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Maximum Tech
Realism isn't necessarily a good thing in a game, whether it's a role-playing game or miniatures wargaming, depending on the Game Master and the players involved. The amount of detail in a game is part of that realism,…
McCallister’s Basic World Creation Matrix
Disasters d20 1.Storm(s) 2.Monster(s)* 3.Earthquakes 4.Political Upheaval 5.Cosmic Imbalance 6.Invasion* 7.Zombies/Undead 8.Machine backlash 9.Purist Good dies/is dying 10.Warp(s) 11.Major Crash 12.Important Artifacts:…
Mearls Does Milwaukee
I went to GenCon as Mearls the Gamer, not Mearls the Wannabe Game Designer or Mearls the Gaming Outpost columnist. This was my vacation, dammit! That being said, I tried to maintain a journal to record my thoughts and…
Mein Zombie
A preview of Eden Studio's Mein Zombie.
Messiah Jam Interview
Josh: I've been gaming 14 years now, reaching 15. It seems that through every family tragedy Me and Sean endured,it became apparent we needed to do something. Well, we started forming this concept for a game. I've…
Modern Mythology: A Delta Green/Unknown Armies Freak-out
This short fiction piece was submitted in conjunction with the Unknown Green Armies of the Delta contest, which we ran in conjuntion with Atlas Games. [contains some strong language]
Monied Types
Shekel of silver is about one-third of an ounce. Barter chits for types with sixteen differenent chits. Rings of silver as a way to carry larger amounts of cash. Copper, tin, lead, and barley (the last is small…
Monster Design
What makes a good monster? Here are some design ideas that might help any game in which referees are inventing their own creatures.
Monsters in Space
On the biology of Spacious Specious Monsterious ....
Morality and Consequences: Overlooked Roleplay Essentials
Almost twenty years ago, shortly after I first discovered Dungeons & Dragons and the 'grand thought experiment' which is role playing, I was regaled with the arguments of those who believed that this wonderfully…
More Excuses to Kill Things
This unassuming booklet, the cover of which is adorned only with a quartet of bikini-clad, gun-toting babes and a giant happy-face killer robot, is an extension of the Macho Women with Guns tradition. It's not quite as…
Move Over Mr. Zombie, Part I
The beginning of a multi-part series where we discuss how to take your PA world from B-movie camp to realistic scenario.
Music in Gaming
While lack of background noise can be conducive to roleplaying at some times, and indeed switching around between CDs and cassettes can be extraordinarily distracting to a GM, music remains a fundamental part of…
My Adventures as a New GM: A Couple Tips
A few lessons I've learned from my first game.
My Adventures as a New GM: Cheating
Is it ever okay for a GM to bend the rules....or ignore them entirely?
My Adventures as a New GM: Cruel to Be Kind
Keeping players happy by making player characters miserable.
My Adventures as a New GM: What You Don't Know...
What do you do when your players know more about a world than you do?
My North Wall
This article reminds us that even when looking at ordinary things it's not always what you see but how you see it that matters.
Narcissist 0.5
The Gaming Outpost has received permission to publish a sneak peak of NaRCISSIST v.0.5 for you all to read. The teaser, a glossary of terms and concepts used in the final product, is available for download in PDF…
Narrator's Screen Review
Like folders full of NPC profiles, special narrators-only sections in the rulebooks, and buttons which say ‘The Dice Are Not God...I AM!!!”, screens are one of those little status symbols which set GMs apart from their…
Natural Selection: The Future of RPGs
During the middle of this decade, new competitors were introduced to the RPG niche. At the same time, the environment of publishing was changing. In the wild, these events would be called selection pressures. They…
Neo-Feudal Dark Age Stew
A basic recipe for cooking up some neo-feudal, dark age, space sorta empire stew. Mm'm, mm'm, good in a nasty and brutal way.
Net Running: An Exploration of Online Role-playing
It is probably not surprising that there is a fairly large overlap of people who enjoy role- playing games and people who use the Internet. What may be surprising, however, are the number of ways that Internet use and…
Night Terrors
The winning entry in our Deadlands Fiction Contest is written by Seth Gilbert, who gets a leatherbound edition of the Deadlands: Hell On Earth RPG!
Notes on Reviewing Miniature Figures
Hi, all. Walter O'Hara here, the GO miniatures reviewer. I've just received my first shipment of minis to review for the GO site. As I was unpacking the box, I realized that there is such a wide variance in the size,…
Obsidian, the age of Judgement (or is it Judgment?)
Obsidian, the Age of Judgment is a roleplaying game set in the far future, where cybernetics and magic coexist. And humanity needs every advantage they can get, because Hell is quickly taking over Earth!
On Magic(k?) I
"Welcome to I.M.O. in the next three installment I will attempt to shed a little more light on the only phenomenon that has been as dear as combat to the heart of roleplayers: Magic."
On Magic(k?) III
In this final installment of his Magic(k?) series, Holger Nahm looks at five different pieces of "magical miscellanea."
One Shots
One Shots is the first supporting product for Atlas Games' excellent Unknown Armies RPG. One Shots contains 5 stand alone scenarios complete with pregenerated characters. Each scenario is meant to be played in a single…
One World Dominon Review
I must say that the addition of special powers printed on the cards certainly added a new element to an otherwise drab game.