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Role-playing Rants: Looking for that elusive thing called "Inspiration"

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You've all been there. First game's only a couple days ahead and the campaign that everyone is anxious to play is still a work in progress. Why? Because you can't quite finish that very important plot point, that's being flying around your head for the last month or so. Inspiration's a bitch. Yeah you've heard me. When you're a Gamemaster, sooner or later you'll be facing the prospect, nay the nescessity of writing your own adventure or even a whole campaign. Running on a ready-to-play supllements can only get you so far. But what happens when you finally sit before your keyboard or a blank page and... nothing happens? You feel that your head is empty and that you can't, for the love of life, create anything that will even resemble an adventure for your players to enjoy. And the clock is ticking... Tick Tock I'm currently running a Hunter: The Reckoning chronicle, which I'm writing myself. It began in 2011 as a simple conversion of...

Baby's first Kill Team, or why it pays not to be assaulted

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Yesterday I had a killer game of Kill Team with two of my friends, and let me tell you: it was awesome! For those of you who don't know, Kill Team is a small skirmish game, based on the rules of Warhammer 40K, but with a couple of twists, First of all most units are treated individually, even those who are in squads. This means that finally we have a game, where it is possible to target different opponents with different guys. The games are obviously rather smallish. Usually the army will be worth 250 points and consist of no more than 20 models. There are almost no vehicles and the whole thing is like a 40K version of Mordheim which is really cool. Oh and just FYI I am talking about the Heralds of Ruin version of Kill Team, not the GW one, which I find to be rather inbalanced. I'll post the adress to the HoR website at the end of this article. Be sure to visit and check out their stuff. It's really great and shows how much worth is a true dedication to one's hob...