• The Way, the Truth, & the Dice
  • Join the Guild!
  • About Us
    • Statement of Faith
    • Code of Conduct
    • Constitution
  • Store
Christian Gamers Guild

settings

Christian Gamers Guild 2024 Index

January 1, 2025 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

Those of us overseeing the web site have been otherwise pressured in 2024, with the result that there is a backlog of articles submitted by members of the Christian Gamers Guild, but the only things that actually got published were entries in the two main series, Faith in Play and RPG-ology. It is a tradition … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play, RPG-ology Tagged: characters, faith, faith and gaming, fantasy, Game Ideas Unlimited, games, Gaming Outpost, gm tips, religion, role-playing, role-playing game, rpg, science fiction, settings

RPG-ology #83: Tactics

October 15, 2024 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #83:  Tactics, for October 2024. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles.  This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited:  Tactics, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: AD&D, battle, combat, fighter, Game Ideas Unlimited, genre, map, party leader, places to go people to be, players, referee, Regis Pannier, screen, settings, sorcery, tactics, thief, wargames

Faith in Play #81: The Bland Mind

August 6, 2024 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #81:  The Bland Mind, for August 2024. I’m going to confess up front that this thought came from a typo:  I was studying in the Synoptics about Jesus healing a blind man, and I mistyped bland for blind.  I corrected it immediately, but it left me wondering, couldn’t Jesus heal … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: christian gamers guild, fiction, games, healing, settings, writing

RPG-ology #70: Value

September 19, 2023 by M. J. Young, Chaplain 3 Comments

This is RPG-ology #70:  Value, for September 2023. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating a copy of this and a number of other lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles.  This was originally Game Ideas Unlimited:  Value, and is reposted here with minor … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: Game Ideas Unlimited, role-playing game, roleplaying game, rpg, settings, world building, worldbuilding

RPG-ology #53: In the Spirit of Radio

April 19, 2022 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #53:  In the Spirit of Radio, for April 2022. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition.  This was originally published in the Winter 2004 edition of the Daedalus e-zine, and was forgotten when that publication vanished.  However, having seen the French … [Read more…]

Posted in: RPG-ology Tagged: advice, characterization, characters, creation, disney, fantasy, fear, gaming, hobbits, imagination, magic, monsters, multiverser, music, relationships, role-playing, role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying game, ron edwards, rpg, science fiction, settings, social, sorcerer, story, television, tips, tolkien, universalis, world building, worldbuilding

RPG-ology #49: Stitches

December 21, 2021 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #49:  Stitches, for December 2021. Our thanks to Regis Pannier and the team at the Places to Go, People to Be French edition for locating copies of many lost Game Ideas Unlimited articles.  This was originally published as Game Ideas Unlimited:  Stitches, and has been reproduced here with minor editing [bracketed]. I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: courtroom, details, diagnosis murder, Game Ideas Unlimited, matlock, medicine, mystery, perry mason, setting, settings

Sewers and Such

January 14, 2020 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

Someone once wrote that good Game Masters seem to know a little bit about everything. If it’s not obvious, this is because they need to know how the world works so they can make their own game settings seem real. I know this first-hand from years of running fantasy campaigns. At one point or another, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Uncategorized Tagged: advice, fantasy, gm tips, greece, history, indus river valley, irrigation, knossos, paris, role-playing, role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying game, rome, rpg, sanitation, settings, sewer, sewers, tips, water, world building, worldbuilding

RPG-ology #22: Snow Day

September 17, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #22:  Snow Day, for September 2019. As I write this, it’s snowing; snow is sticking to the ground, and we’re probably going to be snowed in.  At least, the boys are hoping there will be no school tomorrow. That makes no sense to most of you as you read this.  By the … [Read more…]

Posted in: RPG-ology Tagged: adventure design, blizzard, clouds, cold, description, drifts, environment, imagination, imagine, imagining, senses, setting, settings, snow, snowflakes, visibility, weather, world building, worldbuilding

Christ and the Dice #2: My Current Game (a brief overview)

June 25, 2019 by Osye E. Pritchett III Leave a Comment

I have played in and run many games, and many types of games, over the years. From high fantasy to low, from games of nobles intriguing to pirates at sea, I have been on a star-ship crew and run with a coterie of vampires, vast epics and simple one shots, and everything in between. And … [Read more…]

