Raggi youtube episode 1
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Plan for A-Z challenge ready
I was supposed to take a nap, but instead started to think about upcoming A-Z blogging challenge of April. I am so excited about it. Last year I had some scheduling problems and some posts delayed... This year I will do it better, *with three posts per letter, per day*. And I got themes now. Last year it was this and that like flea-market collection. But this year, my A-Z challenge themes for each letter are: 1. LotFP and other traditional fantasy game stuffs. 2. Random table 3. General resources, material and thoughts. That's right. Each day (except Sundays, *except first Sunday, wh... more »
Interview: James Edward Raggi IV
*James Edward Raggi IV* is author of *Lamentations Of The Flame Princess*roleplaying game, several successful adventures and publisher of roleplaying material. You can find James in his blog ( http://lotfp.blogspot.com/) and website (http://www.lotfp.com/RPG/). He also runs his own webstore of roleplaying games material ( http://www.lotfp.com/store/ ). For me personally Lamentations Of The Flame Princess was the game what ignited the spark (more like bonfire!) of OSR and andventure fantasy gaming. Naturally, I wanted to interview him. So here it is, my questions for James Edward Raggi...more »
When you don't want to roll HD
Don't want to roll HD for enemies? There is a simple way to handle HD. Usually in monster statistics there is average of hit points for HD marked. Or you can simply calculate it. Without rolling HD you can easily assign them. 25% of maximum hit points for weak enemies 50% of maximum for normal enemies 75% of maximum to strong enemies 100% of maximum for bosses and really powerful enemies. Weakling orcs (1HD) would have 2 hp, when normal orcs have 4. Seasoned warrior orcs would have 6 hp and orc chief would have 8. Simple and fast.
[OSR and D&D3.x] Thoughts about alternative HD
I think character hit dice and monster HD work fine for certain type of games. But still I think about other solutions and alternatives. It doesn't necessarily mean I am seeking for better or other way to work things out but am interested in thinking how things could be done otherwise. I was reading this topic at rpg.net and got few ideas from it. These ideas I write here are more or less my own and mainly influenced by the topic I linked here. *Hit Points Rolled Before Encounter* * * One idea is, that if character is fully rested he rolls his hit points before the combat encounter.... more »
Player's comfort zone
As I started playing with beginner I started to think I have to find out his comfort zone. I have played with my girlfriend and I know what she is okay with and what is too much. I will rate these questions from 1 to 3. 1: No way! 2. Okay with it if it's in good taste. 3. BRING IT ON Basic questions will be: *Religion* Is player ok if religion (real-life or fantasy) is present in game. How much religion and pantheon can be dealed in campaign? Is religion for any reason uncomfortable topic for player? *Sex* Can there be sexual themes? Could player character have sex with other chara... more »
IndieGoGo campaign for LotFP adventures
*What is The Monolith from Beyond Space and Time?* The Monolith from beyond Space and Time is a 32 page A5-size adventure written for the LotFP Weird Fantasy Role-Playing Grindhouse Edition game, but also directly compatible with other "Old School Renaissance" systems and the classic 70s and 80s games that spawned them. The adventure is written by James Edward Raggi IV with additional material by Kenneth Hite, with all artwork done by Aeron Alfrey. The adventure is a wild one. Suitable for use in absolutely any campaign world, suitable for character levels 0-∞, absolutely any GM can ...more »
[LotFP] Beginners first EVER rpg session
I ran LotFP for first-timer using Google Documents. We both had priviledges to modify it and the gaming texts were written there. We used also msn for rules and off-game conversation. This was a success! I enjoyed it and liked how my first-timer adapted roleplaying. Also he enjoyed it. We played in Finnish so I have to translate the game here. This is how it went with comments from me. CHAPTER 0 *Beginning of the game: Your character is a traveller. It doesn't matter where he comes or where he is heading to. He walks his own path. As a Magic-User he hasn't found his place in society... more »
[Shared post] Holmes character creation as a dungeon map
This is so cool I just had to share it (I include picture in this post): http://blueboxerrebellion.blogspot.com/2012/01/infographic-holmes-character-creation.html Also go and read this post from *The Mule Abides* blog where I found this picture: http://muleabides.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/everything-is-flowcharts/#comment-4826 By Doug @ Blue Box Rebellion
Starting to play LotFP with my online friend
When I played mmorpg Perfect World I met new people. Even though I haven't played PW for a long time I still have some friends left from that time. One of them I am good friends with. He has never played traditional rpgs but I have talked about them quite a lot. He has created a character for my YDIN game and knows the basics. We were planning that I'd run him YDIN test game but it never happened. Yesterday I talked with him in msn and asked if he would like to play Lamentations of the Flame Princess with me and it was ok. How will we do it? I got this idea using Google documents. I... more »
Got my copy of Isle of the Unknown
Ordered it last Thursday morning, got it today. 7 days from order and I am now a proud owner of Isle of the Unknown. I also got PDF version of it and couldn't help but check it out also. IotU is really colorful product. Art is great, layout is good. It is really nice product with hard covers. I also tossed that extra 5 EUR to the price and got this fabric-type map of the isle and also two sided poster with expanded cover art on the other side and big map on the other. The poster looks awesome. Isle of the Unknown hard-cover book, poster and map.
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