Hey everyone,
Hey guys, we're streaming Kingmaker episode 17 this friday evening (right now!). Come join us by clicking the livestream button at the top of the page.
It has been a few days since our last session of Kingmaker and I have been lax in remarking on a most remarkable event that occurred during the game. One of the PCs, Yurris met his end at the hands of a vicious troll. Character death is an RPG topic that has been done to death. Teehee. But, I still wanted to bring up a few of my thoughts on it.
I've lost this post twice now, and because I'm a huge idiot, here I am writing it a third time, because I can't possibly remember to save it. I've accumulated a small but substantial collection of things I'd like to share today, one thanks to Facebook, one because of reddit, and one that I hadn't considered sharing but seems like a good idea since I spend time there pretty regularly.
Geek and Sundry
This is a super site! It's still a work in progress, but it will be an awesome collection of shows on the interwebs. The Guild is the one we are all familiar with, and while not usually directly RPG related it is supremely geeky. Wil Wheaton's offering has me super jazzed, where he collects cool people together and does tremendously nerdy things with them. Like Dinner for Five, but with D&D. I'm not kidding when I say that I subscribed to this everywhere, even the tweeters.
RPGLife.com's Maps
What a delightful resource for the online roleplayer, or the offline roleplayer with too much printer ink. This is a collection of user uploaded maps for a huge number of situations. I personally love the buildings, boats, and outdoor maps, since they are mostly non-specific. I'll be yoinking these maps and dumping them into our google hangouts I'm almost sure of it. I hate drawing boats! Thanks Reddit for hooking me up with this, you are such a pal.
RPG.net's Actual Play Forum
I know, RPG.net is tremendously popular, and the actual play forum probably gets a lot of read, but this is for people who haven't yet been there or passed it over. The forum is for people to recount the adventures they have in an episodic format via forum post. I visit mostly because I like getting a feel for the way a setting or system flows. I like knowing how other people play in the same systems I do. The stories are neat too, and that helps. Special mention reserved for DaveB's actual play threads, for telling incredibly detailed and awesome stories.
-Lee
Hello,
Hey everyone. We will be live-streaming Lee's pathfinder game at 4pm PST today! This high-magic game is wild, bizarre, and a crap-ton of fun.
Welcome to Episode 20 of the House Rule Podcast!
We have content!
Mage: the Awakening Imperial Mysteries has dropped and we have tons to talk about!
This humble book adds heaps to the game and we are going to do a First Read and give you some juicy bits and a quick review of the book.
Its enough to fill a half dozen episode but we squeeze the best of it into this one show!
We will catch you next time!
Hey everyone!
To anybody who has paid our little blog (or podcast) any attention it should be no surprise that I've been following the RPG Superstar contest that Paizo is running. It actually drew my attention one week after entries could be submitted, which made me all kinds of sadface, however it has proved to be entertaining to read all the submissions by the top 32! I love me a good magic item and the round one entries did not disappoint! I might yoink a few of them for my own nefarious purposes, or just borrow some of the concepts for the wacky items I make up.
But as much as I love reading the submissions, I love reading the commentary even more. It gives keen insight into not only the selection process, but also the way professional game devs think about things. I highly recommend browsing the list of entries for things that grab your attention (or browsing all of them, they are all interesting) and then reading what the devs have to say about them. It'll be getting even better in the near future as the competition heats up and we get to the really awesome stuff like monsters and eventually and entire module!
-Lee
