Gamemaster inspirations are precious. These thirteen articles were written to tease your thinking, make you consider familiar things in new ways, trigger your imagination and bring fresh flavors to your players. Grow your campaigns and GM tool box by exploring topics and asking some different questions:
What GM Lessons can you take from the Firefly TV Show?
How does time affect the locations your players venture to?
How can a player get more out of their skills?
How can you make death a more impactful roleplaying event?
Can you use an NPC’s intent to make better encounters?
Can religion infuse the culture of a place or people more deeply?
Shouldn’t their thief find more interesting things in people’s pockets?
What’s a new technique to bring flavor to your fantasy cities?
Can you help yourself achieve a great campaign?
How do the greatest craftspeople influence your campaign world?
What unique experiences would PCs get from adventuring along a legendary trade route?
How can you make melees more interesting based on where they occur?
What roles do uniforms play in your campaign world?
So surf on over to DriveThruRPG to grab your copy today!
Things have been quiet here on the Dragonlaird Gaming ranch. Caring for all those dragon eggs in the lava creches takes a good amount of time. Binging Yellowstone will eat up a few hours too. 🙂
I’ve continued to publish articles and columns in Knights of the Dinner Table magazine. My first was published in issue #100 and it has just passed issue #302 so I’ve had a hell of a ride with it so far. Hope Jolly Blackburn and the Kenzer crew feels the inspiration and love for that magazine for another hundred or two.
I’m considering the next Dragonlaird Gaming project. The top candidate is a collection of my game-mastering inspirations, wisdom, and suggestions. I need to work through the art and layout parts of it so I don’t lose my shirt making it but I think it will be a good read and handy for GMs who need a bit of a spark.
Keep an eye here every once in a while and I’ll let you know when it is coming.
Bad Actors is now available in Softcover Print-on-Demand! Grab a copy for your shelf and to use at the table. PoD comes with the PDF and ZIP file extras!
Check out DriveThruRPG after 11am US Eastern Time on Monday, July 18th for a special deal on our Bad Actors Savage Worlds adventure. We’re talking 50% off people! Never a better price so don’t miss it.
I had the pleasure of joining the PEG Summer Showcase live stream last Thursday. (Apologies now for some very aggravating technical difficulties I had with the streaming software – I hope you can ignore those and enjoy the rest).
Ace licensee, Dragonlaird Gaming, brings you a gritty, modern military adventure in Bad Actors! The adventure is suitable for a single evening or a convention slot game. Bad Actors is the first step into the new setting “Unhallowed Dead and the Dogs of War” (think “Three Kings” meets “The Mummy”). This first adventure has plenty of challenges and sets the “normal” tone while later adventures will introduce the horror of disturbed spirits and great evil in this far-off, war-torn land.
“War is chaos and people will do a lot of things to survive. You’re trained, ready, and dumped into a far flung outpost, an island in a sea of violence. But what if the most dangerous threat is ‘inside the wire’?”
This adventure is built for a team of soldiers deployed to a South Asian country in the middle of a civil war. Assigned to Black Dog Squad, they quickly realize that they are in for more than they bargained for.
Bad Actors comes with VTT support in the form of tactical maps for Foundry, Fantasy Grounds, and Roll20. It is also designed for use with the Black Dog Squad pre-gen characters, also now available on DriveThruRPG as Pay What You Want!
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Another great announcement! Steam Sun Games has released two of my adventures: The Curious Dr. Campbell is a full-length adventure in the City of the Steam Sun setting and Clappers and Clangers is a One-Shot in the same setting.
I’ve completed a second full length adventure, the Collector of Automatons, which is going through layout. There will be another tie-in One-Shot as well.