Advanced Gaming & Theory

I am irritated. The news says that Google+ was a failure, even though many of us prefer it. I suppose that if you place it up against Facebook, then everything is a failure. I happened to LOVE ...

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(This article was written as part of Murkhill's Week-long celebration of Dave Arneson . Click the link to find more great articles!) Like many other Dungeon Masters, I had never heard of Dave A...

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We wrapped up the Second Season of Ravenloft: Masque of the Red Death, and we can now get started on a project that I have been REALLY looking forward to; our own world! If Gothic Earth has taugh...

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An interesting article has popped up over at Shane Plays about how TSR had a "Code of Ethics" that might be of interest to you. Go ahead and pop on over there and give it a read, I'll wait here....

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Hey there Party People! Just popping in to say that I'm not dead, though we did have to cancel the last session because of the Flu, which was a bummer. So what have I been up to while not upd...

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>  > Last nights game was all about movement. The party got out of > Switzerland and their search for Fu Manchu and the Sacred Spirit > Blade has finally had a brea...

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There are camps in the RPG community, those that prefer to campaign, and those that don't. Where did the idea of campaigning start? The answer is that its roots go back to wargames, and I can se...

http://advancedgaming-theory.blogspot.com/2017/09/speculation-on-wargames-biggest.html

I had gotten some excellent advice from our friend Scott Anderson , I had designed an overly precise flaw to the dungeon, and none of us were really paying attention to the game. So, we had to ...

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Well, last weeks game had some major issues and ended up falling apart. Technically, everybody died, but there were things going on beyond our ability to control. It was horrible. Nobody had th...

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On the GOOGLE+ community Literary Role Playing Game Society , our Friend, Vb Wyrde from Ethos RPG made an interesting comment the other day in regards to Game of Thrones, I responded and have...

http://advancedgaming-theory.blogspot.com/2017/08/game-of-thrones-le-morte-darthur.html

When I was a teen the world was a different place. My generation was one where we excepted the freedom of blacks, my grandfather hadn't yet, but he learned. Now the folks who are homosexual ...

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In our last game of the summer, we lost a character. As DM I get rather fond of them, and I am always attempted to cheat, but that just isn't the way that this game works. Most character deaths...

http://advancedgaming-theory.blogspot.com/2017/07/gothic-earth-session-11-legend-of-zudet.html

I've never been all that happy with the wizard class, specifically in regards to Weapon Proficiency. At Level 20 they have FOUR slots. This is fine! This isn't my problem, the problem is th...

http://advancedgaming-theory.blogspot.com/2017/07/wizards-weapons-fixed-with-wave-of-wand.html

I forgot to jot down my notes from last game. I made up a quick play session out in the fringe of the village, blatantly ripping off one of my favorite movies, The Witch. They were able to defe...

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The Rug Merchant: Arnedeo Simonetti There is a class in D&D that your players aren't necessarily interested in playing, but they are a big piece of what makes our worlds work. THE MERCHANT C...

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Joan of Arc Oaks Spalding, over at Save vs. All Wands has been discussing an article written by a lunatic with too many readers and a rather low opinion of women. I think that there is some...

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Albrecht Dürer - Cupid the Honey Thief. 1514 Since adopting more elements from OD&D into my gaming, a style that is less skill based and more player driven, I've noticed that many of my fel...

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The cool thing about having a Blog is that it allows you to go back in time and see how your thoughts and opinions about things have changed. G+ User, Stan has gone back into my archives and c...

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Forgotten Arts & Crafts, Wilderness Survival Guides, American Indian crafts and Depression Methods are among my favorite Non-Fiction Book Subjects. Simple living comes in handy regardless of in...

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via Pinterest Played last weekend and it was fantastic! The players didn't know what to do next, session 9 had been an intense investigation that ended with a conclusion. They had no leads ...

http://advancedgaming-theory.blogspot.com/2017/05/gothic-earth-session-10-return-to.html

I am working on an article now, and it isn't ready. I do, however, like to try and post something at least once a week, this will be one of those free writing, unedited, first-draft things, so co...

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Half way through reading Robert J. Kuntz's book, DAVE ARNESON'S TRUE GENIUS, I wrote the following response on the Ruins of Murkhill BBS > You have, I feel, given the best definition�...

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Via Pinterest This session report is mostly about game design; we tried something new and the players got a ton of work done. I've tried a couple of times to write up the notes into some lin...

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Folks around here hate the word “BALANCE ”, and I get it, there is no movement with balance. I myself am on the record as stating, “When the players can try anything, there is no such thi...

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Youtuber Kevin Mason recently did a video on a subject that got me thinking, I encourage you to watch it, he identifies several styles of DMing and discusses the positive and the negative aspec...

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