The GEOpards

A military unit for Blue Planet v2
GEOpards patchThe GEOpards, formally 4th Special Forces Company, GEO Peacekeeping Force, are a GEO military unit, and one of five "Blue Berets" companies deployed to Poseidon.

The GEOpards can trace their lineage back to the initial founding of the Peacekeepers and the induction of the first hybrids into their ranks, when an all Cat-type hybrid special operations unit was formed. Continue reading

Editorial: The first month

d6ideas dice1Oh, it's saturday already? Sometimes its scary how fast time passes. It feels like I just finished editing last weeks articles and now its already time to write the next editorial.

Anyhow, we managed to stay on the schedule for a whole month now without much trouble (well, the Ale Wraith article was unfortunately gone for a while, but at least we learned some valuable lessons about our software…)
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The Killed Corps

Killed CorpsThe Killed Corps
A conspiracy to save humanity in the World of Progress

The Killed Corps is an NPC faction for SLA Industries which may be used as antagonists, allies and patrons (if the PCs qualify) or simply as a sidenote. First, you will find a description of the Killed Corps' background, then a sample of a Killed Corps cell containing six members. At the bottom of the page, you will find stubs for similar organizations in other settings. Continue reading

Social Complexity in RPGs

North by Northwest movie trailer screenshot_11This article is a bit different as it doesn't focus on a single tool or even system but looks at a broader issue in gaming, social interaction. No, I don’t want to do another tired rant about gamers and poor socialization but look at the much more interesting topic of modeling social interactions inside a game. Currently there are a few common ways to model interaction within most RPGs: Continue reading

Editorial: The tech monkey chats

EditorialYou see I don’t get that many emails and each and every one of them, bears its own joy and memory for me. So last week, I get this nifty mail, smelling of lilac and when I open it, my email-program yells at me: »Write the next damn editorial, techmonkey, or else…« So I do what every nice, well-groomed and good-looking ape would do, I sling some feces at my display and turn around. Continue reading

Gen Con

How to Gen ConHow to Gen Con, part I: What is Gen Con?

Coming back from the recent 44th Gen Con, the question arose if we could write something for D6ideas about the convention. But since nothing is older than yesterday’s news, we will go a somewhat unusual route and give you a mini travel guide: “How to Gen Con”. Continue reading

Ale Wraith

Ale WraithWhen Ruprecht died in dat puddle of ‘is own barf, the Raven priest told us, we ‘ad to bury ‘im in a keg of “Goldmanns Best” or ‘e wudd cum back to ‘aunt us. Aye we bought de ale, but then decided to drink it ourself. It wudd be a waste, I tell ya and Ruprecht wudd ‘ad ‘ated dat.«:

Hauke Hartlander, King of bar flies (deceased)
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Editorial: Another week and facebook

EditorialAll good things come in threes, as the saying goes, and with that welcome to the third week at d6ideas and our third editorial. After the other two members of our chief triumvirate already published an editorial, I speak up as third one to get you tuned for the things to come.

For starters, I’m glad we already may welcome our first new members, especially since they are primarily artists so we will be able to present one or the other illustration of our own in the near future.
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