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Posted by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 27, 2020 | Articles, Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen | 0 |

Frogfolk of Porphyra RPG review by Endzeitgeist

Posted by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 26, 2020 | Authors, Endzeitgeist, Podcasts, Publisher, Purple Duck Games, Reviews, Role Playing Games, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Review Room, Videos | 0 |

Writing LGBT characters in RPGs with Steve Kenson

Posted by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 25, 2020 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen | 0 |

This is is why Critical Role Jokes angered people.

by Paco G. Jaen | Apr 4, 2020 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, The G*M*S Academy, Videos | 0 |

Critical Role keeps being the most-watched and best-loved TTRPG YouTube shows. And, sometimes,...

🐲 RPG Interview Erik Scott de Bie: How to write novels from D&D. 🐲 All the secrets revealed!

by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 31, 2020 | Authors, Interviews, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room, Videos | 0 |

Erik Scott de Bie has written, among others, for Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons...

What is the future of RPGs?

by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 30, 2020 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, The G*M*S Academy, Videos | 0 |

What is the future of RPGs? This is my prediction of what is going to happen to TTRPGs in the...

Music in my early RPGs

by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 27, 2020 | Articles, Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen | 0 |

Today I was listening to Cinemix at work. For those of you who don’t know, Cinemix is an...

Frogfolk of Porphyra RPG review by Endzeitgeist

by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 26, 2020 | Authors, Endzeitgeist, Podcasts, Publisher, Purple Duck Games, Reviews, Role Playing Games, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Review Room, Videos | 0 |

This installment of the „…of Porphyra“-series clocks in at 57 pages, 1 page front cover, 2...

Writing LGBT characters in RPGs with Steve Kenson

by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 25, 2020 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen | 0 |

Writing LGBT characters in TTRPG is something a lot of straight people want to do but don’t really...

Interview: Darren Pearce and Judge Dredd RPG

by Paco G. Jaen | Mar 11, 2020 | Authors, Interviews, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room, Videos | 0 |

ENPublishing released Judge Dredd after a successful Kickstarter campaign and the game has seen...

RPG Interview: Successful Kickstarters with Ed Jowett

by Paco G. Jaen | Feb 28, 2020 | Authors, Interviews, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room, Videos | 0 |

Kickstarters are a really important part of TTRPG publishing and some companies depend on it....

A Blessing and a curse review by Endzeitgeist

by Paco G. Jaen | Feb 27, 2020 | Authors, Endzeitgeist, Podcasts, Reviews, RPG Podcasts, Videos | 0 |

A blessing and a curse clocks in at 5 pages, 1 page front cover, leaving us with 4 pages of...

RPG Interview: Something Wicked with Gareth Graham from Frenzy Kitty Game

by Paco G. Jaen | Feb 25, 2020 | Authors, Interviews, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room, Videos | 0 |

Something Wicked is the latest release from Frenzy Kitty Games, one of the very few (if not the...

Chaosium's Lynne Hardy: Realism vs Verisimilitude in Roleplaying Games

by Paco G. Jaen | Feb 25, 2020 | Authors, Interviews, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room, Videos | 0 |

Chaosium’s line Editor Dr. Lynne Hardy is a true expert on the matter of finding gaps and holes in...

RPG Review: Gibbous Moon from Raging Swan Press by Endzeitgeist

by Paco G. Jaen | Feb 20, 2020 | Authors, Endzeitgeist, Pathfinder, Publisher, Raging Swan Press, Role Playing Games | 0 |

The 5e-conversion of Gibbous Moon clocks in at 27 pages, 1 page front cover, 2 pages of...

RPG Review: 101 Cursed Items from Zenith Games by Endzeitgeist

by Paco G. Jaen | Feb 19, 2020 | Authors, D&D 5th Edition, Endzeitgeist, Publisher, Role Playing Games, Zenith Games | 0 |

101 Cursed Items clocks in at 29 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page SRD, leaving...

Are RPGs therapy?

by Paco G. Jaen | Jan 27, 2020 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, The G*M*S Academy, Videos | 0 |

Oftentimes people talk as RPGs as therapy, specially when someone want to bring some hard content...

