tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50501971738790550262024-03-12T19:06:32.632-04:00Notes of the Wandering AlchemistAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.comBlogger264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-43815589459223598102017-03-14T17:44:00.000-04:002017-03-14T17:44:32.480-04:00PAX Adventure 2017Conventions are great and I don't get to go to nearly enough of them. My wallet is very happy about this, but I still making it to PAX and make my wallet cry for mercy every time. For a few years it was a matter of building up my collection of board games and getting cards for games like Magic or the World of Warcraft game when it was a thing. Now its mostly directed towards RPGs. Well, I still Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-39257875758826303432017-03-06T19:48:00.001-05:002017-03-06T19:48:12.352-05:00Libris Monstrum #3: Worm That WalksWe are back with the third entry into the Libris Monstrum. This time I chose the subject, but next week I will be posting a Twitter poll looking for your input again. This week's monster is a creature I have always been fond of, mostly for the creep factor, but also for all the ways these creatures can exist.
Person Or Swarm?
The worm that walks is a crazy creature that is actually a lot of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-5713680426811447152017-03-01T16:26:00.000-05:002017-03-02T10:09:46.168-05:00Cracks of the Rift: Chapter Six
Chapter Six: A Dinner Party
By: Erin Rowan, The Untamed Scribe
Adapted from the Notes of Erin Rowan & John Crowley III
Based on the Characters from a Home Brew World in our Pathfinder RPG Campaign
Jolan Brightwind waited patiently for the strangers to enter the hall.
What could be taking so long?
“Again I will state my disagreement to this plan, Baron” the spymaster’s calm Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08718088565398008059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-63788720632088253622017-02-27T14:26:00.001-05:002017-02-27T14:26:22.519-05:00RPG Blog Carnival: Encounters & RewardsA few weeks ago I wrote an article for this month's Blog Carnival considering how encounters can be defined. Specifically, I discussed what an encounter is for me and why I categorize them in such away. Hint: it is all about rewards. You can find that article here, but the long and short of it is that I need three things to qualify an encounter: an event, an instigator, and effort. If all of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-8492229712602438252017-02-26T17:58:00.001-05:002017-02-26T17:58:23.076-05:00Updates And PrioritiesAs the Twitter-verse knows, I decided to avoid both Twitter and Facebook this week. I also ended up avoiding working on very much too. In fact I focused mostly getting through the long work week (February vacation for kids woohoo) and relaxing a little bit. Stuff I wanted to get done, I knew I would and so I decided to just focus on what I could. Which ended up being mostly nothing, so I focused Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-51769814439947309512017-02-20T15:26:00.001-05:002017-02-20T15:26:30.017-05:00New Luxarrah...Finally!Today I can finally say both intended episodes of Untamed Dice are out! First up is the finale of our Cat adventure, which came out yesterday. Then we have the next episode of the Luxarrah game.
Next week we will not have any episodes up, but I do hope to be in a position to get two up the following week. If not you will at least be able to look forward to the start of our Teenage Mutant Ninja Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-22103451607976829652017-02-18T14:39:00.001-05:002017-02-18T14:39:53.532-05:00Resources For Every GM: Reference Part 8Good afternoon everyone! Last week the Resources article got passed over, but I could not let that happen twice in a row. Today I have three reference books for you from my personal library that wouldn't be bad editions to your shelf. In fact, you might find these to be amazing books for your shelf even if you aren't a GM. Two of them are sort of a pair, but concern enough differences that I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-61600400233517565432017-02-16T19:19:00.001-05:002017-02-16T19:19:31.543-05:00Untamed Rant 5: StorytellingIt's a day late, but here it is, the 5th episode of the Untamed Rant!!
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-74122880919855078252017-02-13T13:18:00.003-05:002017-02-13T13:18:49.982-05:00Review: Cat By John WickHave you ever wondered why cats are such loving creatures, but also appear to be sadistic self-proclaimed overlords? I'm sure there are a lot of answers out there, like because they protect us from the dangers of ancient Egyptian undead. Anyways, John Wick has provided us a way to explore the answer to that question in the form of the role-playing game Cat: A Little Game About Little Heroes.
NowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-7047150951287796782017-02-11T12:27:00.003-05:002017-02-11T12:27:33.951-05:00Bad Weather and Power Outages Make It Hard To Technology....After a couple mild winters in terms of snow, here we are again sitting on that nice fine line of 25-40 degrees. We start with rain, get breaks of rain, but end up with hours of heavy, wet snow that piles up like crazy. That makes life a bit troublesome and hectic in February, which is already the shortest and generally most financially difficult. Add in 40 mph winds with gusts up to 80 (Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-20248866681754267442017-02-08T19:43:00.002-05:002017-02-08T19:43:51.277-05:00Libris Monstrum #2: The MimicWelcome back to the Libris Monstrum! Last time, I talked about nagas and their rich history within the myths of the real world. The incarnations of naga have remained pretty stable over the years, at least within D&D, but we will get back to naga later. Tonight, I want to talk about something that doesn't come from the real world: the mimic!
