I like equipping my characters. Selecting character gear and accoutrements is way of exploring the material culture of the game-world, and...

Social Rank in Flashing Blades is a significant part of the game's intended reward system ; more than a means of 'keeping score,...

I've written about my approach to social skills and roleplaying , the significance of non-player character attributes , and a new npc at...

So far, I've written about my approach to social skills and roleplaying , the significance of non-player character attributes , and a ne...

On Wednesday I wrote about one of the pitfalls associated with using a player character's ability or skill score as the target number fo...

After a thirteen year hiatus from roleplaying games, I got interested again shortly after the release of 3e D&D . I was never much of a ...

A recent thread on theRPGsite asks the question, "Karma, action points, extra dice/points are they a sign of a weak system[?]. I fir...

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. - Nasruddin ( attributed ) Most experience systems in roleplayi...

Pop quiz, hotshot. What do Santa Claus, Vito Corleone, and Emperor Palpatine have in common? I channeled all of them while roleplaying Car...

Flashing Blades ' maritime supplement, High Seas , introduces rules for creating characters such as pirates and sailors and their career...

As described yesterday , random encounters "represent the 'living world' which the adventurers inhabit, serving up a variety of...

The talented Paul at Blog of Holding has a post on two-weapon fighting that is, judging from the heading, ostensibly for 4e D&D , but l...

Author's note: By request, I am re-running my posts on the cape-and-sword endgame. Originally posted over several weeks, I'm re-pos...

A couple of additional notes on mundane monsters . The bite of an anaconda, big cat, or crocodilian causes serious damage (+ 1D6) on a rol...

Wentyard felt his flesh crawl as he made his way through those dim chambers. The moonlight glinted down through vines tangled across the bro...

Now someone's finally done something about it. Friend of the blog Bren at RPG Net created a nifty weather table for use with his Hon...

En Garde! the 'little brown book' of cape-and-sword roleplaying games , began life as a set of tabletop miniature skirmish rules bu...