Treasure Tables is on hiatus as of December 13th, 2007 -- after two years of daily posts, I needed a break. If you're looking for GMing material, I have two recommendations: the hundreds of posts in TT's archives, and my new project, the multi-author GMing blog Gnome Stew. Happy GMing! -- Martin

RPG Blog II, Obsidian Portal, The Groovecast, TT Photos

Thu. August 30, 2007 

For today’s roundup, four markedly different GMing links:

• RPG Blog II: After closing the original RPG Blog due to time constraints, Zachary Houghton is back with a new incarnation of his site. This time around, he’s focusing not only on general RPG-related stuff but on being a judge for the ENnie Awards. Although not strictly a GMing site, the first RPG Blog periodically delved into GMing stuff — I’m betting version II will do the same. Welcome back, Zack!

• Obsidian Portal’s map tools: The excellent campaign management site Obsidian Portal now allows you to add zoomable, scrollable maps to your campaign’s subsite. Coming on the heels of a similar offering from Kayuda Maps, I’m glad to see that the use of Google Maps as a campaign tool is spreading — it’s a great concept.

• The Groovecast: This new podcast is “the first and only Podcast that discusses specifically tabletop gaming online through play by post, play by chat, and play by email,” and according to an email from Mark Reed, one of the show’s hosts, about 50% of their content is GMing-related. I haven’t had a chance to listen to one of their shows yet, but I dig their focus.

• Treasure Tables meetup photos: I’ve started using Flickr for my photos, and the four that were taken at the first-ever TT meetup are now online. (You can also check out all of my GenCon 2007 photos, if you’re interested.)

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5 Responses to “RPG Blog II, Obsidian Portal, The Groovecast, TT Photos”

  1. VV_GM on August 30th, 2007 9:17 am

    Good stuff Martin! I alos have some pics posted to flickr of the costumes at the con.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/12202135@N05/sets/72157601687926260/

    Next month (I hit my limit) I’ll post some more.

  2. Micah on August 30th, 2007 1:35 pm

    Hey Martin,

    As always, thanks for the kind words.

    I heard about Kayuda just a little while ago, and I’m eager to see what they have. The description sounds very cool. Does anyone have any screenshots or demos?

  3. Martin on August 30th, 2007 1:51 pm

    VV: Cool photos — thanks for the link!

    Micah: You’re firing on all cylinders with OP, and it’s awesome to see.

    There were at least a couple of TT members who checked out Kayuda at GenCon — hopefully one of them will chime in.

  4. Telas on August 30th, 2007 2:31 pm

    Kayuda looks good. From what I remember: It’s basically a wiki map project that allegedly scales down to the 1″=5′ scale. Tags on the map can be programmed to feed documents when clicked. Viewing and editing permissions are determined by the creator of the map in question.

    Telas

    PS: My eyes are normally straight; I was trying to cross one in the pic, with limited success.

  5. John Hyland on August 31st, 2007 12:18 pm

    So, speaking of TT meetups, is anybody else going to be at DragonCon? I know I’ve only made a handful of posts, but I read all the time and it would be great to meet some of you folks in person.