by Will Hindmarch | May 14, 2011 | Musing, RPGs, Story
(In the interest of posting more often around here, I’m going to spend some time sharing rough thoughts and sketches of ideas, rather than aiming wholly and solely for breakthroughs and finished essays. This is a blog, after all.) Can an RPG be made GM-proof? Is...
by Will Hindmarch | May 13, 2011 | Creativity, Fantasy, Freelancing, RPGs
[“As Darkness Rises,” by Noah Bradley, © Wizards of the Coast] Will here. A couple of weeks ago, I had a short article published in Dungeon Magazine #189 part of D&D Insider—my first official piece for Dungeons & Dragons, like, ever. (You need a...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 31, 2011 | Fantasy, Music, RPGs
In my most recent D&D campaign, The Northsea Saga, I chose to wear a lot of my inspirations on my sleeve. The thrust of the campaign was essentially this: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings meets Brian Wood’s Northlanders comic book. Humanity, all...
by Will Hindmarch | Mar 25, 2011 | Music, RPGs
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while: write about the music I use during RPG play. Until I got the green light to write about it for The Escapist, I wasn’t sure anyone wanted to hear about this. Now that I’ve gotten a start to...
by Jeff Tidball | Mar 11, 2011 | Accessories, RPGs, Writing
A couple of months ago, I was bitching publicly on Twitter about having forgotten my copy of The Everyone Everywhere List at home, bemoaning that there was no PDF edition of this extensive set of names broken down by ethnicity. Josh Rensch to the rescue: He’s a...
by Will Hindmarch | Feb 17, 2011 | Fan Culture, RPGs, Websites
This was on BoingBoing, so maybe you’ve seen it already. This is a collection of handmade dungeon maps and notes for D&D campaigns, crafted back in the 1980s. Maybe you’ve had this happen yourself. You find a manila folder (or Trapper Keeper or...
