Category: Links & Resources

Son of Kryos Podcast #27: Given everyone screen time (an ongoing concern of mine). Playing RPGs online, such as over

Have you never GM’d? Have you GM’d only a little? Have you just be kinda curious about GMing and, along

My RPG flaws… people talking about their personal/gaming flaws in RPG-expressed terms. Funny, and very very recognizable.

Matt sez: We playtested Galactic again and it was awesome! Holy cripes it sounds like he really got the game

Story Games for Everybody – Bang!: A Roleplaying “Gateway” Game: Great discussion, full of observations I agree with. 🙂 Looking

Gametable: shared whiteboard/mapping/tactical space, plus die-rolling. Perfect tool to run alongside Skype, when your players are geographically dispersed.

BibliOdyssey: Illustrations from old books. That’s all it is, and it is mighty.

Monstrous.com – a big site about monsters

Front Cover for Galactic

Demo of Mortal Coil, in mp3 format, from GenCon; illustrates the game really well.

No-prep, quick-start play using the 400+ pulp extravaganza, Spirit of the Century? Yes.

Steampunk – via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I envy Paul Tevis’ upcoming gaming schedule. (Have Games, Will Travel #79)

How do you take an already great game and awesomeate it? Jungle Speed: Flower Power — The game comes in

strange maps, a fun blog with a ton of interesting bits on it, complete with — of course — maps.

Before the dawn of Time, all the creatures of the world came together for a great competition. The benefit to

How do you take a lame 80’s cartoon and make it incredibly awesome? Here’s one way: Marko Djurdjevic’s He-Man Redesign.

Looks about right. Considerably more useful: Merle Rasmussen’s mission flowchart from his designer notes for Top Secret.

Durham 3: Balancing “Real Life” and gaming — certainly, I get the point of the discussion. 🙂

Story Games for Everybody – Fixing Gaming Theory Terminology Once and For All Ansa dansa mo go fop is for

Have Games, Will Travel discusses Faery’s Tale, The Princes Kingdom, and “playing well with others.” Good stuff, as always, and

DM of the Rings — LotR as a tabletop game. Hi-larious.

London, 1895

Story Games – Your favourite online references.

Customized Playing Cards I totally want to do some customized cards for a game of Primetime Adventures or Savage Worlds.

Have Games, Will Travel #74 talks about Don’t Rest Your Head (dark “supers” in the vein of Dark City, Matrix,

Have Games, Will Travel — Go to #73. Play it. Skip to 11 minutes in and listen to him talking

Bully Pulpit’s Spreadshirt Store, with a number of fun Pemberton Panthercat shirts, and some fun “MURUB” (Copulate with this person!)

PodCast: Sons of Kryos (note: this is a sound file) Good stuff in this broadcast: * What to do when

Ron talks with Levi about his new system, The Exchange (which sounds cool, though maybe not as cool as The