Author: Kevin Rohan

It has been a while since we’ve had a nice Friday update, and there really is a lot going on behind the scenes here! We’ve got another adventure that we’re cooking up, and you’ll be hearing more about that for the next days on Facebook, and of course, through our Newsletter and on our G+…

Buried under the north end of the island, under Little Italy, are a series of tunnels that have honey combed themselves through the limestone bedrock and around the wellstones that the city takes its name from. The Ishekiowa tribe knew they existed and used them to take shelter from Europeans and Americans that were invading…

Rock and Role: Stealing the Spotlight, the Pros Let’s face it, there’s a gamer we know that always has an over-acting problem. Sometimes, it’s hilarious and adds a ton of flavor to the game, sometimes it’s just annoying. Truely great over-actors will encourage others to jump in and do the same thing, the bad ones…

One of the first Wellstone City Chronicles, Burning Crosses has been completely re-worked to make it longer and better, with more text, more plot, and more maps! Kevin completely re-wrote it and added more investigation, added features that are found in our other Wellstone City Chronicles! Check it out today and see what we’ve done…

The balance of power in Wellstone City is a delicate one. The sheer number of criminal organizations within the city is what helps keep them all in check. In effect, they’re so busy fighting each other, that they act as their own police force. Things seemed to be working pretty well on that front, until…

Quite a few RPG systems have an alignment system built in to the mechanics. They act as a role-playing aide and a guidepost for your character. In some systems, these guides are absolute and the character may lose abilities or even levels if they are violated. When Ben created Ingenium and I created Æther, we…

Morganridge is a dicey neighborhood in Little Italy, and it’s one where tourists are advised to avoid. All people from the lower rungs of society can be found there, and life is valued, and shortened, by the contents of your wallet. Outsiders are preyed upon like lambs, and the hospitals are overflowing with people needing…

The purpose of this blog was to talk about situations that come up in the gaming world and around game tables. I’m stepping away from that this week in order to discuss conventions, and specifically, Kantcon, which was this previous weekend in the Kansas City metro area. Kantcon is a convention that we were pointed…

Life is hard in Wellstone City, even for the normal, average people. For the Freelancers, cops, and criminals, it’s even harder because everyone is trying to get everyone else so they can climb another rung in their social/employment ladder. Being a good guy is a tough act to keep up. However, that doesn’t mean that…

Adventures and settings, whether they are plot-point, sandbox, or linear, have the option of having a metaplot move along with the characters as they grow and act in the gaming environment. To start things off, here’s the definition of metaplot as taken from Wikipedia: The metaplot is the overarching storyline that binds together events in…