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Ancient Scroll’s Secret Room: On Magic (or How Easy Solutions Can Spoil Your...
Slowly, a group of characters moves through the darkness of a dungeon. Blackness surrounds the PCs, someone stumbles, and the mage whispers “Let there be light.” Two seconds later a bright blue light...
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Supplement Review: Enemies of NeoExodus: The Folding Circle from LPJ Design
Ever since gamers went online and began publishing their own materials, it’s been truly astounding to see the diversity and creativity of some of those ideas. And when the PDF marketplace went crazy,...
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Supplement Review: The Shattered Blade Thieves: A Torn World Character Pack...
When I started GMing many moons ago, I always had a collection of running lists on paper. I’d have a vague picture of the setting in broad strokes, but not have all the details worked out before a...
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Strong-Arm Tactics: Daddy DM
There are many men my age who worry about what life will be like once children enter the picture. They fret over whether they will be able to raise them properly, whether they will be able to provide...
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Supplement Review: LaCroix: A Torn World Character Pack by Jack Cull and Torn...
Elves live what seems like forever in most RPGs. Yet unless we have elven PCs, we rarely encounter an individual elf more than a few times in a campaign, and never see the effects of age over decades...
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Supplement Review: Urban Dressing: Market Stalls by Brian Liberge for Raging...
Much of the fantasy campaigns I play in seem to take place in villages, towns, and cities, yet coming up with encounters in urban settings can sometimes be a pain in the rear. Shoot… Populating a town...
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The Gassy Gnoll: My Favorite NPCs (June RPG Blog Carnival)
As a GM, it’s your job to populate the world the PCs inhabit. This means not only defining the “where” that they live in, but also the “who” they interact with. A land with no people is deadly quiet...
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Supplement Review: Studies of Decay: Zombies by Kristofer Konkel from Rocks...
Zombies. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re here to stay. Personally I’m a big fan if they’re done well, whether they appear on the big screen, the small screen, in a book, or at the game table. So when I...
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Supplement Review: d30 Sandbox Companion by Richard J. LeBlanc, Jr. for New...
It’s been a long while now since I GM’ed regularly, but when I did I tended towards big, wide-open sandbox campaigns. Sometimes it got me into trouble as a GM where the players would get carried away,...
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The King is Dead, Long Live the King!
Tired of the status quo? As a GM, you have many powerful tools at your disposal to shake up the campaign. Here at the Front, I suggest that one of the most powerful of these is the death of a NPC. NPCs...
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