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For years, I started campaigns by wrangling my friends into playing, having them quickly roll up characters, and jumping on the dark and mysterious road. There were always growing pains and some people who never moved beyond a character who hacked their way through every adventure. I always wanted the players to jump into the […]
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As the SagaBorn Kickstarter comes to a close, I have had a couple of questions about how to fill in campaigns with monsters if we don’t have a Creature Compendium out yet. Converting creatures to SagaBorn is quite easy. Basic Conversion Steps Hit points, CR, and AC all stay the same. Ability scores stay the […]
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On February 20th, on a warm, not so stormy night the SagaBorn crew descended on the RPGnet IRC channel to discuss their current Kickstarter: the SagaBorn RPG. This is what was said. 19:31] <+MBielaczyc> Hello everyone! I am Michael Bielaczyc- co creator of SagaBorn and creator of the Dark Return RPG setting. [19:32] <+BrianCooksey> I’m […]
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Since the Song of Creation wove our world into existence, we have sought for more than mere survival. We pray into the darkness, but the darkness remains silent. So it is up to us to find our own way. This is an age of chaos and strife. An age for new heroes. This is the […]
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We are down to the last 2 days of our Kickstarter! THE CROSSING is a new, Dark Return setting adventure for 4-6 characters of 3rd to 4th level. Continue your characters’ Return of the Fey adventure path with over one hundred pages of encounters, locales, and terrifying monsters. Written by Shonn Everett and produced by […]
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Hello Wanderers! So it is a big week for SagaBorn. This week we release the SagaBorn Beta at Gencon 2016. It has been one year since we first started our own system, and now it is time to let the public in on our big project. The Beta is out on our website as a […]
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So I love tabletop RPGs. And I love drinking. So I thought, why don’t I combine those two things? Another local game designer, the infamous Robert Schwalb of Shadow of the Demon Lord, is local to Nashville with me. So we asked ourselves, “why don’t we take over a bar and play some tabletop games?” And […]
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When running an adventure, having a good map is essential. If you are using miniatures, then with a quick bit of printing, you can have terrain for your players. Maps can seem daunting, but if you set up a basic map ahead of time, you can quickly produce maps for your adventures. There are plenty […]
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Artists and designers discuss art in gaming and how it influences, enhances, and defines an RPG game book. Panelists: Anne Stokes Mathew Kaminsk Melissa Gay Michael Bielaczyc Paul Bielaczyc Robert Schwalb Moderated by Denise Bowman Check out MidSouthCon.
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Thunder rumbled across the sky. The squad walked into the cool gray building. Lighted keyboards emitted a soft glow. A voice crackled over the comm speaker: “Wave Station, please report on the situation.” Mak glanced around, his eyes growing wide. Tyler immediately strode over to the table. “Wave Station, here. Situation is beautiful; everything is taken care of.” He looked back and nodded […]