Month: July 2013

  • Wellstone City Wednesday – The Balance of Power

    The balance of power in Wellstone City is a delicate one. The sheer number of criminal organizations within the city is what helps keep them all in check. In effect, they’re so busy fighting each other, that they act as their own police force. Things seemed to be working pretty well on that front, until…

  • I’m Going on an Adventure – How I got my Nerd Card

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    For those that don’t know me, or don’t yet recognize my slightly quirky, always sarcastic personality, I’m Kelly. I’m the behind the scenes “face” of Silver Gryphon Games social media and community. I’m the one that discovered that all of you are obsessed with pictures of cats, that squirrels playing with dice make you giddy…

  • Rock and Role! Shadow Morality

    Quite a few RPG systems have an alignment system built in to the mechanics. They act as a role-playing aide and a guidepost for your character. In some systems, these guides are absolute and the character may lose abilities or even levels if they are violated. When Ben created Ingenium and I created Æther, we…

  • A new take on an old concept – Myconids in Eiridia

    Last week I wrote about traditional fantasy races in Eiridia. This week, I’m going to talk about one of them in particular. Myconids in original Dungeons & Dragons, and most fantasy settings since then, are basically talking mushrooms. They are a stable race that lives, for the most part, underground. Eiridian Myconids are nothing like…

  • Wellstone City Update – Morganridge

    Morganridge is a dicey neighborhood in Little Italy, and it’s one where tourists are advised to avoid. All people from the lower rungs of society can be found there, and life is valued, and shortened, by the contents of your wallet. Outsiders are preyed upon like lambs, and the hospitals are overflowing with people needing…

  • Rock and Role! Pros and Cons

    The purpose of this blog was to talk about situations that come up in the gaming world and around game tables. I’m stepping away from that this week in order to discuss conventions, and specifically, Kantcon, which was this previous weekend in the Kansas City metro area. Kantcon is a convention that we were pointed…

  • Traditional fantasy races in Eiridia

    When we first published the first edition of Ingenium, the standard fantasy races included in that book – dwarfs, elves, etc. – were intended mostly as an afterthought rather than a core part of the rules. The Eiridia setting at that time featured none of those races. In fact, when the time came for me…

  • Wellstone City Wednesday – Hearts of Gold

    Life is hard in Wellstone City, even for the normal, average people. For the Freelancers, cops, and criminals, it’s even harder because everyone is trying to get everyone else so they can climb another rung in their social/employment ladder. Being a good guy is a tough act to keep up. However, that doesn’t mean that…

  • Rock and Role! -The Metaplot

    Adventures and settings, whether they are plot-point, sandbox, or linear, have the option of having a metaplot move along with the characters as they grow and act in the gaming environment. To start things off, here’s the definition of metaplot as taken from Wikipedia: The metaplot is the overarching storyline that binds together events in…