Posted in: Christ and the Dice Tagged: D&D, dungeons & dragons, role-playing game, roleplaying, roleplaying game, roleplaying games, rpg, setting, settings, world building

Compendium of the Land Surrounding Blackwater Lake — Table of Contents

April 10, 2019 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

  An Introduction, and Of the Barony of Blackwater Of Blackwater Keep, and the Inhabitants Therein Of Lakesend Village, and its Commerce The Blackwater, its Denizens, and the Lands Surrounding Various Peoples of Northumbria, and the Cultures Of Elves Of Frangians Of Zeelanders Of Varangians The States and Rulers in the Western Lands In addition … [Read more…]

Posted in: Games, Northumbria, Sessions to Remember Tagged: Becketts, D&D, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, fantasy, games, gaming, northumbria, role-playing, roleplaying, roleplaying game, rpg, rules, session report, settings, Winchesters, world building, worldbuilding
1 2 … 4 Next »

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Archives

  • June 2025 (1)
  • May 2025 (2)
  • April 2025 (2)
  • March 2025 (2)
  • February 2025 (2)
  • January 2025 (3)
  • December 2024 (2)
  • November 2024 (2)
  • October 2024 (2)
  • September 2024 (2)
  • August 2024 (2)
  • July 2024 (2)
  • June 2024 (2)
  • May 2024 (2)
  • April 2024 (2)
  • March 2024 (2)
  • February 2024 (2)
  • January 2024 (3)
  • December 2023 (2)
  • November 2023 (2)
  • October 2023 (2)
  • September 2023 (2)
  • August 2023 (2)
  • July 2023 (2)
  • June 2023 (2)
  • May 2023 (2)
  • April 2023 (2)
  • March 2023 (2)
  • February 2023 (2)
  • January 2023 (2)
  • December 2022 (3)
  • November 2022 (2)
  • October 2022 (2)
  • September 2022 (2)
  • August 2022 (5)
  • July 2022 (2)
  • June 2022 (2)
  • May 2022 (3)
  • April 2022 (3)
  • March 2022 (2)
  • February 2022 (2)
  • January 2022 (2)
  • December 2021 (4)
  • November 2021 (4)
  • October 2021 (2)
  • September 2021 (2)
  • August 2021 (2)
  • July 2021 (3)
  • June 2021 (4)
  • May 2021 (3)
  • April 2021 (2)
  • March 2021 (2)
  • February 2021 (2)
  • January 2021 (2)
  • December 2020 (6)
  • November 2020 (4)
  • October 2020 (4)
  • September 2020 (5)
  • August 2020 (5)
  • July 2020 (4)
  • June 2020 (5)
  • May 2020 (2)
  • April 2020 (2)
  • March 2020 (2)
  • February 2020 (2)
  • January 2020 (3)
  • December 2019 (4)
  • November 2019 (4)
  • October 2019 (2)
  • September 2019 (3)
  • August 2019 (4)
  • July 2019 (5)
  • June 2019 (5)
  • May 2019 (4)
  • April 2019 (7)
  • March 2019 (4)
  • February 2019 (5)
  • January 2019 (5)
  • December 2018 (5)
  • November 2018 (4)
  • October 2018 (5)
  • September 2018 (4)
  • August 2018 (4)
  • July 2018 (5)
  • June 2018 (4)
  • May 2018 (5)
  • April 2018 (4)
  • March 2018 (4)
  • February 2018 (4)
  • January 2018 (6)
  • December 2017 (4)
  • November 2017 (4)
  • October 2017 (5)
  • September 2017 (4)
  • August 2017 (5)
  • July 2017 (4)
  • June 2017 (4)
  • May 2017 (6)
  • April 2017 (5)
  • March 2017 (4)
  • February 2017 (4)
  • January 2017 (5)
  • December 2016 (4)
  • November 2016 (5)
  • October 2016 (4)
  • September 2016 (5)
  • August 2016 (10)
  • July 2016 (9)
  • June 2016 (9)
  • May 2016 (7)

Recent Comments

  1. JUDY mARGARET aRLISS on RPG-ology #89: Characterization
  2. JUDY mARGARET aRLISS on RPG-ology #89: Characterization
  3. Bryan on RPG-ology #86: Uncertainty
  4. M. J. Young on RPG-ology #86: Uncertainty
  5. EricV on RPG-ology #86: Uncertainty

Copyright © 2025 Christian Gamers Guild.

Omega WordPress Theme by ThemeHall