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In #RPG #publishing, the tone of the writing of your game is going to help convey the sort of game it is. But how do you go about it?

How big should your book be? Because sometimes seeing a 600 pages #RPG can be super daunting for a lot of people, and that includes me! Do you need to #publish something that huge?

This is an interview with renowned author Peter Wacks about his recent book The Caller of Lightning. Might not be an interview about #RPG but it is about a book that should become a #TTRPG   This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine You can find out more about Peter here: http://authorpage.com/peterjwacks/ And get The Caller of Lighting here: https://amzn.to/3dmiioJ BOOK THREE IN THE ARCANE AMERICA SERIES When Halley’s Comet blazed across the sky in 1759, onlookers saw a sight far more spectacular—and disastrous—than they ever could have imagined. Destroyed in a magical battle, the comet is rent in two and appears to strike Earth. The event is known as The Sundering, the moment in which the Old World is separated from the New, perhaps permanently isolating the Americas. What’s more, The Sundering has brought magic into the world—creatures from folklore and fairy t

Publishing their RPG is a dream for a lot of people. In this show, I am going to cover some of the issues to think about to bring your game to the public.

Nicole Lindroos has been in gaming more than 25 years and for 20 of those years she has been running operations at Green Ronin and creating some of the most daring and interesting projects, not to mention her never-ending passion for a healthy and diverse RPG fandom. Green Ronin now has a project republish the Book of Fiends for 5E, a book that delves into the nasty and truly horrific nature of evil in fantasy games. Written by Robert Schwalb, the author and creator of the Shadow of the Demon Lord, you can pretty much have guaranteed that the book will be as good and nasty as it can be.   Check out the campaign here: https://bit.ly/bookoffiends Hope you enjoy the show!   Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Aegis of Empires Adventure Path is the current project to release an enormous adventure from Legendary Games. It comes in for Pathfinder 1 and 2 and also for Dungeons & Dragons 5E. This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Check out Aegis of Empires Adventure Path here: https://bit.ly/2ZmxEWV   So I did! Hope you enjoy the show! Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj

Safety around a table is important for some people and Brie Beau Sheldon has been working at it, not just for RPGs but also for our own culture for a while. In this interview, I talk to him about his work. Playing roleplaying games can be a tricky experience for some people, but with a bit of thought we can make sure everyone has the same amount of fun and enjoyment and the Script Change is a tool that aims exactly for that. Unlike other tools like the X-Card, which are an “either/or” situation, the Script Change is a tool that allows players and GMs to decide how it’s going to be used during session zero and even during the game. Also, it has some more steps and sub-tools one can use. On one of the most obvious ways to use it is during the session zero, when it can be decided how it’s going to be used and define limits and boundaries so people can use it in a way that won’t break the game for anyone, and also give the right clues when someone is not going according to plan before the damage is done and the g

This write one-shot RPG adventure competition has been designed and deployed by the company Saga Events as a mean to get people into moving their RPG writing creative muscles during this COVID19 pandemic that is seeing us in lockdown at home.

Pelgrane Press has been a referent in the world of TTRPGs for a very long time. They keep producing some amazing work and have some iconic games in their catalogue. But, who’s behind? That would be Cat Tobin!

Erik Scott de Bie has written, among others, for Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons and knows how to take the most interesting parts of a game and turn it into a novel and take the best bit of a story and bring them into an adventure.

Hopping Doom from Out of the Swamp- the Frogfolk of Porphyra! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazineSupport Endzeitgeist Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=433233You can buy the Frogfolk of Porphyra!for 5E in DrivethruRPG: http://bit.ly/39KiBc7   Ngai’i, Yog-Sothoth… bring power over the frog-folk to your child down through the ages, your doathi descendant of The Croaking Voice! Ngai’i, bring the boggards, the Toad-Warriors, to heel, raze the swamp-forest and drive the grippli, the frog-people before me, children of Your indolent cousin Tsathoggua, give me the power of my doathi birthright! From the dawn of primitive life, from the machinations of the Great Old Ones, comes the frog-folk, three races not well known from the corners of the Patchwork Planet of Porphyra! Written by Perry Fehr and published by Purple Duck Games, new Frogfolk of Porphyra contains

Lots of people want to write #LGBTQI characters in #TTRPG but don’t really know how to do it. In this episode, I talked to Steve Kenson, from Green Ronin Publishing about how to go about it in the safest possible way.

ENPublishing released #JudgeDredd after a successful Kickstarter campaign and the game has seen some interesting releases added to it. So why aren’t more people into it? This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   Judge Dredd has been a referent in the world of comic books since it came out over 40 years ago. Its criticism of social systems, the way it treats characters and some stunning scripts and artwork gained it some hardcore fans that love it. And it has seen some very interesting #RPGs in the past too, including a metal bound hardback that was sold for a ton of money in eBay a few years ago. I wanted to talk to Darren Pierce, since he has done a ton of work on the game and knows it rather well, and find out more about what the universe has to offer and why everyone should be more aware of this game. Hope you enjoy the show! Visit other G*M*S Magazine product

