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Play, Role Playing Games

Steps For Creating A Tabletop RPG Character

So you’ve found a group playing a tabletop RPG and you want to create a character. How exciting! You’re about to enter into one of the most engaging and creative social pastimes there is! However, it’s obvious that the rest of your new party has been playing once a week for years by this point,… Continue reading Steps For Creating A Tabletop RPG Character

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The Geek Embassy Podcast, Podcast, Role Playing Games

TGE Ep 37 – Plays: Pathfinder – Finale! Coups & Contracts

The time has come, our faithful listeners! It's our finale, Coups & Contracts! Our merry band of adventurers has found their way into the biggest battle they have ever faced! The journey ends here at the very place it began with the characters we met in our very first episode. Don't miss this exciting battle… Continue reading TGE Ep 37 – Plays: Pathfinder – Finale! Coups & Contracts

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The Geek Embassy Podcast, Podcast, Play, Role Playing Games

TGE Ep 32 – Plays: Pathfinder – As the Raven Flies

Greetings, Adventurers! We return again to the depths of the Vastwood and find our characters traveling back toward civilization. Nictis Loath travels with our merry band of adventurers. As you'll remember from episode 8, we discovered Nictis the only living person among a community of powerful mage ghosts. Nictis berates our characters with questions about… Continue reading TGE Ep 32 – Plays: Pathfinder – As the Raven Flies

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TGE Ep 27 – Plays: Pathfinder – The Haunted Murk

Greetings and salutations, fellow adventurers! Our band of merry role players continues their journey after taking out a small band of goblins in our last episode. After a successful fight full of magic fireballs and dopey goblins attacks, we rescue the half-elf commander, Vanya Brightmoor. She joins the group with little reservation after we risk… Continue reading TGE Ep 27 – Plays: Pathfinder – The Haunted Murk

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TGE Ep 20 – Plays: Pathfinder – Perils of the Gartooth Swamp

Perils of Gartooth Swamp And away we go where the perils abound! This week finds our adventurers in the thick of the action. Hargath, Sevarka, Nera, and Freya finally on foot entering the swamp and they run into their first foe. The excitement builds in this episode as our adventurers begin to understand the depth of… Continue reading TGE Ep 20 – Plays: Pathfinder – Perils of the Gartooth Swamp

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Play, Role Playing Games

Why I Roleplay Women

Character Creation Let's get this out of the way first because I need to display my biases and privileges before you read this piece.  I am a straight, cis-gendered, Latino male.  At age 32, I am on the older edge of the Millenial generation.  Gaming is a lifelong hobby of mine, primarily of the pen-and-paper… Continue reading Why I Roleplay Women

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Gaming Terminology Primer: Introduction

So, recently my mother started checking out Game on Girl. She's been gaming on PC since the good old days of Doom and Hexen. She still plays Diablo 2 from time to time, as well as various games on other platforms. She told me that she really liked my articles (thanks, Mom!), but that she… Continue reading Gaming Terminology Primer: Introduction

Game Reviews, Play

Review: Divinity: Original Sin

Recently I received a gift of Divine Divinity and Divinity: Original Sin on Steam as a belated birthday gift from one of my best friends, David. He had been keeping watch on Divinity: Original Sin while it had been in development and thought I might like it. I had never heard of the series nor… Continue reading Review: Divinity: Original Sin

Game on Girl Podcast, Podcast, Game Industry, Gamers, Play

Episode 63 – Mike Stevens: Golden Sky Stories

If you're looking for a family friendly, non-violent tabletop role playing game, this is the episode for you. We talk with Mike Stevens from Star Line Publishing about their translation of a Japanese Tabletop Role Playing game, Golden Sky Stories. This whimsical game lets the players game as henge (hen-gay), magical animal creatures with the ability to take human… Continue reading Episode 63 – Mike Stevens: Golden Sky Stories