3D Printing and gaming: Let’s start!

by Paco G. Jaen | Jan 24, 2020 | 3D Printing, News | 0 |

3D Printing and gaming can go hand in hand. It is a very exciting technology that can go hand in...

Representation at a bare minimum in RPGs?

by Paco G. Jaen | Dec 25, 2019 | News | 0 |

Representation at a bare minimum in RPGs is something a friend asked me about a few days ago. Someone wanted to do this, so I recorded this reply. Whether you are writing an adventure or a fully fledged roleplaying game, having...

Conan’s Chicken recipe: Dice & Slice

by Paco G. Jaen | Dec 17, 2019 | Dice & Slice, Videos | 0 |

This is a Chicken Recipe inspired by the Conan RPG from Modiphius for Dice & Slice. Conan has...

Going to conventions – Top 10 things to do beforehand

by Paco G. Jaen | Dec 12, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, The G*M*S Academy, Videos | 0 |

Going to conventions requires some preparation and that is a question one of our friends from the...

Presents for gamers

by Paco G. Jaen | Dec 11, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, The G*M*S Academy, Videos | 0 |

Presents for gamers sometimes are hard to come by and we can really get a headache wondering and...

Amethyst interview with Chris Dias – Sensitive topics

by Paco G. Jaen | Dec 4, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen | 0 |

Sensitive topics can be dealt with in RPGs and Chris Dias, from Dias Ex Machina has a game,...

The Boardgame Interview Room: TanTrump in Kickstarter

by Paco G. Jaen | Nov 26, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen | 0 |

Tantrump is a protest political game designed by Mike Selinker and Liz Spain that tries to breach...

The Hero’s Journey – The RPG Interview Room

by Paco G. Jaen | Nov 12, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room | 0 |

The Hero’s Journey has been a love of mine for a long time. It is a tried and tested formula that...

Relationships in RPGs – The RPG Interview Room podcast

by Paco G. Jaen | Oct 29, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room | 0 |

Relationships are a pretty integral part of RPGs. It is very hard to have a party without...

Writing RPG adventures – steps 1 to 10

by Paco G. Jaen | Oct 29, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, The G*M*S Academy, Videos | 0 |

This is the first of two videos in which I give you twenty steps to designing and writing your RPG...

10 illnesses and conditions to use in your RPG

by Paco G. Jaen | Oct 23, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Room | 0 |

This quick guide to 10 illnesses that could be used in your game to make things harder for your...

Corpus Malicious – RPG Review

by Paco G. Jaen | Oct 23, 2019 | Authors, D&D 5th Edition, Paco Garcia Jaen, Reviews, Role Playing Games, Videos | 0 |

Corpus Malicious is a 400 pages book by the company Dream Realm Storytellers that explores evil...

Game On Tabletop: The Interview room Podcast

by Paco G. Jaen | Oct 16, 2019 | Authors, Boardgames Podcast, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The Boardgames Interview Room, The RPG Review Room | 0 |

Game On Tabletop is a fairly new crowdfunding platform that was born out of the desire to cater to...

YouTube Videos

by Paco G. Jaen | Oct 15, 2019 | News | 0 |

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Icarus from Renegade Games: Unboxing

by Paco G. Jaen | Sep 27, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, The G*M*S Academy, Unboxings, Videos | 0 |

Icarus came out in Kickstarter in 2018 to be delivered in 2019. I backed it because I am a bit of...

Blades and Blasters. Interview with Seth Tomlinson

by Paco G. Jaen | Sep 25, 2019 | Authors, Paco Garcia Jaen, Podcasts, RPG Podcasts, The RPG Interview Room | 0 |

Blades and Blasters is a book created by Seth Tomlinson that funded in Kickstarter in 2018 and in...