Being the Underdog
Sometimes there’s a fight you just can’t win. Your second-level party has wandered into hill giant territory, and the landlord isn’t happy. You overslept, and […]
Articles by Thad Kanupp
Campaigns to Play: Unexpected Horror
There’s a lot of campaigns I’ve always wanted to play or GM. Mostly, they’re centered on a setting more than a plot: a [non-weird] Western, […]
Games of Yore: Fallout
In September of 1997, a revolutionary PC RPG was released. I was a month away from my ninth birthday, and oblivious. A few years later, […]
Lessons Learned from an (Accidentally) Evil Campaign
I didn’t mean to run an evil campaign. I’ve always been a fan of chivalrous heroics, not pillage-happy wickedness. Sure, the system I used was […]
Lore Check: The Island of Misfit Builds
WARNING: The following Edge of the Empire character builds are not optimized. Far from it. They were spawned from amusing species/specialization combos and the roleplaying […]
Ask a Gamer- Roleplaying Fear
Emotions are the sort of thing RPGs tend to leave to the roleplaying side of gaming. Your character is mad/happy/in love? Great, play them like […]
Black Market – Rod of Wonder
Ah, the Rod of Wonder. The “magic item that creates unpredictable effects” been around in some form or another at least since AD&D’s Wand of […]