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Half orcs, the great barbarian race, the mean green fighting machines. Ugly as sin and as powerful as a runaway bulldozer, they are popular with everybody who wants to play a tough, rough and gruff pounder. Rarely employed for anything other than to punch and rend, half orcs are usually played as brutal thugs. But what distinguishes a half orc from a common human bruiser? What does that half orc component do to their mind? How do you play a half orc right, and not just a green faced...
•Dungeon Master Basics: How to Play a Dwarf?
Dwarves are one of the iconic races that people most commonly play. With their gruff demeanors, their thick beards, their short stature and hardy nature, they appeal to anybody who wants to play a tough and assertive character. But how do you help your players from playing a caricature of a dwarf? How do you get them from playing a gruff human to actually playing a dwarf? What advice and help can you give as the DM to get them truly in character?
The most important thing to fix on is where...
•Dungeon Master Basics: How to Make Your Players Hate Your Villains?
What is a role playing game without a villain? Whether it’s a necromancer busy at work in the local cemetery, a corrupt Baron levying too many taxes from the peasants, or a monster emerged from the caverns beneath the earth, your players will come back each night to your gaming table in the hopes of being presented with villains they can love to hate, bad guys whose plans they can seek to foil, and in general all sorts of nasty opposition that they can triumph over. But how do you take these...
•Dungeon Master Basics: How to Trick Your Players
We all have particular qualities we want our perfect DM to possess: illimitable imagination, the desire to slave away at creating the perfect world, the ability to play a thousand different NPC’s convincingly, a vested interest in out having fun, and more. Yet one quality few mention is the ability to deceive us, trick us, manipulate us. This is a more advanced talent, yet one that can take a game from great to excellent. What do I mean by that? Read on to find out!
Let’s start with a basic...
•Dungeon Master Basics: How Brutal Should You Be?
As the DM, you are the final arbiter of life and death in the game. You decide when to fudge the die and say that killer blow goes wide, or to draw your thumb across your throat and say that the PC dies. You set the tone of the campaign, such that the players can either relax and know deep down in their bones that everything will be OK, no matter how rough the situation seems, or sit on the edge of their seats, terrified that this time round it’s all going to end for good. So where do you...
•Dungeon Master Basics: How to Describe a Scene
Roleplaying is a game played through the mind’s eye. The DM is responsible for creating a vivid, palpable world that the players inhabit, but that’s easier said than done. How can you paint a scene with your words that is sharp, defined, rich and full of texture? Some DM’s will go on forever, describing every little thing while their players fall asleep, while others will simply say refuse to describe anything more than to state its purpose. In today’s article we’ll take a look at how to find...
•4 Tips to Cycle Better
Whether you’re looking to start doing short rides on lazy Sunday mornings, or gearing up for a mega race in a few months time, or even just hoping to use your car less by biking to work, cycling can be as intense or easy an experience as you want. If you’re looking to improve your cycling performance, however, then there are a few basic things you can do that will improve your power, endurance and speed. Follow these 4 tips to realize excellent improvements, and watch as you not only ride...
•Vanilla Flavor: Natural or Chemical Evil?
You find it in your favorite flavor of ice cream, you find it in cakes, in air fresheners, in baby formula, coffee, donuts, perfurme, sodas and more. It’s ubiquitous, it’s the most popular flavoring since it was first mass produced over two centuries ago, and it’s name is synonymous with delicious, comforting feelings from our childhood. So popular we can’t conceive of a world without it, we can’t be surprised that it’s been artificially manufactured for close to a century. That most vanilla is...
•Can Eating Eggs Kill You?
You’ve seen the scene. It’s awesome. Rocky Balboa gets up at four in the morning, and in the dim dawn light makes himself a raw egg smoothie. Five eggs, cracked into a glass, and then chugged down, all slimy and cold. It spurred thousands of young fitness enthusiasts to try the same, and no doubt resulted in copious quantities of regurgitated egg on kitchen floor’s everywhere. But even if you’re not drinking eggs raw, and are instead frying them up, scrambling them, poaching them or whatever,...
•Insanity, P90X & Slim in 6: The High Cost of Piracy
The urge to buy or download pirated copies of expensive workout products is strong. If you have the technical savvy, or have found somebody online who’s willing to sell you a knocked off copy for half price, then what’s not to like? Get the quality goods, save cash, workout and get the body you want, all without breaking the bank. Smart? Actually, no, and not just because we retail these products. Read on to discover some very real dangers involved with these activities, and then ask...
•Headaches, Hangovers, Heart Burn and Insomnia – Get Relief
The holiday season is fast approaching, and soon we will all be indulging in rich food, celebratory drinks, late nights and general festivities. Or, at the very least, stressing out as we try and pull it all together, with family members flying in, groceries to be purchased and parties to be planned. No matter how you cut it, the holiday season is hectic, fun, frequently excessive and often results in our feeling less than hot the next day, week, or month. No wonder New Year resolutions so...
•Kobe Beef
America is a nation of beef eaters. From massive burgers oozing fat over our fingers to thick ribeye steaks lying heavy on the plate to meatballs to hotdogs to Bolognese sauces to beef stir fries, we eat beef in all its flavorful, near infinite variations. Entire restaurant chains are dedicated to beef, from Ruth Chris to Morton’s Steakhouse, to the best restaurants in NYC such as Del Frisco’s or Peter Luger’s. Cowboys are an iconic American image, as is the independent rancher watching his...
•Red Wine: Life Saver or Hoax?
Have you heard about the French Paradox? It’s something that has troubled scientists, fashionistas, dieticians and anybody not French for years. The question is as follows: how do the French maintain such low mortality rates from coronary heart disease while eating food that is so high in saturated fats and smoking copious amounts of cigarettes? Were they all just born lucky, blessed with amazing genes? Or could there be something else, something, say, such as the fact that they drink large...
•In the Elite Athlete’s Mind: What Makes Them Succeed?
Everybody knows that truly elite athletes have a spectacular genetic advantage over the rest of us weekend warriors. Whether it’s being over seven feet tall and or being born with an incredibly large and effective heart or an inordinate amount of fast twitch muscle fibers, genetics plays a crucial role in one’s ability to rise to the top of any sport. However, is there more, some undefinable yet crucial aspect of an elite athlete’s arsenal that separates them from the common milieu? A mental...
•Vitamins: Essential Supplements or Marketing Trick?
If you’ve walked by any dietary supplement store even the right section of your supermarket you will have seen them: shelves upon shelves of enigmatic vitamin supplements, ranging from your standard vitamin C to such esoteric things as bottles of green algae. Have you ever stopped and stared at these thousands of extracts, tinctures, reductions and concentrations and wondered if you should be taking some? If you are missing out on a key nutrient or dietary supplement that could prove to be the...
•Should You Be Drinking Recovery Drinks?
Have you ever worked out so hard that immediately after you felt clobbered, barely able to move a muscle? Or worked out so intensely that you were incredibly sore the next day, and limped around feeling tired and unwilling to do your next workout? If so, then you probably would have benefited from a recovery drink, which would have injected an optimum amount of nutrients into your system so as to help your body bounce back from all that strenuous effort. But why? What is a recovery drink, and...
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