How To Create Boss Battles For Exalted 3E
If you’re reading this article, you’re probably at least somewhat familiar with Exalted Third Edition. You have recognized that the combat system is fairly complex, with flexible Initiative values determining…
Exalted 3E: Picking Your Battles
While Exalted Third Edition’s combat system is generally favored by many fans, most agree that it’s complex to a fault, and that its complexity can often be an obstacle in…
Tabletop RPGs and the Satanic Panic
Tabletop RPGs have been a huge part of pop culture since the release of Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 (Noland, 2021). Players formed clubs and organized events. Even teachers used…
Exalted: Planning Your First Game
It is often said that Exalted is a game where you, as the Storyteller, can’t plan for your players’ shenanigans. It is said that the player characters are too powerful…
Cyberpunk Red: Themes & Presentation
HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE While technology and transhumanism are huge selling points for the Cyberpunk franchise, another one is the underdog who barks at its master; the urchin who challenges…
Machineborn Preview: Timeline
The Modern Era: Until Early 21st Century The Modern Era was a time when people could communicate instantly across the globe and soar through the sky like gods in bewinged…
Machineborn Preview: Setting Overview 2
The Nanite Matrix After Primary Order seized control over civilization, it laid the foundation for countless breakthroughs in science and engineering. One such breakthrough was the design for a microscopic…
Machineborn Preview: Setting Overview
Civilization Several centuries ago, the artificial intelligence Primary Order governed over civilization with the purpose of seeing to everyone’s prosperity. While many were satisfied living under the authority of this…
Exalted: What Is It and Why Should You Play It?
Exalted is a tale of a forgotten mythic age, a time when spirits walked openly among men, the world was flat and floated atop a sea of chaos, and the…
Session Zero and Safety Tools
There have always been divisive topics within the tabletop roleplaying game hobby: Tactical battle maps versus theater of the mind; XP or milestone progression; Should you fudge dice rolls? But…
Vampire: the Masquerade and the Attraction to Evil
Back in the 1990s, every college campus across America had groups of young men and women meeting in public locations while dressed like vampires. This wasn’t for cosplay conventions or…
Creating Your Own Setting
A setting is the time and place used to define a narrative. It adds context and atmosphere to a story but also acts as a stage the characters can inhabit…
Why You Should Write Homebrew
My history with designing roleplaying games dates to the very same day as when I played my first one. I was eight years old and had been invited to my…
2021 In Retrospect
When I wrote the blog post about my goals for 2021, I had a bunch of expectations and made a bunch of promises. I was going to post one review…
How to Improve as a Roleplayer
Everyone has a different idea of what it means to be a good roleplayer. For some, a good roleplayer is someone who can immerse themselves in a story and embrace…
Storytelling for Powerful Characters
Some roleplaying games, such as Exalted, let players take the roles of immensely powerful characters. I think that most people who have frequented Exalted forums or hang around with people…
Introducing a tabletop roleplaying game to your friends
Do you want your friends to try playing a tabletop roleplaying game? Are you upset that your group only plays D&D and does not seem to want to play anything…
Tabletop Roleplaying Games in Therapy
Throughout spring of 2020, I, as well as a study partner, wrote a bachelor’s dissertation in social work that focuses on the use of tabletop roleplaying games in therapeutic treatment…
What’s the deal with tabletop roleplaying games?
What are tabletop roleplaying games? What is a roleplaying game really? Everyone has their own ideas and frames of reference when it comes to roleplaying games and what that term…
Thank You For 1K Subscribers!
My Youtube channel reached a milestone today with 1K subscribers! I’m super happy that so many people have been enjoying my content and it motivates me to keep making stuff!…
Some Patreon Updates
Manuscripts and the Transhuman Tier I’m going to make a small change to the Transhuman Tier. So far, the only thing I’ve offered that’s exclusive to that tier are the…
Website
I’ve been thinking about making a website for a while so that I have somewhere to gather all of my content in one place. I hope you like it and…
Goals for 2021
Art by Tithi Luadthong (Grandfailure) / Adobe Stock There are a few things I want to get done in 2021. First of all, I finished my social work studies in…
Dawn of the Chosen – Chapter 1: The Crystal Feather
Originally posted November 16, 2019. I’ve added my first Exalted contribution to the Storyteller’s Vault. This is a playable adventure based on the story I presented in my first Roleplaying…
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