RPG Blog: In-Depth Reviews, Free RPG Goodies and More

RPG Blog, run by Zachary Houghton, is a great place to find thorough RPG reviews, interviews, gaming news and links to free products (among other things).

Zachary (who is also a moderator on TT’s GMing Q&A Forum) is tireless, upbeat and friendly, and his enthusiasm is infectuous. RPG Blog is a pleasure to read, and there’s plenty of good stuff there for GMs — I highly recommend it.

Descriptions for Your Dungeons

Bits of Darkness: Dungeons II has just been published by Tabletop Adventures, and it offers a bevy of ready-to-use flavor text for any fantasy campaign.

I wrote 99 Splinters of the Senses — single sentences of flavor text you can add to any existing room description — for this one, and I’m curious to see if they’re useful to GMs.

GMing Q&A Forum Contest and GMing Profiles

The Treasure Tables GMing Q&A Forum kicked off two events yesterday: A project and a new contest.

The project is called GMing Profiles, and it’s essentially a mini-interview for GMs. The idea is to learn a bit more about GMs from around the world (and hear their favorite GMing tips).

To celebrate the GMing Profiles project, we launched the GMing Q&A Forum Membership Contest. The contest is ridiculously easy to enter, and the prizes are badass.

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Prep-Light RPGs?

I flipped through the Savage Worlds RPG while I was at my local gaming store yesterday, and was interested to see that Savage Worlds bills itself as requiring very little prep, and shifts the traditional GM/player roles a little bit. This got me to thinking about prep-light RPGs in general.

What prep-light systems are out there, and what makes them prep-light?

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A Work-Intensive Approach to GMing

Warlord Ralts offers up GMing advice based on his work- and time-intensive GMing style. It won’t work for everyone (especially GMs who aren’t fond of prep), but there are some gems in this thread — like creating a notebook with a section for each PC, and writing notes about that character after every session.

Free Sci-Fi Adventure PDF

Harsh Realities is hosting Fate of the Terra Ariel (2MB PDF), a free adventure for the Savage Worlds RPG . It features a nifty colony ship and the bones of a mini-setting, and it should be pretty simple to convert to other game systems. (Via RPGnet.)

Origins Awards, Relevancy and GMing Awards (GMing Awards?)

The 2006 Origins Awards nominees were “announced” a few days ago, and the Origins Awards seem less relevant than ever.

In light of that, and because it sounds like a fun idea in its own right, should there be Treasure Tables GMing awards?

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Fantasy Adventure Generator

Clinton Nixon has used Vincent Baker’s Cheap and Cheesy Fantasy Game to create a nifty online adventure generator.

Reloading the page generates a new set of random adventure elements, and they’re surprisingly evocative and interesting. (Update: Now with a lengthy example from Vincent.)

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