Why talk about the mimic? Because you asked me to,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-35453678266882737732017-02-06T13:07:00.001-05:002017-02-06T13:07:50.316-05:00RPG Blog Carnival: What Is An Encounter?The RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by Tabletop Terrors this month and features the topic of encounters. This will probably be the first of two submissions to that effort I will take, because it is a topic I have been concerning myself a lot with lately. To begin I am going to look at how I define encounters and why. Next time I'll go into how to extrapolate a variety of encounters from this Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-75436079095364913452017-02-05T12:08:00.000-05:002017-02-05T12:08:15.880-05:00Cat Episode 2!I had meant to get two new episodes of Untamed Dice out today, but lost the final edit on the Luxarrah episode. It will take a couple hours to do it again, so you folks will just have to wait until next week for a double dose of the show. Sorry 'bout that! For today, you can listen o our second episode of the Cat one-shot adventure.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-52421851399954208572017-02-01T11:29:00.000-05:002017-02-01T11:32:02.962-05:00Cracks of the Rift: Chapter Five
Chapter Five: Promises & Trust
By: Erin Rowan, The Untamed Scribe
Adapted from the Notes of Erin Rowan & John Crowley III
Based on the Characters from a Home Brew World in our Pathfinder RPG Campaign
Freya dressed as quickly as she could and joined the others. As the group was led through the halls to the Baron, the events of yesterday swirled in Freya’s head with her newly Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08718088565398008059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-23672085799019932982017-01-30T13:40:00.000-05:002017-01-30T13:40:37.724-05:00The Good Of D&D Streams & PodcastsA few weeks ago there was a surge in the discussion (on Twitter) about RPG streams and podcasts. The major start to this discussion was from the blog post by Goblin Stomper about Critical Role, and you can find that here. Another large piece of input to that discussion came from Terminally Nerdy's vlog about the subject which you can find here. The conversation derived from the initial Tweet is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-91138506491189686322017-01-29T12:06:00.001-05:002017-01-29T12:08:26.039-05:00Resources For Every GM: Settings Part 3I guess Sunday is becoming the regular day for these articles as I accidentally find myself writing them at the end of the week, but that's ok! Today I want to share with you three more setting to inspire you. Their links will take you to the wikis, mostly because most of you geeks will be vaguely familiar with them already. My goal today isn't to reveal new settings to look at, but to tell you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-40396146887288943392017-01-28T12:33:00.001-05:002017-01-28T12:33:48.776-05:00New Untamed Dice Featuring Cat And Luxarrah!Today we have two new episode of Untamed Dice for you to enjoy!
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-8706253327906092592017-01-27T12:17:00.001-05:002017-01-28T11:12:36.325-05:00Untamed Rant New Year's Special!A couple days later than intended but the New Years special resource episode of the Untamed Rant is uploaded! Check it out here!
UPDATE-here are those links I forgot yesterday
-http://www.sfwa.org/
-http://arcadia.net/Cruinne/DnD/Articles/worldbuilding.html
-http://inkarnate.com/
-https://www.dmsguild.com/
-https://slack.com/
-http://www.dmsupportgroup.com/
-http://tvtropes.org/
-http://Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-49882484543991924402017-01-24T17:48:00.000-05:002017-01-24T17:48:34.692-05:00Libris Monstrum #1: NagaWelcome to the very first entry in the Libris Monstrum! Here shall be a series of entries going over some of the most commonly included monsters in game manuals. But, no, I am not going to be going over things like dragons or goblins. At least not at first, because those monsters are not just included but staples of games like Dungeons & Dragons. My goal is to talk about the monsters that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-56154992911771672122017-01-22T13:46:00.001-05:002017-01-22T13:46:37.984-05:00Resources For Every GM: Rules & Supplements Part 7Greetings everyone! Today we get back to some core resources for your bookshelf. While these resources will be much more directed towards the Pathfinder or Dungeons & Dragons GM, they are pretty great book in general. The topic of this trio is equipment, especially weapons, because who doesn't need more diverse (or insane!) equipment??
Arms & Equipment Guide (3rd Edition D&D): I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-71627541753152823462017-01-21T12:21:00.002-05:002017-01-21T12:21:52.874-05:00It's A Trap!Episode 6 of our Luxarrah game is out and things are a little tense. A few hours (in game days) trying to escape from underground will do that to a party! Find out how the next leg of this journey goes in today's episode!
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-48596796944542029362017-01-19T16:05:00.001-05:002017-01-19T16:05:32.534-05:00Ideas For Future ArticlesHey everyone, I have been trying to figure out a direction for the articles that come out here and it is stumping me. I figure that, perhaps, writing out some of my ideas here will help me lock something down. For a long time I had a bit of a schedule of release, trying to get something up five days a week. It kept me steady and kept me going regularly, but it ended up being too much, as you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-76748720478555726402017-01-16T10:23:00.003-05:002017-01-16T10:23:33.613-05:00Running My First Published Campaign And Killing EveryoneDespite many years of playing Dungeons & Dragons, and other table top games, I have never actually run a published adventure or campaign. I have come close to doing so, taken pretty direct inspiration from them, but never held one with the intent of following that story directly. Not until Curse of Strahd came out last year.
We introduced a couple new players to D&D using Death House Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-47057180375746729172017-01-14T11:57:00.002-05:002017-01-14T11:57:49.778-05:00New Untamed Dice!Today brings you Episode 5 of our Luxarrah campaign!! I also want to mention a worry I have after the Rant debacle this month. While the audio isn't bad, we did run into the realization that it recorded via the notebook mic, not the good one. I know why now, and it is probably because the audio in and audio out selections are right next to each other. I would have made the wrong switch to our Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5050197173879055026.post-1235353560791333922017-01-12T21:18:00.000-05:002017-01-12T21:18:18.787-05:00Resources For Every GM: Internet Part 8 / Audio Part 1This week's resources article is another internet trio, despite the fact that I wanted to get away form that group for a little while. Two problems with that though. First, I really wanted to finally get around to throwing up three audio resources. Background music has really helped games for me in the best, and I know it helps a lot of other tables enjoy their games. The second problem is the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052791654043600641noreply@blogger.com0