Day 4 of the RPG Campaign Tour Challenge asks “is there a map?” Is there a Map? Give us a visual! Show us a map of your setting! Don’t have one? WHY NOT?!? Visit Nuketown’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026 Prompts page for the rest of our challenge posts. Sourcing the Map The 2024 edition of the Dungeon … Read more
Day 3 of the RPG Campaign Tour Challenge asks … where the heck are we? The Greyhawk ’76 campaign takes place on the world of Oeryth. It’s an Alternative Material Plane version of Oerth, the default world in the classic Greyhawk setting. But the World of Greyhawk is a big place, and we’re adventuring in … Read more
On Day 2 of the RPG Campaign Tour Challenge, we get to meet our guide to Greyhawk ’76. The prompt: Day 2 – About your Tour GuideIntroduce us to a character who can serve as our guide through your campaign and its setting. Visit Nuketown’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026 Prompts page for the rest of our challenge … Read more
Just as I was itching to get back to writing on Nuketown, along came the perfect series of writing prompts Barking Alien’s Barking Alien’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge! For 28 days in February, the challenge asks folks to share the details of one of their RPG campaigns. Let’s kick things off with the Day 1 … Read more
Just as I was itching to get back to writing on Nuketown, along came the perfect series of writing prompts via Barking Alien’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge! For 28 days in February, the challenge asks folks to share the details of one of their RPG campaigns. I’ll be writing about Greyhawk ’76, my current weekly … Read more
Terminus by Peter Cline (Amazon) is the fourth book in his Threshold series. It ups the stacks by shipwrecking its characters on a seemingly deserted island, as a deadly storm approaches. The rain, winds, and high seas are the very least of that storm’s dangers. The Threshold series started with a book called 14. The novel took place in an apartment … Read more
Dune Messiah is the follow-up to Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic Dune. The first book saw Paul Atreides (Muad’dib) conquering of Arrakis, defeating the Emperor, taking the Emperor’s daughter as his political wife, and unleashing his Freman on a holy jihad to conquer the galaxy. The sequel takes place 12 years later and features a galaxy cowed by … Read more
Age of Ash (Amazon) by Daniel Abraham (half of The Expanse writing team James S. A. Corey) takes place almost entirely in a medieval city, on a world that is not our own. Magic exists, but it is old, powerful, and dangerous. Most people living on the streets and within the walls of Kithamar never experience it. The … Read more
Chaos Terminal is Mur Lafferty’s follow-up to Station Eternity. Like the previous book in the Midsolar Murders series, Chaos Terminal features Mallory Viridian, a human with a penchant for solving murders. Like a sci-fi Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote, murders tend to happen around Mallory. Or she tends to be attracted to where murders will happen. Or both. Once … Read more
Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising (Amazon) takes us back to the mid 1980s. America and the Soviet Union are the world’s only superpowers. Their respective alliances – NATO and the Warsaw Pact – have been engaged in a Cold War for decades. Neither is quite crazy enough to launch an all out nuclear war (at … Read more