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  1. ExileInParadise

    Generators from CSV Quick-and-Dirty How-To

    A question about how to use Comma-Seperated Values (CSV) files to create generators came up on the RPT Discord (you are on the Discord right?) I had need of a quick generator so I took some nodes while building it to share with you. First, review the change log notes about CSV for generators...
  2. ExileInParadise

    Corporate Warfare?

    (Posted to the ALIEN RPG forum: https://forum.frialigan.se/viewtopic.php?t=11894 ) In the feedback to Building Better Worlds, it was noted that Gemini Exoplanet was listed as an affiliate of Seegson and elsewhere listed as working with Weyland-Yutani which may have been a mistake in the...
  3. ExileInParadise

    Openness/Closedness of a World in ALIEN RPG

    https://forum.frialigan.se/viewtopic.php?t=11356 On the ALIEN RPG forum, a new adventure writer had some questions / concerns about designing an ALIEN adventure that basically locked the players in a "cage" - and what other guides might do about more or less open worlds for adventurers...
  4. ExileInParadise

    PiXiE 11-Out-Of-10 Adventure Evaluation Checklist

    Stolen from Inspired by today's newsletter ... how to turn a list of good ideas into a checklist of things to evaluate your adventures with between sessions either during prep or after running them. PiXiE 11-Out-Of-10 Adventure Evaluation Checklist [☐] Simplicity: Was the plot is...
  5. ExileInParadise

    PANZA Public Domain / Creative Commons CC-0 draft RPG

    I have long been a customer of Postmortem / Grim and his work. I am really liking this PANZA idea: Post : #OpenDnD – PANZA 2.0 – Public Domain Roleplaying Industry ELE Bootstrap Kit URL ...
  6. ExileInParadise

    Planck 2d6 Micro Sci-Fi RPG

    Designed to fit on a business card ... an RPG as portable as a CCG. https://ng76.itch.io/planck
  7. ExileInParadise

    Screen Time versus Roleplaying

    RP friends talking about a gaming table with screen underneath and big screen behind the GM: "I think the embedded screen is cool, but I really like RPing to get away from screen time, so I'm of two minds." My response: Get even further away - a blind friend of mine hit me with this once: run...
  8. ExileInParadise

    Some thoughts on breaking out of a rut ... (crossposted)

    Sharing some thoughts I posted on a Discord tabletop channel So many thorny issues to unpack here ... I will say - everyone is right for their table - especially if you're having tons of fun. "If you're having fun, you're not doing it wrong." Part of the mission and the mystery is finding...
  9. ExileInParadise

    Ron Gilbert on Why Adventure Games Suck

    A classic - which may be updated soon. While this is about computerized games, there are points to ponder for tabletop as well https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck
  10. ExileInParadise

    npcgenerator.com MIT licensed open-source

    http://www.npcgenerator.com/ also available as MIT / Open-Source from the link at the bottom There's a lot of tables in json format to start with for customizing. I think I still prefer 3LNPC for simplicity and paper friendliness - but this could be pretty useful for folks in need of push-button...
  11. ExileInParadise

    New canon ALIEN novels with ALIEN RPG tie-ins (light spoilers)

    Free League Publishing and Titan Books have teamed up for a series of ALIEN franchise novels with ALIEN RPG scenario tie-ins. I've seen/heard some commentary that the books are "not good" for various reasons. I can see where a lot of people may have specific expectations that these books or...
  12. ExileInParadise

    Science Fiction Mapping Tools and Examples

    In previous posts here I've talked about Sci-Fi maps and settings... Here's a bit more of the sci-fi setting I've been putting together as an example sandbox / playground for my personal RPG rules engine. The rules engine I currently call eXiSTeNCe. and the campaign is currently called...
  13. ExileInParadise

    What could modern-era role-playing games be about, and would you play them?

    Looking at my bookshelf, I realized that most of my games are sci-fi, then fantasy games ... and that I had to look VERY hard to see anything I'd call a "modern era" RPG ... and I wondered why. What would modern era RPGs be about? When I thought about it - all that came to mind was D20 Modern...
  14. ExileInParadise

    Rousing Success!

    Tonight was the first session of a new Cyberpunk Red campaign of a new Nomad family making inroads into Night City. We used Discord for voice chat, Campaign Logger for Logs and Pages, and Campaign Table Top for the VTT. It went fantastic! I think I touched on every feature of CTT during the...
  15. ExileInParadise

    Old School Essentials (OSE) on Bundle of Holding until May 2

    https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OSETreasures This times well with @JohnnFour starting his OSE campaign diary...
  16. ExileInParadise

    Mad Science Alert! System Prep using Campaign Logger ...

    This past weekend I came up with an interesting (to me at least) idea of an approach for Campaign Logger while prepping a new-to-me system and setting. The idea is simple, but the implementation is a bit of cut-and-paste or JSON hackery. The simple idea is this: Turn the *index* of the new...
  17. ExileInParadise

    1000 Pregenerated Basic Characters (for D20 5E)

    1000 Pregenerated Basic Characters suitable to drop in as NPCs as needed (for D20 5E). https://www.dndtomb.com/resources/1000-pregen-characters/ One Thousand Pre-Generated Basic Characters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Version 0.1.1 released 28...
  18. ExileInParadise

    Kudos Jochen and Team

    I would like to take a moment to give Jochen and the team a shout out for the recent additions to Campaign Logger. In particular, I am finding the public/private split for pages will be a *huge* help for my games giving me a place to share lots of specific reference data with players that is...
  19. ExileInParadise

    Recapturing Some Magic from Campaign Currency

    This week as I was working on my personal RPG system, a lot of different thoughts about currency in fantasy campaigns came up that I thought I should share while the thoughts were still fresh. To my mind, currency in a campaign is a much overlooked resource for adventuring fun. In fact, I...
  20. ExileInParadise

    Librewolf and Campaign Logger

    Hello again fearless GMs! Today for the fun of it - I decided to try a new(-sh) web browser: Librewolf. This is an open-source fork of Mozilla's Firefox, but with added privacy sauce to shield you from the Surveillance Web. To see why I wanted to try it - head over to...
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