Episode Preview: Turncoat!
Image credit: ajcotton / 123RF Stock Photo This article is a preview of the show topic for Happy Jacks RPG Podcast Season 09 Episode 20. The show will be recorded on Friday, May 24th at 8:30pm Pacific...
View ArticleTopic Preview: What Makes a Good Plot Hook
Image credit: 36clicks / 123RF Stock Photo Plot hook. It’s a term most GMs are familiar with. We often drop what we think is a plot hook , expecting the players to jump into action, yet we often get...
View ArticleJiB on GM’ing : An Option to Black and White Resolutions
Valen’s eyes narrowed, matching his movements with his opponent. Circling left as the dark cloaked highwayman moved to his left. With every step of the dance they moved warily closer together until...
View ArticleA look at my con-game prep.
Last weekend at Strategicon’s Gateway 2013, I ran a GURPS game called the Overwarlord’s Emissaries. The game is set in a setting I’m working on, called Blood, Blade and Tusk. It’s an alternate history...
View ArticleThe Perfect Backstory
Tomorrow night on Happy Jacks RPG Podcast, sponsored by Crone, the RPG, by the way, we’re going to talk player character backstories. Specifically, we’re going to talk about the sorts of item in...
View ArticlePC Back Story Example
A little more on PC backstories. I like them short, concise and packed with ideas. To illustrate, I’ll give you an example backstory for a cosmic horror PC. The son of a respected professor father from...
View ArticleGenCon 2014: What I learned.
Here I am at home, recovering from another trip to the Best Four Days in Gaming. That’s right, I was able to attend my fourth GenCon in Indianapolis this year. It was an amazing experience to say the...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn from #GamerGate?
Since August, the internet has been in an uproar about the #gamergate controversy. It seems that everyone has a different opinion about the point of the movement and its impact on the industry....
View ArticleA GMing Article I Wrote in 1997
I originally wrote in article for the old Happy Jacks RPG Resources. You can find it mixed in with homebrewing stuff on Archive.org if you want to find it. This article is almost 20 years old, but much...
View ArticleFFG Star Wars Edge of the Empire Session 1 – Lessons Learned
I just finished the first session of my Edge of the Empire campaign. It was a lot of fun (the actual play will be up on the happyjacks.org site in a couple weeks). Even though this was only the first...
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