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Through the course of building over thirty different settings for use in role-playing games and fiction, a template was created and refined to organize all of the information created for these settings, which we call "sagas." After seminars for world-building and GMing that referenced this form, the template was edited and adjusted to be usuable so that other creators can take advantage of what we've... [click here for more] |
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So you have a campaign? That's great! But now you that you have the background, you need to build out the forground. After running years-long home games, to hoping from convention to convention running demos, and right on through releasing modules for the GRAM Role-Playing Game here on DTR, we've had to write quite a few modules. Along the way we learned a few tricks and distilled some of... [click here for more] |
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Are you a GM and need advice because you're new? Or just need to step up your game? Either way, Fish Hooks for Being a Better GM has you covered! This article is all about Letting Your Players Build Your World. In my previous article Getting Serious With It, I discussed how role-playing is a cooperative hobby and how the GM and players work together to set the tone for the session. Really, both sides... [click here for more] |
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Are you a GM and need advice because you're new? Or just need to step up your game? Either way, Fish Hooks for Being a Better GM has you covered! This article is all about Running a Serious Game & Knowing When Not To. There are many ways to run a table, and you’re likely to not always run the same way. That’s perfectly okay! Roleplaying is a cooperative hobby, and I think a lot of... [click here for more] |
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Are you a GM and need advice because you're new? Or just need to step up your game? Either way, Fish Hooks for Being a Better GM has you covered! This article is all about Combat: Theater Of The Mind Or On A Battle Mat.
Last time in Built to Order we talked about how to work with your players to create a shared world you’ll all enjoy and want to explore. The topics and type of content presented... [click here for more] |
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A Rift to the Stars
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction, where a team of military personnel is tasked to lead a resistance of galactic scale.
“A Rift to the Stars” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you... [click here for more] |
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Bullets, Blood, & Beer
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction of the chaos of the Wild West!
“Bullets, Blood, & Beer” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you credit Sword of Odin for the original creation.... [click here for more] |
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Cry of the Primeval
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction, where a new tribe of farmers moves into a valley following a mammoth migration, only to find it full of predators and conquerors, and cultists.
“Cry of the Primeval” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build... [click here for more] |
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Dead By Daybreak
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction where you gotta balance college life against the darkness of evil looking to settle up scores.
“Dead By Daybreak by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you... [click here for more] |
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Distress Beacon
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction, out past the comforts of colonized space...
“Distress Beacon” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you credit Sword of Odin for the original creation.
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Dragon Reign
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction where an unorthodox queen rules over a conflicted kingdom.
“Dragon Reign” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you credit Sword of Odin for the original creation.... [click here for more] |
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Echoes of the Ferrochrome Empire
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction where a conquering empire wasn’t defeated, but slept and waited for a new challenger to wake them… and then someone did.
“Echoes of the Ferrochrome Empire” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak,... [click here for more] |
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Fish’s Classic Dungeon Crawl
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction of high fantasy and dungeons full of monsters that desperately need to be parted from their loot.
“Fish’s Classic Dungeon Crawl” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even... [click here for more] |
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Operation: Snakebite
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction with backdrop of military espionage-action.
“Operation: Snakebite” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you credit Sword of Odin for the original creation.... [click here for more] |
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Otherworldly Desires
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction for stories of love and lesser dangers...
“Otherworldly Desires” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you credit Sword of Odin for the original creation.... [click here for more] |
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Rat's-Eye View
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction of an animalistic world of predators and prey, living together.
“Rat's-Eye View” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even commercially -- as long as you credit Sword of Odin for the original... [click here for more] |
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Tales from Summerset Bay
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction, where the players form a team of heroes who have to save the city (and probably the world) from mortal peril.
“Tales from Summerset Bay” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even... [click here for more] |
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The Hashimoto Throne
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction, where the Emperor is dying and it will be up to the children of the Kami to decide who will ascend to take his place.
“The Hashimoto Throne” by Sword of Odin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This license allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon this work -- even... [click here for more] |
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Untethered Horizon
A ready-to-use setting for role-playing games and fiction, where the people of Earth tried to reach out to the stars, but found the darkness of space and the pressure of technological advancement to be maddening.
This setting was created at Penguicon 2019 by Sword of Odin Design Team members Andrew M. “Fish” Popowich and Warren Brown, as well as the following Penguicon attendees:... [click here for more] |
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