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#RPGaDAY 5 2016 – What Story Does My Group Tell About My Character?

Today’s RPGaDay question is a little tricky to answer clearly.

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#RPGaDAY 4 2016 – Most Impressive Thing Another Character Did

RPGaDay asks what was the most impressive thing another character did? I ran the first role-playing session for my nephew using Hero Kids. He was playing a ninja (custom-made for him) and I was running the first adventure. He faced a group of rats and managed to sneak past them, but then the next group noticed him, so he was stuck. Was this going to be his first battle?

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#RPGaDAY 3 2016 – Character Moment I was Most Proud Of

Today’s RPGaDay question is the character moment I was most proud of. This is tough one for me as I don’t tend to play as much as I GM. Most of the times I get to play are at conventions, which are not the best opportunities to truly develop a character. However, I would say that the one moment that stands out in my mind was my first chance to play Trail of Cthulhu at GenCon 2014, with the amazing Mike Gruber as the Keeper when one of my characters went completely and totally insane.

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#RPGaDAY 2 2016 – Best Game Session Since August 2015?

For today’s RPGaDay, the question is what was my favourite game session since August 2015? I had some great campaigns, but this is all about the single session. The one that comes to mind is the Call of Cthulhu adventure Dead Light, a survival horror adventure that is truly terrifying. I’ve run it for pretty much all of my gaming groups and, most recently, at a convention – which is my pick for best game session since August 2015.

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#RPGaDAY 1 2016 – How do I roll?

rpgaday-2016 Starting a little late, but let’s dive right in with this year’s #RPGaDAY series- real dice, dice app or diceless? I’d have to go with real dice, hands down. I’ve tried a few dice apps, and while they’re handy when I don’t have dice, or when using special dice (like Warhammer 3e or FFG’s Star Wars), it’s just not the same. The tactile sense of holding dice, of rolling them, it’s a huge part of the game. Similarly, games without dice seem like they’re missing something. Continue reading “#RPGaDAY 1 2016 – How do I roll?”

Writer Initiative, Patreon, and your reader rewards…

Stuffer Shack is a resource website that posts on table-top roleplaying games, and we’d like to help support budding RPG designers and authors who want to write professionally. We’re calling it “The Writer Initiative.”

At Stuffer Shack, we’ve had over 100 authors (both aspiring and established) post their content, and we’ve always tried to say “thank you” by offering stipends. Well, because talent and effort should be rewarded (in a notoriously difficult industry), I’ve decided to do more…

First, I’ve set up a Patreon page. With it, readers have an easy way to throw a couple of bucks to the various authors who post at Stuffer Shack. It’s very easy to pledge (or cancel), and reward tiers start at just $1.50 per month (and they are pretty awesome rewards).
Second, Stuffer Shack is its own first patron, and we’re pledging $40 per month!

All of it. All the money goes to the writers. Our website hosting, contest prizes, and miscellaneous fees are already paid for.

The writers are not a closed group; they’re any author and gamer who wants to write professionally in a difficult-to-crack industry.

We tend to post up to a few articles per week. If you’re a fan of Stuffer Shack, then you already know that our content includes roleplaying game tips, game and supplement reviews, editorials, tutorials, as well as downloads to use for your characters, encounters, and adventures.

Of course! Supporting writers in our industry is important, but so are you! Over at our page you can read all about the rewards we offer our patrons. In short, they include free stuff from our store, 50% off discounts, extra chances to receive DriveThruRPG credit, early downloads of our PDFs, and premium ad space (in our newsletter or upcoming ARCHIVER magazine, or directly on our website) – if you have a website, product, profile, or cause, we will show it. Click here to see them in their entirety.

And you know who will benefit from your support? EVERYONE! As writers are thanked and rewarded for their efforts, their work will continue to improve. They’re grateful, and they WANT to make you happy. Most want to write professionally, and you’ll be helping them get there.

One last note…

Become our patron1 — Click above to for more information, including reader rewards…

I’m very thankful for your consideration. Gaming writers really do write for the love of it all, and it’s just awesome that we get to help out. They get to eat, we get good stuff to read, and our games get that much better…

Thanks again,
Chris Stevens

Want to earn $10 blogging about RPGs?

Want to earn money doing what you love? …because we pay $ for your gaming articles. Period.

On this site, we have a gaming store where we sell cool things, and we share the profits with the authors who post here. I appreciate the work that authors put into the articles – and I simply want to give something back. It’s not a couple of buddies that I game with who write here; it’s a wide variety of authors from all over the world.

Make money blogging — (ok, maybe not THIS much money)

We’re looking for:

Articles that provide gaming tips and reviews,
Editorials that opine and challenge gamer and geek culture,
And supplemental content that others can print or download, and use for their games.

Currently, we pay $10.00 per article. In addition, this will increase as we continue to move forward.

We’ve posted articles that were written by gamers, veteran game designers, and everyone in between. Submitting articles is easy to do, and chances are that if you have an idea worth writing down, someone will think it’s worth reading.

At the Shack, we post things like:

One Cool Thing About Monsters, by Robert J. Schwalb
Gamecraft: The Stress-Free GM, by John Lewis
Review: Wreck Age RPG, by Jacob Blackard
The Challenge of Asmodeus, an adventure by Brian Liberge
Finding Mansion Maps for your Game, by Justin Schmid
Dontcha Just Hate Us Bad Guys?, by Dixon Trimline

So, if you like money, and you like gaming, why not put the two together and submit an article? If you have any questions, you can read our Submission Guidelines and Terms & Conditions, or you can email me directly [stuffershack at yahoo dot com].

Thank you for reading.

P.S. I know, $10 is not professional pay – it’s more of a “thank you” stipend. But, with a little luck and hard work, this will steadily increase. Besides, stuff is in the works…

Random “Thank You” email, and now we’re giving free stuff away…

Every once in a while, someone contacts me to say that something that they bought in our store is awesome and has added tons of fun to their game… just like this one that I got today… Continue reading “Random “Thank You” email, and now we’re giving free stuff away…”