its pages, and one of the most significant places that this lies in is...
Last time on the Starfinder edition of Monstrous Physique, I headed back to the Citadel to keep statting up more aliens from the awesome game series. This week is no difference. As I feel like I’m a kind of...
GM like a PM is a new, three-part series that introduces Project Management concepts to RPGs to facilitate our job as Game Masters. The second installment is about reviewing sessions to verify that player and Game Master goals are...
We’ve all had it happen at least once. Your character died before their prime. They still had so much left to accomplish and so many feats left to pick up. Let’s talk about how we can make character death...
Hi, my name is James and welcome to Code/Switch. Today I want to talk about Starfinder and generations. When I say generation, I don’t mean family generations but cohort generations. Generation X and the Greatest Generation are examples of...