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Hello and welcome back to our fifth volume of Loaded Dice! How did we get to five of these things? Thank you to everyone who reads our blog and these collections of our favorite articles. By now, you know the deal. Loaded Dice 5 has the all usual sections on Storytelling, plotting and pacing your RPG, non-player characters (NPCs), juggling game rules and mechanics, and advice for players about creating characters and then playing them in a t...

After four years of writing for The RPGuide, we've talked a lot about running and playing role-playing games. Thank you for listening for all these years! This is a collection of our best and favorite articles from the fourth year of RPGuide posts. It includes sections on Storytelling, plotting and pacing your game, non-player characters (NPCs), game rules and mechanics, and advice for players to create characters and then play them in a tea...

After three years of writing for The RPGuide, we've talked a lot about running and playing role-playing games. Thank you for listening for all these years!This is a collection of our best and favorite articles from the third year of RPGuide posts. It includes sections on Storytelling, plotting and pacing your game, non-player characters (NPCs), game rules and mechanics, and advice for players to create characters and then play them in a team s...

After two years of writing for The RPGuide, we've talked a lot about running and playing role-playing games. So this is a collection of our best and favorite articles from the second year of RPGuide posts. This volume of Loaded Dice has sections on Storytelling, plotting and pacing your game - including romantic arcs - more about non-player characters (NPCs), juggling game rules and mechanics, and advice for players for creating characters and...

I've been running role-playing games for thirty years, but am relatively new to playing them. Erica's rolled up dozens of characters, but has only a few Storytelling experiences under her belt. Together, we've written a blog about what we learned, the challenges we have to overcome, and all the solutions we've come up with to keep an RPG campaign going - The RPGuide.This is a collection of our best and favorite articles from the first year and...

A full-tilt road trip. The end of days. Can they escape the highway to hell?Jasmine "Jaz" O'Neil wants out of Kansas fast. But escaping her dead-end mechanic job seems just as outlandish as her haunting apocalyptic visions. So when a hunky biker named Leo with a misbehaving machine offers her an out, she ignores her fears and takes it. But they've barely begun their trip when they find Leo's gang supernaturally slaughtered.Reeling from the blo...

I've written two other books (so far) on my tricks and tools for running table-top role-playing games. But now it's time to put those tools to the test - making an actual RPG campaign. Right here, right now, on the page. So let's do this!I'll start with the seed of a story idea, go through world-building and character creation, then expanding that basic plot out into scenes, combats and crises. This is an up-close, behind the scenes look at ho...

Time heals all wounds.Duaal Sinnay may have banished Xartasia and the Devourers from Prianus, but they're not gone. Maeve has gone to warn the Central World Alliance, but they have no interest in fairy tales and stories of monsters. So when rumors start of a mysterious White Queen promising the return of Arcadia, the Alliance takes no notice.So it falls to the crew of the Blue Phoenix to discover what is happening. Maeve has little doubt that ...

My name is Stefano Rossi. I've been hunting werewolves most of my life and it's a dangerous job - but now it's almost done. There are only a few left in the entire world and when they're gone, the curse will be over.I may have saved the worst for last, though. Now I'm hunting the biggest, baddest wolf of them all. The one savage and strong enough to escape every hunter before me. It's going totake every weapon I have and every trick in my spel...

A chance for escape becomes a chance for redemption.Maeve Cavainna is running and her wings won't save her. The infamous bounty hunter, Logan Coldhand, chases close behind her and intends to drag Maeve back to the planet of Axis to collect the high price on her head. When he finally corners her, the long chase seems to be over… until a frightened alien girl stumbles into their fight and begs for their protection. Maeve and Logan call a relucta...

Volume 3 includes the final books of the Lily Quinn series, including the special short story epilogue, Magic Max:Book 10: A Made ManIn nine years of monster hunting, I've never faced anything like this. The College calls him a golem, and we're not talking about a cute little homunculus. Someone has sliced up a human and stitched him together with parts of a demon, and the result frightens even me.Now I've been forbidden to pursue the golem. B...

I've been role-playing all my life and I've run a lot of well-received campaigns. My players asked me what made my games work and this book is the result. This isn't a rulebook for any gaming system, but it's a how-to for my style of creating memorable NPCs, planning games, and engaging with your players.- Foreword, by Erica Lindquist- On Storytelling- Before the Game- Building Your Story- Running Your Game- Players & Player Characters- Proble...

Their voices are all that remain.Julia has never seen what lies beyond Angel City. And why would she? The Wrath of God destroyed the old world, leaving only endless deserts and terrible sandstorms that can flay the skin from any human caught outside the city walls. Only the Tear, a vast, strange black sphere at the heart of her home, protects the people of Angel City. No one knows what it is or how it works, but if Julia listens closely enough...

Death isn't done with them.For a church dedicated to the worship of death, the Cult of Nihil stubbornly refuses to die. When word reaches the bounty hunter who calls himself Logan Coldhand that the Central World Alliance is willing to pay for members of the congregation, he takes the job. Perhaps chasing death will help him recapture the thrill of the hunt, lost ever since the mark that got away.Halfway across the galaxy, Maeve and the rest of...

Volume 2 includes the middle four books of the Lily Quinn series:Book 6: Raising the DeadMy name is Lily Quinn and I'm a sex-powered half-demon monster hunter. That sets my bar for weird pretty high. So trust me when I say there's something really weird about this job.I've got two dead College wizards, murdered by a… cute junior advertising executive? Rick Sung is no kind of monster I know of, so how the hell did an ordinary human manage to ki...

My players asked me how I run my games and what made them work, so I wrote a book. Then they asked for specific examples and ideas, so I wrote another one.This companion to My Guide to RPG Storytelling goes deeper into creating in-game crises, with lists of example scenarios and twists. The second half covers using voices, mannerisms, and archetypes to create NPCs, including some of the most memorable NPCs from my own games and what made them ...

He is not the hero they remember. This is not the world he knew.Thirty years have passed since the bloody battle of Njorn Pass, since Rikard Mazrem traded his life away to the Alterra to save his dying men. Defeat became victory and an empire was born. For decades, the people of Carce have revered Rikard as a hero.But now Rikard has returned to find the world changed. Or perhaps he is the one who has changed…

Volume 1 includes the first four books of the Lily Quinn series, plus the Valentine's Day special story:Book 1: Wanted Undead or AliveMy name is Lily Quinn. I'm a bounty hunter. I work for the College of wizards to hunt down monsters that go bump in the night. If they're hot, sometimes I bump right back.There's a vampire in my city and my employers want him dead. His creator, too, if I can find the guy. I don't have much to go on, but I think ...