This week I’m going to give you a selection (often weird) of background concepts as a companion to last week’s article about Writing Effective Character Backgrounds. For many, it’s the holiday season and I’m going to take this week…well...
Last Christmas (which was literally yesterday), I did a lot of thinking on the nature of gifts—specifically, why we give them. What I came up with is simple: usually, we gift people to show our appreciation, to show someone...
It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a Pathfinder RPG option is released that I go absolutely ga-ga for, and this month it happened. In a book I wrote for, no less! But before you start worrying...
Happy 2nd official day of Winter! We’ve short days and long nights complete with sub-zero temperatures here in the northeastern United States. With this being the last Behind the Screens of 2016, I thought it might be a good time...
Perram and Ryan close the year with a banter-filled episode talking about the state of Pathfinder as the see it, as well as reflecting on their own games and gaming thoughts.
Perram and Ryan close the year with a banter-filled episode talking about the state of Pathfinder as the see it, as well as reflecting on their own games and gaming thoughts.
Companies like Paizo have done a really good job of including a variety of people in their products. In non-Earth RPGs you don’t have the same ethnicities that you do on Earth, but often the people in those non-Earth...
Money—it literally makes worlds go round, be they the real world or fantasy worlds. When you get right to it, money as a societal construct is what allows us as a species to barter with one another on a...
With the holidays coming soon, ever do they loom, I bring to life a man from that beloved cartoon. The Nightmare Before Christmas from Mr. Tim Burton, a movie you’ve heard of, I’m ever so certain. It’s a movie filled...
Helping new GMs gain confidence and feel comfortable running games is one of my goals for this blog. The last few months has been a social minefield though and our community has needed some support that I felt I...