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The Problem with Horses
I like to use miniatures when I play my games. It's useful for no other reason than knowing where things are in relationship to one another. Of course depending on the game, there will be rules...
View ArticleWriting your own Software for Your Game
I computer person. There is no doubt about that. While these days I'm mostly a Database Administrator and LAMP Stack Developer, I've done just a little bit of everything it seems in the computer...
View ArticleMuses on the Role of Dice
Dice are such a funny thing. We talk about dice being hot or cold. We assign personalities to them. We have certain dice we use in certain situations. We have dice in our favorite color. We tend to...
View ArticleCan You Have Too Many Tables?
It is once again Friday, which means that the week has come and gone here at the Bone Scroll. Sadly, I was not able to post as much as I would have liked as I was very busy this week. Even so, I was...
View ArticleInspiration Can Come From Anywhere (or What to Do When Your in a Hurry)
Creating an adventure for a party is always a tricky thing. As Game Master, you have to do all the prep work. You have to draw maps. You have to create Monster or NPC stat blocks. And most important of...
View ArticleA short Rant on Genres Covered By Role-Playing Games
One of the most interesting things about Role-playing games it the wide assortment of Genres that it covers. If you can think of a genre, it's likely out there. Hell, there are likely some genres that...
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And So I Create a Dice Roller For My Android
It has been less than a month since I got my Droid X phone. Being a programmer and general computer nerd, I was happy to play with Google's App Inventor for the Android since I'm not a big on...
View ArticleOh, So It's Standard Fantasy
Last Friday, I had a short rant about how Fantasy is usually the first things people think of when they think about Role-Playing Games. The comments that I got on it were rather interesting on the...
View ArticleHey You Got Hyperdrives in My Science Fiction!
Last week, I asked the question why is it that we think Fantasy first thing. One of the responses I got in the comments, was that Science Fiction has many different divisions, which is why it's not the...
View ArticleStatus of the Bone Scroll
Time is very valuable to me as it is to us all. As such, I find it hard sometimes to keep up with all the projects I have going on. Which means I need to simplify a few things. So what does that mean...
View ArticleThe Rule of Law
This First Appeared on RPG CircusYou know the drill, the players' characters stumble into town and procedure to interact with people in any sort of manner they see fit. They destroy property. They...
View ArticleReview: Fantasy Craft - Adventure Companion
This review first appeared at RPG CircusSome of you may now that I have talked about what is standard fantasy. I talked about how none of can agree on what it means, but yet we all seem to claim there...
View ArticleDeciding Which Miniatures to Repaint
Earlier this week, I went through my collection of miniatures. I decided it was time to strip and repaint my collection of skeletons. Along the way, I started to pick out other miniatures that either...
View ArticleUsing the One-Shot Game
This Entry Originally appeared on RPG Blog 2If you been around gaming for any time at all, you most likely used a one-shot game. The funny thing is we sometimes don’t like to do one-shot games at all....
View ArticleIt's My Birthday and I Can Complain If I Want to!
Well, it is my birthday, but I really don’t want to complain. Rather, I’d like to make an observation about getting old and having played games a long long time. I think as I get older, I get more and...
View ArticleCreating a One-Shot Adventure
This first appeared at RPG Blog 2You are an experienced game master. You have created many adventures. You’ve decided that there is a situation that calls for a one-shot adventure. Should be easy to do...
View ArticleTablet Computing and Active Game Play
One thing that no one can deny is the impact of personal computers on table top Role-Playing Games. Since the early days, I think people have written and used random generators, dice rollers,...
View ArticlePathfinder Advanced Player's Guide: My First Impression
I know that I'm a bit behind the power curve with this review of Piazo's Advanced Player's Guide (APG) for Pathfinder. There are a few reasons for this. First, I wasn't sure I wanted to get a product...
View ArticleMy View on Modifying Classes to Create Variants
I've been very busy lately, which is why there has been no updates from me and a while.As a matter of fact the last article I did was talking about Pathfinder's Advanced Player's Guide. In it, one of...
View ArticleRolemaster on the Brain
In the last podcast of RPG Circus, I had a short rant about Rolemaster. I'm sure this what lead me to referring to Tim Dugger's Alternative Realms in my last post. Then of course I went to a party on...
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