Author Archives: Adam

About Adam

Adam is a husband, an explorer of the inexhaustible, and a hunter for unexpected synergies and collaborative potentials. His explorations into RPGs began with DMing D&D, though lately he enjoys mining the potentials of diverse systems, especially Cortex Plus.

Pioneering a New Domain

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Adam

Exploring Infinity has a new home! In an effort to better provide clear access to helpful, excellent, exploratory content, we’ve moved to a new domain, exploring-infinity.com, and redesigned the site to better connect you with the content you want. I’m pleased that the new design … Continue reading →

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Expanding Fantasy Heroic Roleplaying: A D&D 4e Hack for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Adam

Dave “The Game” Chalker recently made an excellent foray into a 4e D&D fantasy hack for Marvel Heroic Roleplaying. Simple, elegant, and iconic hacks like this really show how well and how easily Cortex Plus adapts to diverse genre and source … Continue reading →

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Marvel Heroic Roleplaying: Collected Miscellanies

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Adam

Many people have written terrific reviews, musings, resources, and content for the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game by Margaret Weis Productions. I’ve given it a fair amount of musing myself, but decided I’d start by compiling the useful unofficial fan activity into … Continue reading →

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Digging Into Infinity – Part 3: New Dungeon-ville Racial Heritages

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Adam

I’ve been exploring running a game of relationship drama set in my core group’s fantasy universe. I hope it’ll allow us a more intimate appreciation for the social structures in a new era that the group’s epic level 4e DnD … Continue reading →

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Digging Into Infinity – Part 2: Taking 4e DnD in New Directions

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Adam

Last time I explored the breadth of my recent gaming experiences. I expect I’ll be writing a lot in coming days about my terrific experiences lately with Marvel Heroic Roleplaying both for supers and non-supers games. Throughout it all, however, my core group … Continue reading →

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Digging into Infinity: My Explorations of Late

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Adam

I apologize for the infrequency of my posts lately. Craig Payne has offered some truly great work in the meantime, but I’m eager to return to a regular pace of my own posting. So where have I been? Aside from … Continue reading →

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Improv Essentials: My 0-prep 4e DnD Toolkit

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Adam

In case others may find it useful, I want to share the toolkit I use for running nearly zero-prep, low-maintenance yet rich and engaging games of 4e DnD. When I began running 4e games, I meticulously prepared for hundreds of … Continue reading →

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The Fierce and the Furry: Playing a Squirrel in DnD

Posted on August 24, 2011 by Adam

Sounds pretty crazy, right? Or a whole lot of furry fun. One of my regular DnD players honestly wants to play a squirrel adventurer. In his case, I think it’s a perfect option. Since he may actually use it, I … Continue reading →

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Don’t Rest Your Headjack: A Matrix RPG

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Adam

I’ve found designing a Matrix RPG to be problematic in many ways. Nonetheless, I always jump at the chance to immerse my imagination in the freedom and philosophical tension of that wonderful digital/post-apocalyptic world. In the At-will IRC chat yesterday, … Continue reading →

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Skinning My First 4e Party: Converting DnD characters to PDQ#

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Adam

I apologize that this has been a while coming, but here are some sample 4e D&D characters converted into PDQ# format and ready for story-rich, rules-light adventuring. If you like airships and especially if you like Eberron, Swashbucklers of the … Continue reading →

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