Various projects in development.
An article exploring the opportunities and pitfalls of bringing roleplaying games into the realm of social media. This was written in response to The Core Mechanic’s post, Roleplaying Games, Social Media Games, and the Shared Fence.
Do you want to design games? Are you already a game designer? You need to read Jesse Schell’s The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. It doesn’t matter if you want to design board games, roleplaying games, or video games, this book has tools you can use.
After playing Pathfinder for a few months, I am already hankering for some new options. I have played solely as a Cleric, though at different levels as well as both positive energy and negative energy versions. I love the new channel energy so I have crafted some fine new Feats for the Cleric that should prove very useful.
I’ve never done any actual play logs here at Nevermet Press, and that probably will not change. However, I have been thinking about chronicling my experience as a Game Master. Specifically, I’d like to put some concepts of mine, as well as advice and tricks found on the internet, to the test.
Mad Brew reveals his Steampunk influenced One Page Dungeon contest submission: Vapors of Colossal Death. Be warned, this project was completed under food poisoning induced delerium!
A new villain for your campaign, Xephero Valderann, a Mad Archwizard archetype. Xephero is the headmaster of the Arcane Academy where he is cursed to instruct any apprentice who seeks his vast knowledge of magic, but at what price?
The Heroic Tier version of the Tyrant King villain, Acario Macellarius IX. The provided template should detail and reference everything you need to set this villain against your players.
The people should hail me as a hero for executing those noble thieves and reclaiming the lands that belonged to my ancestors. But instead they hate me and speak of revolution behind closed doors. Well, they shall repay me with sweat and blood as I forge a new empire! Devils be damned…
Mad Brew serves up his insights on the inner workings of an effective villain. Caution: the introduction may not be suitable for some readers (those who flinch at gore).
Mad Brew explores the advantages and disadvantages of implementing Level mechanics into a game and design decisions surrounding the use of Levels in his original rules system, Echelon.