Peter The Guardian has a really neat article on how the famous Giant’s Causeway formed here. Neat bits of Celtic myth and geology both in this one. According to legend, the Giant’s Causeway was built by the Irish giant, Finn MacCool, as a crossing to confront his Scottish rival. Scientists […]
Monthly Archives: April 2018
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As always, you can find all of the posts in this series here. Warming Up the Engines After about six months of poking at this world (which I still haven’t named – shame on me) I’ve decided to try running a game set in it. Fortunately, assembling my PC group […]
Download this episode (right click and save) Gamer and pastor Tim Decker of Christ Community Etc in Owosso, MI joins us to talk about playing support characters in our roleplaying games, in response to the eternal complaints of players who don’t want to play the cleric! We also discuss how […]
Our Weekend Reading series (brought to you by our Patreon backers) continues with a curated selection of articles—and a few other things—from around the Internet that interested us this week! We’re currently on an every-other-week schedule (again.) Jenny Through my regular internet browsings, I came across a lovely short comic about angels titled Gloria! […]
As usual, all of the posts in this series are collected here. A couple of notes: This post supersedes a couple of previous posts in the series. In particular, this covers the salvific events of the campaign world and its messianic figures, and it also removes Oath of Vengeance as […]
As always, you can find the entire series of these posts here. A quick cautionary note: this is a dark post in terms of its content. I’ve tried to keep it from being needlessly gratuitous, but Alchova is a bad place, -Peter A Brutal, Stinging Prison Alchova is not a nice […]
As always, the full series is available here. Untamed and Sun-Baked The Yuthi desert is an area of The Wilds in terms of my three broad categories of place for the setting. As one might expect from a desert, it is hot, dry, and sunny, but it is also beautiful […]
Download this episode (right click and save) We’re back with a surprisingly focused episode on sainthood thanks to Jenny’s hard work and research! We’ve only a little bit of off-topic material to discuss: A quick word about the list of questions our Patrons send in, and a brief diversion to […]
One of the more common requests for help I see in various forums is aspiring new GMs asking for advice on how to get started. It’s a daunting task, and it’s hard to know where to start. We’ve dispensed a lot of GMing advice via the podcast and blog over […]