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I started answering questions for the rules to Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate and Strange Tales of Songling on the podcast. I will also take new questions on Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades. This is the first episode. If anyone has questions they would like me to address in future podcasts feel...

I started a series of blog posts on wuxia sandbox, largely inspired by all the sandbox threads we have had. This is more my personal take on sandboxing. It doesn't represent any kind of definitive definition on sandbox or propose an 'ought' of sandbox. It is an ongoing series and I am only on...

I have been toying with running a Five Deadly Venoms inspired mini-campaign for Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades. And came up with some signature abilities to fit the film. This is a little early, still working on it (probably going to do another blog entry that tries to capture the movie...

Working on a series of games that are smaller and more affordable, stuff I can release between larger releases (right now I release my main books every 2-3 years or so). I am prepping Strange Tales New England and would like to put something out while that is in process. What I have so far is a...

I started doing youtube videos again (mostly been blogging and podcasting lately) and will be doing a Q&A series where I answer questions people submit. If anyone has a question to ask me about any of the games or anything else they would like to know about, PM me and I can include it in a...

Been running my Celestial Plume Masters campaign and things are starting to heat up at session 10. Set in the southern imperial prefecture of Fan Xu, the players are part of a group of a sect that is trying to disrupt the status quo of the criminal underworld in the region by smuggling...

Been working on a game called Strange Tales New England (I'm juggling a few possible titles now so that is tentative). I have had playtests for it for over a year, mostly one shot sessions or short 10 session campaigns as that is primarily what I had in mind for the game. But started a longer...

After all that talk about cold weather threats in the Walking Dead thread, and a conversation I was having with a local friend about the dangers of hiking in cold climates, I was thinking about using Survival Rolls in my games in a more threatening way to emulate extreme weather threats. I come...

I posted about an idea I use in many of my campaigns, using books as random tables. The basic gist is turning to a random passage in a book for ideas when you need random encounter, event, new NPC, etc. You can read it HERE.

I just released Sons of 87 for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate in PDF (the print will be out soon as well, but available elsewhere). Those interested can check it out HERE. It is basically a campaign book with a focus on criminal sects. Here is the description: Sons of Lady 87 brings the...

In my Book of Crypts campaign, the players surprised me by how enthusiastic they were for the Punching and Wrestling table. This is a rule I don't remember using a whole lot when I played in the 90s (I think due to some of the players not liking it, but also to players tending to use the...

So I started preparations to run Book of Crypts, an adventure anthology that came out for Ravenloft 2E in 1991. It has been many years since I ran any of these adventures. There were three adventures I remember running pretty regularly from it: Bride of Mordenheim, which I used very often as an...

Thought since we were discussing qualified sandboxes in the other thread, this might be a good space to discuss new and different ways of approaching a sandbox. What methods, constraints, non-sandbox techniques have you blended with a sandbox approach to make something a little different?

With Halloween coming up, curious what peoples thoughts are on how to run solid haunted house adventures. I find it is a really good adventure structure, but has some pitfalls. Try to one every year or so. The first one that landed with me was the House of Lament from the Ravenloft Darklords...

For those who run campaigns, particularly sandboxes, as living worlds, what does this term mean to you, and what techniques and prep methods do you use to maintain the sense of a living world?

Doing a read through of the Ravenloft black boxed set with Joel Clark (who hasn't read it before), and given our reactions chapters at a time. Full warning I give some strong opinions on the d20 Ravenloft era (my Ravenloft opinion are a little more strong than most of my other gaming opinions)...

A couple of weeks ago we did a podcast answering some questions about the Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades dark wuxia RPG on our podcast. I wanted to start a thread specifically for gathering questions people can ask me or Jeremy about the game. If you don't want to post them here, feel free to...

What is everyone planning for October gaming? I am thinking of running a series of monster hunting adventures inspired by the tales of Yuan Mei. Also want to run a Ghost Ship adventure with a twist.

I did a podcast discussion with my old medieval history professor. Figured with everything going on, it might be a good idea to look at some plague history. It was a very interesting conversation. Here is the episode: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-i7q79-d91a2e

This thread is to recommend and post about martial arts movies. Starting with Soul of the Sword. Made in 1978 and directed by Hua Shan, it stars Ti Lung, Ku Feng, Norman Chu, Lau Wai-Ling and Lin Chen-Chi. It also has an appearance by Lily Li Li-li. This movie is very dark, and at times gets...