Kickstarters are a really important part of TTRPG publishing and some companies depend on it. Shades of Vengeance is one of said companies with more than 50 projects on their backs. How do they do it?   This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine   When Ed Jowett started 6 years ago, he probably didn’t know he would have 50 Kickstarter projects under his belt in this period of time. And yet, here they are and they are doing very well at it.   To add spice to the sauce, they help other creators get going and also work on ezines, comic books and card games.   In this interview I managed to ask him a few questions (with the help of my cat) and find some information about his current Kickstarter about to end soon: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/the-era-zone-2020?ref=profile_created   Hope you enjoy the show!   Visit other G*M*S Magazine production

A Blessing and a Curse brings an interesting way to create new magical items with relevance. But is this book worth getting. Endzeitgeist tells you about it! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Please support Endzeitgeist Patreon: http://bit.ly/Endzeitgeist You can buy A Blessing and a Curse from here: http://bit.ly/2T2mYcG A Blessing and a Curse is an introduction to and tutorial into a philosophy of item creation that aims to make magical items a puzzle for the players to solve when part of their toolbox to improve the experience of using powerful magical items in your games. You may find that some of your favourite campaign items fit the pattern expounded in this document. A Blessing and a Curse aims to help you make more of these memorable items yourself, with enough starter elements to generate thousands of such items and 6 examples to spark inspiration

Something Wicked is the latest release from Frenzy Kitty Games, one of the very few (if not the only) #TTRPG in South Africa. Does this Pulp Horror game have enough to offer? Let’s ask the author! This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine You can buy Something Wicked from DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/sthingwicked There is far, far more to this world than meets the eye... a darkness that exists just beyond the light of the world that most of us know and observe. It is there, on the fringe of reality, patiently lying in wait... The tales of evil beyond our comprehension that have been whispered for millennia around the campfire. The urban legends about dark rituals, blood sacrifices and secret societies. Terrifying rumours of witchcraft and black magic being used to raise the dead and summon demons under the light of the full moon. All of these stories are true. Evil

#Chaosium’s line Editor Dr. Lynne Hardy is a true expert on the matter of finding gaps and holes in stories and #RPGs, and thus, she knows a lot about our topic: Reality vs. Verisimilitude. This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine Whether it is a Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction or any other genre, we deal with things in-game that are totally impossible and yet, they are accepted as realistic. Trouble is that more often than not people mean verisimilar rather than realistic. And that difference means a lot. When we say realistic we are imposing a series of norms and laws of physics, society, biology, etc. that correspond with our world’s. When we say verisimilar, we mean that they make sense, that they feel real event though they are not. So how and when should we stop reality to justify verisimilitude? What are the boundaries and how does it get implemented? Hope

The following review has been written by Thilo Graf, also known by Endzeigteist. For more reviews like this, please visit his website at Endzeitgeist.com and, please support his patreon. The address is in the show notes as well as on the top left corner if you are watching the video rather than our podcast. Endzeitgeist’s Patreon: http://bit.ly/EndzeitgeistYou can buy Gibbous Moon from here: http://bit.ly/31UFvKP This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine A short Pathfinder Roleplaying Game compatible adventure for 3rd-level PCs by Ennie Award winning designer Creighton Broadhurst Months ago, the necromancer Dunstan Wymer was gored by a wereboar and infected with lycanthropy. Almost driven insane by the realization of what he had become after awaking amid the gore and viscera of his companions’ eviscerated corpses, he has since shunned civilization instead seeking o

101 Cursed Items bring us exactly that thanks to Zenith Games. This is a review from Endzeitgeist.   The following review has been written by Thilo Graf, also known by Endzeigteist. For more reviews like this, please visit his website at Endzeitgeist.com and, please support his patreon. The address is in the show notes as well as on the top left corner if you are watching the video rather than our podcast. Endzeitgeist Patreon: http://bit.ly/EndzeitgeistYou can buy this book from here: http://bit.ly/101curseditems This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting and support our Patreon Campaign if you can: https://www.patreon.com/gmsmagazine 101 Cursed Items presents a litany of memorable and engaging curses to use in your game. Each curse and drawback enhances the story and mythos of your campaign, providing additional challenges without seeming unfair. The curses and drawbacks within range from goofy to punishing to campaign threatening, but they ar

This video has been produced for www.gmsmagazine.com. Please help our channel by subscribing and commenting. Sensitive topics can be dealt with in #RPGs and Chris Dias, from Dias Ex Machina has a game, Amethyst, that claims to do that. So having a game that helps you deal and bring those topics to the table in the safest possible way and without being an insensitive edgelord is very welcome. Hope you enjoy the show! You can buy the game here for 5E: http://bit.ly/Amethyst5E Here for Fate Core: http://bit.ly/AmethystFate Here for Savage Worlds: http://bit.ly/AmethystSW Here for 13th Age: http://bit.ly/Amethyst13thage Here for Pathfinder: http://bit.ly/AmethystPF1 And for other Dias Ex Machina games: https://www.diasexmachina.com/   Visit other G*M*S Magazine productions: For our main channel: http://bit.ly/GMSmagazine For our #podcast: https://goo.gl/M54zau Follow us on #Twitter: https://goo.gl/moZgvK Our #Facebook page: https://goo.gl/YkbQIj