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How to Build a Superhero

Ever wish you could be a superhero? We don’t have irradiated spiders or super soldier serum, but we do have three easy to play tips for creating the perfect superhero persona in your favorite supers RPG.

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GTRT Ep 11: Player Dynamics, PC Archetypes, RPG False Starts & Dream Projects

5 Geeks, 1 Roundish Table. We talk about our favorite PC interactions, what character types we tend to play, games we almost ran, and our dream projects.

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Rotted Capes Review – A Second Look

After an excellent experience playing Rotted Capes at Origins, it appears the Fandible crew needs to eat some crow. Billy falls on his sword and makes a second attempt at reviewing Paradigm Concept’s zombies versus superheroes RPG.

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Noir Light, Noir Bright

How can you play a lowlife or other morally ambiguous character and still be relatable? David goes to the dark side, exploring how even the most depraved characters can have a spark of humanity driving them.

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Consider The Source

A friend of mine once said to me “I’m thinking of running a Cthulhu game but I’ve never read any H.P. Lovecraft. Do you think that’s important?” The look on my face must have given him some sort of answer, because he dropped the topic with a simple “Oh.” The question, however, is a valid…

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Roleplaying the Jerk

Franklin Strauss is one of the best characters I have ever played in any role playing game. A College Professor I play in our Hollow Earth Expedition role playing sessions, he is a super genius engineer with a penchant for creating a wide assortment of mechanical wonders and an urge to show the world the greatness that is the Hollow…

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Review of Revolution: The Importance of Characters AND Setting

So I was watching NBC’s newest attempt to rekindle the fire that Lost was able to ignite in the populace. This attempt is Revolution, and for those that don’t know about it, the gist is that the world fifteen years ago had something occur that stopped all electronics. So, as usually occurs when people lose…

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Respect and Humor

I don’t know who said it (Lord knows it would take me an entire Google search to find out!) but the phrase goes like this: “If you want an unoffensive joke, then one guy and and another guy go into a place. That’s it.” (Ed. note from Angela: That joke’s sexist! Why couldn’t a woman go…

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