Tag Archives: Role-playing game

The Gang’s All Here – City of Heroes’ Trolls

Posted on April 10, 2012 by craggle

Introduction We’re back again with another post in our Gang’s All Here series offering thematic groups of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying datafiles, ready to drop right into your game. This time we’re presenting another group based on enemies from the City of Heroes … Continue reading →

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The Gang’s All Here – City of Heroes’ Outcasts

Posted on April 5, 2012 by craggle

Introduction The superhero MMOG City of Heroes can provide an excellent source of ideas for a Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game, or a whole setting for those looking for something with a little less “history” than the Marvel-verse. Under the new … Continue reading →

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Sword & Sorcery Heroic Roleplaying – Adventures: “Rogues in the House”

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DainXB

After hacking character creation, tone, and offering some classic heroes and threats, it’s finally time to put all the pieces together a complete adventure  for Sword and Sorcery Heroic Roleplaying. (Rogues in the House) Following the Event format of Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, this and an upcoming adventure … Continue reading →

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Sword & Sorcery Heroic Roleplaying – Part 1 of 3

Posted on March 14, 2012 by DainXB

For the second day in a row, I am overjoyed to welcome yet another robust, creative mind as contributor for Exploring Infinity: Dain Lybarger (@DainXB) has earned my respect and high regard for his imagination, writing, fascinating areas of expertise beyond my usual … 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: 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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Swords and Situation Generators

Posted on January 11, 2012 by craggle

Situation generators can be a useful tool when you are struggling to come up with an idea for a game, if you have a lack of time and need to come up with a plot in a hurry, or if … Continue reading →

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Building a Better Labyrinth – A Maze Mechanic Idea

Posted on December 28, 2011 by craggle

I’m of an age for whom most adventure gaming on the computer was of the text-based variety. A particularly large portion of these games seemed to feature some variation of a maze at some point and looking back on it … Continue reading →

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Leveragin’ the Black – Situation Generator

Posted on December 23, 2011 by craggle

A little stocking filler for Firefly RPG fans this festive season, and a wrap-up of the Leveragin’ the Black series: – Floundering for that germ of an idea to spark your next epic adventure in the ‘Verse?  Or maybe you … Continue reading →

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