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This post originally appeared on The Bone Scroll I use to like watching Babylon 5 back when it was in first run mode. I suffered through all the changes that happened because different characters left and joined the show. I always wondered if the changes were planned in anyway. Years later, I found at that one big worries was since the show planned on having a five year story arc was the lost of characters and how to plan for that. The… Continue

This post first appeared on The Bone Scroll. I know that we have all done it before. As gamemasters, we have constructed a great adventure for our gaming group, which is normally four to six people. We have setup up the session and we find that only a few people can actually make it. Or we actually can only find a few people to play or maybe we can only find one person. In the former case, we typically decide to reschedule the adventure. After… Continue

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Fantasy games are a funny thing. Most English language games are based on a European-like setting and background. In many ways, we tend to have a romantic view of historic elements that are put in the setting. One such area is of course currency. Most fantasy games have gold, silver, and copper pieces. They may have other types of coins, but those are the most common. This basic pattern is… Continue

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I've had the Where No Man Has Gone Before Microlite20 games for some time now. Several members of my local gaming buddies were interested in trying it it out. The hardest thing was trying to fit it into their schedule and mine. I have to say they have a pretty busy gaming schedule. I think most of them game about two times a week and are involved in about four different games. Two games… Continue