Announcement: RPG Blog Alliance Open For Business
Greetings Fellow Bloggers and Podcasters,I'm happy to announce the official opening of the RPG Blog Alliance. The RPGBA is the start of new Blog Community for RPG related Blogs and Podcasts. Like many...
View ArticleSeason 4 Episode 15 - And the Winner Will Be...
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 15 of RPG CircusEpisode TopicsENnie Award Predictions 2012 HostsJeffBrianGeorgeShow LinksHero Games Announces Champions CompleteEnnie Awards
View ArticleUp in the Morning with the Rising GenCon 2012
One of the things I like about waking up early is seeing the city start to creep out of it's slumber. On the first day of GenCon 2012, one also gets to see the Convention Hall slowly come to life....
View ArticleWeekly Blog Posts
Greetings. I want to let everyone know that after a long hard internal debate, I've decided that we will start posting some blog posts. Right now, we are looking at trying to get one in a week. This...
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Why Tweak an Established Setting?
Let's face it as a game master in a busy world, we don't have a lot of time to always come up with our own setting. To our rescue many times is the established setting. Sometimes even, the game has...
View ArticleWe Know What They Are Already....
The other day I purchased a new game for my PS3. I grabbed a pocket knife, cut the plastic, and eventually, like an otter shucking an oyster, opened the jewel case. Inside the glossy booklet that came...
View ArticleThe Art of the Lie in RPGs
Over six months ago, I was playing in a spy game. That in itself is not a big deal, what was a big deal was the art of the simple lie. A strange phone call comes in, my character answers. The NPC A (on...
View ArticleYou Got Your Rapier Stuck in My Fantasy
Stop me if you heard this before, a heavily armored warrior faces the foul creature with a two-handed sword. All the while the lightly armored rogue sneaks up behind the creature with his trusty...
View ArticleCombat Good, Grammar Bad
Though I am an English teacher by trade, in real life, I don’t drop grammar bombs on my peers. If one of my buddies says “I” when he means “me,” I don’t flinch. When mom talks about how she’s “laying...
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The One Shot Game!
As gamers, one thing we hate is when we can't play. Especially, when it's not something that we have control over. For example, the my GM that is running the current Pathfinder game can not run for the...
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Player Response to Deadlands.
A few weeks ago, I posted that I was going to be running a few one-shot games using the Savage Worlds rules. I gave the players an options of settings based on what adventures I had available. I didn't...
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Converting Adventures is Not So Easy
As a gamemaster, I am sure that we all have had adventures that we loved to run. Some that we have played many times with many different groups over a long period of time. Then one day a sad thing...
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Are Games Broken?
If the title seems a little inflammatory, I'm sorry this was something I was pondering this morning. Over at Zach's RPG Blog II, I made a comment on how all games were broken. Something that one...
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RPG Circus and the New Year
Greetings and Salutations listeners and readers of RPG Circus,It is hard to believe but here we will be starting Season 5 next week. Which means of course that we been around four and half years. I am...
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Birthdays and the Aging of Characters
With my birthday being this month, like most people I start to think about how old I actually am. Being a gaming, this also got me to think about the aging of characters. After all, if a character...
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Dreams of Electric Sheep!
I find it interesting that there seems to be a resurgence in my interest Cyberpunk. While I know that there have been Cyberpunk genre games out there, it seems there has been a lot of Cyberpunk...
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Season 5 Episode 2 - Who's Afraid of Character Death
Welcome to Season 5 Episode 2 of RPG CircusEpisode TopicsNot Being Afraid of Character DeathGetting Campaign Information Out to Players HostsJeffBrianShow LinksPathfinder MMO Kickstarter is...
View ArticleTrying to Restart a Stalled Group
Well, I haven't posted something in a few weeks and it's time for to start up again. This week, I would like to talk about something that is currently happening for me personally. the need to restart a...
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RPG Blog Carnival: Let's Show a Little Love for Spacemaster!
It's been a while since I've posted a blog entry but thought I would jump on this month's Blog Carnival to get back started into do a blog weekly. It was really a hard choice. After all this month's...
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Player Reception to Old School Gamma World!
Recently, I had to reform my gaming group. You see after our Christmas hiatus, we found that we didn't have enough people anymore. This was due to players moving or having changes in their job...
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