Your superiors trust you with a crucial mission: retrieve an ancient artifact from ruins occupied by the Dark Lords. Beat them to it, or darkness may consume Magnamund. No pressure!
Integrating Combat into Role-playing and Literature
Summary:
Retired Major General Rich Staats, decorated combat commander and 45-year gamemaster, offers insights and advice on incorporating combat scenarios and military deployments into games and stories.
The prophecies came true; glaciers forced all races south. At your dwarvish, mid-winter celebration, a gnome challenges your liege to a quest to restore warmth. You're in the party. Lucky you!
Your fun-loving chimp fraternity, BAN, joins Advanced Primates for Preservation of the Environment (APPE) to learn from humans living harmoniously with nature. What could possibly go wrong?
Recruiting, Retention, and Retirement for Gaming Groups
Summary:
Dr. Rich Staats, GM for over 45 years, shares tips and tricks on how to recruit quality players, make gaming groups last, and retire gaming groups. Come for the stories, stay for useful advice.
World Building for Game Masters, Game Designers, and Authors
Summary:
Join veteran GM, Dr. Rich Staats, as he describes world design for game masters, game designers, and authors. This classic seminar started as a for-credit course at MIT.
Creating Memorable NPCs for Game Masters and Authors
Summary:
Join veteran GM, Dr. Rich Staats, as he describes creating memorable NPCs for Game Masters and Authors. This classic seminar started as a for-credit course at MIT.
The dark forces of SPECTRE threaten world peace. Your highly trained, intelligence team must find out what is going on and neutralize the threat.
Description:
It's 1964, and your elite intelligence team of operatives has been asked to infiltrate a Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion (SPECTRE) base in the Costa Rica to neutralize a threat to the nascent US Space Program.
It's 1966, and something strange is going on in Antarctica. Giant penguins? Cyclopean structures? The Mercenary Troop of Blair's Badgers will meet and defeat any challenge.
Description:
It's 1966, and Blair's Badgers have been hired again. This time, the US CIA has asked the Badgers to recover a satellite payload that went down in Antartica. Unfortunately, the Soviets want the same payload. Besides the internation intrigue and some of the most challenging weather on Earth, the last recon over the general area of impact showed evidence of cyclopean structures of unknown origin. It probably means nothing. Played using the FGU Merc rules.