Designer's Corner, Articles/Columns
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Thought I forgot about you? |
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"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself;
 and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche History: |
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Death and Rebirth during a Campaign |
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Finally the stars are aligned. You have the will, you have the time, you have the ideas and maybe you even have somebody who will edit it[1]: you are going to publish your first roleplaying adventure. Even although it will be the first time you set everything on paper under a standard shape, you have experience as a Master: you have read and played modules and campaigns, and it’s clear what to do. Or is it? |
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OK, we now have clear that the focus is on our peer-master: we are the light with which he'll lit the players' imagination and enjoyment, that he can move clearly towards certain scenes while ignoring others. We can be a torch, a lantern or a full lighting system, depending on our writing ability but also, in a great deal, depending on the time we devoted into thinking in our reader.
Ah, our reader, the Master... |
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Now things seem completely set and out of our creative control: we've made our best so the gamemaster will buy us, read us, enjoy us and play us. We appealed his attention (the fancy), his reading pleasure (the story) and his gaming pleasure (the dynamics and flow of interactive storytelling). What could possibly go wrong? Well, nothing. No, nothing, really. |
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Am I Evil? Yessirree. |
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Props! |
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Concepts in Railroading- Read more... |
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The magazine is complete and sitting on my desktop right now. I tried to keep it slim in MB size, but I failed. I actually had to lengthen and widen the pages so I could fit all that I wanted to inside the magazine, and I still had to cut some of it out. But don't worry about missing anything. This is a new beginning and with it comes a whole new region to explore. - Read more... |
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In the wizards tower of Zala u'haff the Sorcerers and Wizards have taken a specialized training in the arts of combat. Some have trained with armor and some have trained with sword, but all have learned how to be tactical in combat. Here within is the complete resource for creating a Battle Mage so you can bring about the true destructive nature these formal combatants have.- Read more... |
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So I decided to try and push all of the weight for this issue of Knowledge Arcana. Well, i was going too but thankfully some friends contributed some reall cool content and helped flesh the magazine out. Yet, I have done most of the magazine myself.- Read more... |
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Speedy Deliveries |
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This is a small teaser of one side of the adventure that will take place in the next issue of Knowledge Arcana. The other adventure occurs at the same time this adventure is being played - Read more... |
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Introducing Open Source RPG A Universal RPG System.- Read more... |
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One of the new features readers will see when they download the next issue of Knowledge Arcana is a new Living Campaign format. Adventures from this author will be created with two new features. Modular Components and an Interactive Story.- Read more... |
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