1. Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition
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... it was, well, meh. That's kind of how I feel about Forgotten Realms. I've been playing and running campaigns in the realms since 1989. I looked at Eberron but couldn't ever embrace it. Wi...

2. Interview with BtRL Team on Battlestar Galactica: Beyond the Red Line
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Battlestar Galactica, I love it, however the new rendition which will conclude its run next year elicits strong feelings one way or another. However I am a gamer and this is my search to find a

3. How to Design a Campaign World, Part II
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...sent to be successful: concept, scope, time, and goals. These aspects aren't just germaine to designing campaign worlds, but to any successful project, be it writing a poem, building an addition t...

4. How to Design a Campaign World, Part I
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Many DMs dream of designing their own campaign world. Some get started and come up with a great product. Others get started and stop almost as quickly because it's "just not working," or

5. Interview with John DiCamillo on "Starshatter: The Gathering Storm"
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The slow death of the space-sim genre has been pushed back a little farther with an update to the venerable game StarShatter. Why the Space-Sim genre is nearly extinct at all is another story, How

6. Review: Cityscape
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Travis gives a snapshot review of the new WotC title, Cityscape. Here's what he has to say: This book is the best source for creating a city from the ground up.  If there was a factor that n

7. Basic Guide to Tabletop Gaming: Player's Handbook
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In our first guide, BGtTG : Environment, we explained how the physical environment could influence the role playing atmosphere. Today we will explain the player's role in making a fun environment

8. Building a D&D NPC
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My current campaign has the party in the Silver Marches of Faerun, traveling to Silverymoon. I've introduced a couple of plot lines for antagonists including a dread necromancer with an army of un

9. Review: Dragon Magic
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Dragon magic introduces us to many new ways to uses dragons in the game as well as dragon spawns.  Some of these new ways include changes to a dragon’s breath weapon, new effects for fear c

10. Review: Dragons of Faerun
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As a DM, I like the Faerun setting a great deal. There is a great deal of diversity, a large amount of background information both in books and online, and it is a high magic setting, which gives good

11. Dr. Sho'Nuff
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The year was approximately 1990 or so and this new RPG was being release from FASA Corp. FASA Corp. was renowned for for releasing Battletech and its RPG addon MechWarrior many nights, and 85 tonne Ba