by Silveressa Here’s a few tips that can make a good zombie or other post apocalypse game a great one, and keep the group coming back (from the dead?) for more. Avoid repetition when scavenging Keep the setting fresh and moving without sinking into a repetition of events. Raiding a gas station or grocery store [...]
Archive | December, 2010
Darkest of Winters Adventure Synopsis #2
by Silveressa “Whooeee Uncle! you smell like the inside of a cows butt hole!” -Tommy Booths, commenting on his uncles new “cologne.” “So does his breath.” -Renee Black, quietly stating the obvious. With our adventurers now on horse back and heading in a northerly direction, leaving the now Not-so-Happy Trails Ranch behind them, they wisely [...]
Pet & Peer NPCs
by Silveressa Sometimes playing a major NPC that’s part of the party can be tough. After all, it’s hard not to have the NPC come up with a winning strategy, spot a piece of evidence or find a trap the PCs overlooked. However, if one does this too much, the NPC becomes the crutch the group leans [...]
Minis giveaway winners selected and contacted
I just finished contacting all the randomly selected winners of the minis giveaway. I had to word the emails carefully to avoid them getting flagged as spam. Words like contest, winner, free and others are killers on deliverability. Here is a list of winners to check just in case you were selected and my email [...]
Dead Reign rpg campaign synopsis, Intro & Adventure #1
by Silveressa Intro: For those unfamiliar with zombie rpgs and Palladium’s Dead Reign in particular, you may want to check out this short review of the game setting: (Also the excellent zombie image is courtesy of James Ryman, check out more of his artwork.) Now on with: Darkest of Winters “A road trip? In this mess that [...]
Keep focused on the game
By Silveressa When I first started GMing years ago I ran into this problem rather frequently: An in-character action resulted in an out-of-game movie one liner, and then the game unexpectedly paused for several minutes while the group discussed the movie in question. I found a few easy tricks that worked surprisingly well to keep [...]