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Every tabletop RPG blog post ever written and published on this blog. Some RPG actual play reports, some RPG thoughts, some RPG artwork.
Note: All posts herein are arrayed latest first and earliest last.
Paper Minis: Edge of the Empire Beginner Game
So, since Star Wars Edge of the Empire role playing game core rulebook will be delayed another couple of months, many early adopters of the game will still be using the Beta rulebook and the Beginner Game boxed set to run their adventures. As previously stated, the boxed set has […]
Continue readingGOKL Escapes The Insurmountable Ned
Modesty Blazing 02 Escaping The Insurmountable Ned *** Earlier today I ran Star Wars Edge of the Empire for GOKL for the second time, using the Beginner Game truncated rules and extra stuff found on the internet. Everyone was given 10 XPs from the previous session with an option to […]
Continue readingNight’s Black Agents: The Eurovision Job Ends
And thus ends the Eurovision Song Contest Job where the company investigates a white supremacist terror group in Malmö, Sweden. This arc of the game took four sessions and in the final session, things go south for the group and then some. A game campaign recap can be found here, […]
Continue readingSWAG: Squeak, Claire and Dutch
I love it when children play RPGs. Their young imagination make any game soar. If there’s any way to help introverted children to help express themselves more and be better speakers, I would always recommend parents to run tabletop RPGs for them. This was why I immediately took this request […]
Continue readingBareBones Covert Ops: Rogue’s Gallery
What sort of enemies can you populate your BareBones Covert Ops campaign? What would you model your enemy organisation on? SPECTRE? SMERSH? HYDRA? Cobra? Here’s a visual example of enemies you can employ to hinder your heroes in your game.
Continue readingBareBones Fantasy: The TableTop Day Session
For International TableTop Day, I thought I’d run another a continuation of BareBones Fantasy RPG campaign for Irfan. Thus, Irfan’s Jake Hastur the halfling wizard and my GM-run NPC Finn Riverwyld the warrior-scholar go once more unto the breach in the city of Kingsbridge in the Keranak Kingdoms. The game […]
Continue readingSnivvian Long Distance Lovers
Derf requested a pair of Snivvian lovers for his Star Wars RPG campaign. He plays a Snivvian student on Coruscant who has a long-distance relationship with a holodrama scenist back on Cadomai. Painted in monochome digitally with MyPaint, and coloured using GIMP 2.8. Click here to check out the image […]
Continue readingThings To Do In BareBones Covert Ops
Here are more interior artwork for DwD Studios‘s upcoming BareBones Covert Ops RPG. Covert Ops allow players to be part of a crack covert team of agents – military or civilians – and do a bunch of spy stuff. For research, I saw some 007 movies, Mission: Impossible movies, Person […]
Continue readingNight’s Black Agents: Zlatan’s Story
This is not a full actual play report of the recent Night’s Black Agents session gamemastered by Kai, but it highlights one of the reasons why I roleplay. One of the many descriptions of a tabletop RPG is a cooperative storytelling game where the gamemaster (GM) sets up a story […]
Continue readingIssyka
Issyka is The Secret DM’s fantasy setting for a Play-by-Post game engine. Artwork commission for Issyka? Here you go: There is a hint of planetary romance with swapped gender tropes. Also, who is actually afraid of who in the drawing? The humans or the Illadon? Watch this space for more […]
Continue readingWestward Locations Artwork 2
This is the second of two blog posts featuring location artwork of cities and prefectures on the planet Westward, where human colonists have been marooned for centuries with only an exotic steam-powered technology to run their machines. Over the years, new politics, allegiances and social dynamics have driven the inhabitants […]
Continue readingWestward Locations Artwork 1
More Westward RPG artwork were commissioned by Wicked North Games, and for this batch they have ordered location artwork of various cities and prefectures on Westward. Here is the first of two posts of the locations on the (mostly) dry and arid planet of Westward! What adventures can players […]
Continue readingBareBones Covert Ops Archetypes
The hardworking guys over at DwD Studios are developing their own espionage, counter-intelligence and paramilitary game using its BareBones role-playing system. Here are the artwork for archetypes that can be used either as PCs or NPCs right out of the box. Each and any of these characters can be found […]
Continue readingVicious Crucible of the Villa Argentate
Here is part of a large panoramic artwork I made for Kallisti Press’s The Vicious Crucible of the Villa Argentate RPG. A bunch of other stuff is occurring in this walled city where the river divides it into the unbelievably rich section, the working class section and the dirt poor […]
Continue readingPaper Minis: Alien Fringers
It has been a while since I made Star Wars RPG paper minis. So, here is a PDF that features Wookiees, Aqualish, Rodians, Duros, Ithorians and Quarrens. You can use them as bounty hunters, mercenaries, smugglers, scouts, bodyguards, gunslingers or just a random guy on the street when the shooting […]
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