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August 23, 2011

Open Atrium for Collaborative Campaign Websites

Open Atrium is an online team collaboration tool that’s used for intranets and project management. I’ve recently found that it makes a pretty kick-ass campaign website, as well. Essentially, this is a free (if you have web space), open-source alternative to Obsidian Portal. It is built on the Drupal CMS, so it is extremely extensible. Built in features include: blogging...

May 16, 2009

Easier PDF reading on laptops and netbooks

I know a lot of people use wee-PCs at the gaming table. Today, via Lifehacker, I found EeeRotate. This is a tiny program that does one thing. It sets up hotkey combinations to rotate your screen by 270 degrees (and back). Suddenly, your netbook can be turned sideways and you have a full-page display for viewing PDFs. Awesome. This was...

April 21, 2009

Awesome resource for historical games

Do you ever run games set in the last 100 years or so? WWI, WWII, the 1980s… pulp games set in the 1930s? If so, check out Google News Timeline. You’ll thank me. I’ve been waiting for something like this for some time….

March 23, 2009

OPEN GAME TABLE: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs

The RPG Blog Anthology is now available. I’d say it was a long time coming, but Jonathon over at The Core Mechanic put it together in what seems like a surprisingly short time given the work of wrangling so many contributers. Open Game Table is truly a “Best of” the RPG blogging community. An open call went out across many...

February 13, 2009

Stranger than fiction

Want some inspiration for monsters? How about a graceful, translucent angel-looking-amorphous-thing that shoots tentacles out from the top of its head to catch prey. Want something more “traditional” than that? How about a 600 pound duck (realizing that a swan can break a person’s limb with a wing buffet)? Both of these (and more) are real creatures that Angela has...

February 10, 2009

Non-gaming Website for Gamers: WebUrbanist

WebUrbanist is one of my favorite blogs. It is great for: Real-life dungeon features Visions of the future, both hopeful, and not so much Random creepiness Abandoned places Weird architecture …and a lot more. Check it out. Tonight: Nobilis. Going to hell in a handbasket. Rather… going to hell in a friendly truck named Handbasket who happens to know the...

February 8, 2009

Great gaming tool: YourFonts

I saw YourFonts over at Cool Tools the other day and immediately thought about the applications for gaming. This is a free font generation software package. You download a template and either draw/write the font by hand or create it in an image editor. Scan and upload the template and it gets turned into a TrueType font. How is this...

November 22, 2008

Naming Characters

I have a lot of trouble deciding on PC names. I often turn to Kate Monk’s Onomastikon for help. If you aren’t familiar with it, check it out. I also look at baby naming websites. Many of these have name-meanings attached, which is often a plus. Today, via Lifehacker, I found What A Lovely Name, which allows you to start...

November 13, 2008

Game scheduling tool?

At work, I’ve used web apps to schedule meetings between a bunch of people with busy schedules, but it never occurred to me to use such things to schedule a game. I know some campaigns out there (I’m in one at the moment) don’t have a set meeting time – the players get together when they can. Often, though, these...

October 6, 2008

Random Comment Table

1d121-3 | This is a cool idea for generating NPCs while defining the culture they come from… I don’t know that I’d use the card mechanic, but the bit with the suits is a useful way of thinking about an individual’s relationship to a cultural framework.4-5 | Saturday was Exalted. We chatted with a Deathlord and fought a Fair Folk...

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