DFRPG Arden Vul session 24a ended with the PCs in the dungeon, chasing retreating Settite guards down the stairs toward the Forum of Set.  S...

Arden Vul is full of NPCs, some of them in town, some of them in the Halls.  Some of those NPCs are actually adventurers who might be happy ...

One of the DFRPG Arden Vul players asked how I do surprise and initiative.  I think I do them pretty much by the rules, but then most GMs pr...

So you've got a big megadungeon for D&D and you want to run it in GURPS.  The adventure only has GM maps available in black-and-whit...

If you run an RPG only when all your players are available, and some of your players have lives outside your game and will have to sometimes...

One of the players posted a list of all the ways they could explore next on the campaign Discord.  Here's a shortened version: 2 caves b...

About a month into DFRPG Arden Vul, here is what we're using in Foundry VTT. Core VTT software: Foundry VTT version 12. This is the late...

As mentioned in a recent post , the Seek Earth spell is great for treasure-hunting wizards but can be hard on the GM, especially in a megadu...

Vael, one of the PC wizards in DFRPG: Arden Vul, started with the Seek Earth spell.  For 3 mana, Seek Earth lets you find the direction and ...

I've been running RPGs for decades, so I have Habits and Tendencies and Opinions.  To some extent GMs attract and keep players who like ...

After using Roll20 for the 2-year DF Whiterock campaign, and using Foundry to run J.C. Connors' Hogwarts oneshot for two groups, I think...

In GURPS and DFRPG, if you start your turn in the target's rear hex, it doesn't get a defense against your attacks.  (Unless it has ...

It's bittersweet that the DF Whiterock campaign ended before the PCs quite reached the bottom of the dungeon, but we kept the game going...

The Bad News I ended the DF Whiterock campaign today, after over 2 years and 100 sessions, but before the dungeon was finished.  (The Than...

Here are some completely meta, non-power-affecting, house rules about player character names that I'm thinking about for future RPG camp...

The intent of DF Whiterock was a "zero-to-hero" campaign, in the tradition of old D&D, where you start at first level and prog...

When we played AD&D as kids, the party mostly worked as a team.  Except at the end of the adventure, when we divided up the magic items....