Put Your Adventures in the Crucible
In his latest contribution to the KRAKEN Chapbook Series, award-winning game designer Robin D. Laws shows the key structures underlying tabletop roleplaying scenarios. Sharpen your adventures in any game by learning the big five adventure types and how they tick.
The Dungeon: Whether you use it regularly or remember it from gaming... [click here for more]
Hard SF Worldbuilding Cookbook #3: Rogue PlanetsA how-to guide for writers and roleplayers
Start with your story. Choose locations, find situations, and inspire novel prompts as you need them. Have the science behind them at your fingertips, when you want it.
Inspiration first, then worldbuilding.
The Hard SF Worldbuilding Cookbooks:
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This concise first volume of Worldbuilding For Writers, Gamers and Other Creators provides straightforward guidance on how to model the astronomical elements of an Earth-like planet for your storyworld setting. Author and storyworld creator Matthew Wayne Selznick ("Brave Men Run -- A Novel of the Sovereign Era") explains the science and helps you through the (basic) math required to:
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Ever wondered what it takes to make it as a freelancer?
Want to improve your homebrew adventures? The KOBOLD Guide to Game Design distills years of professional experience into a collection of design wisdom that can improve your game and vastly increase your odds of selling a magazine article, adventure, or complete game design.
Includes tips from Keith Baker, Wolfgang Baur, Ed Greenwood,... [click here for more]
It's easy to make aliens: take a person or a dog, slap some antennae on 'em, maybe some ooze and some spooky talons, and then put some random letters together in a nigh-unpronounceable combination.
As I said, it's easy to make aliens. What isn't easy is making them well.
Even when you're working hard to be creative, it can sometimes be hard to get out of the rut of familiarity, to go... [click here for more]
How to best describe Landscapes?
It’s important to give your audience (readers or fellow gamers) a sense of place. That is, a landscape they can identify with and/or visualize.The difficulty here is placing a feature, a moment or a mark on the landscape that's memorable and (more importantly) indigenous to the landscape. This is exactly what these cards... [click here for more]
This is a guide to insane Lovecraftian classroom rigor. Is it intended to be used along with Stealing Cthulhu by Graham Walmsley.
An introduction from the guide:
WHAT ’S THE DEAL HERE?Why You Should & How You Could (Use This)
H.P. Lovecraft is a ghost in some circles. To many readers, he haunts silently and unrecognized in the background of the very... [click here for more]
This special bundle product contains the following titles.How-To: Far North PeoplesRegular price: $2.95 Bundle price: $2.36 Format: Watermarked PDF Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo... [click here for more]
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