Raven Crowking's Nest

I watched the original Stargate movie in the theatre back in 1994. At the time, I characterized it as “ Power Rangers for adults”…which...

Thanks to the thread about Jim Wampler 's Mutant Crawl Classics , I learned about this man who makes specialty dice .  That die pictu...

Imagine, if you would, an encounter occurring which has no relevance to the scenario in which it occurs. It adds no verisimilitude, adds ...

"It is the spirit of the game, not the letter of the rules, which is important. Never hold to the letter written, nor allow some barr...

When people talk about “balanced encounters”, they may mean one of several things – anything from creating encounters that are generally ...

Here is a little bit of GMing philosophy - when you play in my game, I am on your side. I really hope that you do well. I just won't d...

If one problem with Adventure Path play is that the Game Master may block the players in setting objectives for their characters, the reve...

“Now what are we supposed to do?” they ask.   And then they sit there, staring across the table, waiting for you to give them some quest, ...

When devising a setting for a role-playing game, some people might think considering local animals unimportant. I do not. I try to remem...