A Review of Mutants & Machine-guns

What Is It? Mutants & Machine-guns is an eight page post-apocalyptic role playing game from Experimental Playground. EP has been around for quite a few years now making print and play board games, but this is their first attempt at an RPG. Like EP's many board games, Mutants & Machine-guns is a completely free download and available in...

Categories: Experimental Playground, Free RPG, mutants and machineguns, post-apocalypse, Review

Experimenting With Wild Magic in Dungeon World

Last session we playtested a class that I have been working on for Dungeon World, the Wild Mage. A friend from out of town is taking on the role for a couple of weeks while he is visiting and he ran with the idea. Without further preamble, here are the wild magic highlights from the session. Capturing Mist The first major use of wild magic in the game came early on. The adventurers were investigating...

Categories: Dungeon World, fantasy, Magic, session report, Wild Magic

Campaign Pitch: The Dungeon Apocalypse

I enjoyed putting together my last campaign pitch, so here is another one that brings dungeon crawling to a broken Earth. This pitch is inspired by the tradition of megadungeons and what little I know of a Japanese RPG called Meikyuu Kingdom. The Dungeon Apocalypse People thought they knew what what the apocalypse would be, that they were ready...

Categories: Campaign Pitch, d20 modern, Dungeon Apocalypse, megadungeon, meikyuu kingdom, post-apocalypse

Flipping through FolkLore

F'olkLore appeared on my radar late last week and since it bills itself as a simple fantasy RPG with only a $1 price tag I knew that I would have to take a look. What Is It? FolkLore is an ultralight fantasy RPG from Seth Zaloudek. It weighs in at four half pages in total. I say half pages because the author's intent is for the game to be folded...

Categories: fantasy, FolkLore RPG, Review, Seth Zaloudek, Ultralight RPGs

Monday Monster: Deadwood Fungus

Anybody that has taken a look at Seedfall will know I have a thing for killer plants. Here's another one for you. View this monster on DW Codex. I used this monster during my last game and, to be honest, it wasn't as much fun as I had hoped. Once the players realized it was a plant and it couldn't chase them they just ran away...

Categories: deadwood fungus, Dungeon World, fantasy, fungus, killer plants, monday monster, monster

Halfling Name Generator

It has been a few weeks since my last name generator and today I am finishing off the short races with a halfling name generator. I used a mix of hobbit, middle english and paizo halfling names to seed the generator and added some things into the gaps that felt like they would fit. I am also trying something a little bit differently in how I handle the name generation, but I doubt many of you are...

Categories: fantasy, generators, golarion, halflings, javascript, middle earth, names