Trampas

Author's details

Name: Trampas Whiteman
Date registered: October 28, 2009
URL: http://www.dragonhelm.net/

Biography

Trampas Whiteman is an RPG designer, author, comic book writer, broadcaster, podcaster, husband, father, scout leader...well, let's just say that Trampas is a busy guy!

Latest posts

  1. Creating Spelljammer for 3rd Edition — December 22, 2010
  2. Shackles of My Own Making — November 24, 2010
  3. Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Cute — November 20, 2010
  4. Dragonhelm’s Gamma World Game Day Report — October 23, 2010
  5. Dragonhelm’s Essentials D&D Encounters Report — September 22, 2010

Most commented posts

  1. Creating Spelljammer for 3rd Edition — 3 comments
  2. Gaming in the ‘Verse: The Gambler — 2 comments
  3. Balanced? Yeah, but is it fun? — 1 comment
  4. Vampires? Enough, already! — 1 comment
  5. Evil Characters — 1 comment

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Dec
22

Creating Spelljammer for 3rd Edition

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Introduction With the recent licensing of some of Wizards of the Coast?s settings recently, such as Dragonlance and Ravenloft, there has been talk amongst fans of licensing out some of the other older settings as well, such as the Spelljammer setting. Despite there being an interest in having such a license, the fan base is …

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Nov
24

Shackles of My Own Making

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My handwriting is horrible. Whenever folks need a visual representation of the Klingon language, they ask me to write something. If you go by the stereotype, I should be a rich doctor. And yet, it is what it is. Just kind of sloppy and hard to read. My character sheets were equally hard to read. …

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Nov
20

Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Cute

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There is no denying that Star Wars is a sci-fi icon. The series changed the way that we looked at scifi, both on-screen and behind-the-scenes. Yet for all its accomplishments, Star Wars takes a lot of heat. Primarily, the critics love to bash the Ewoks and Jar-Jar Binks. Let’s start with Jar-Jar. Okay, I get …

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Oct
23

Dragonhelm’s Gamma World Game Day Report

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While I have known about Gamma World for many years, I only got to play it for the first time today at the Gamma World Game Day. Basically, you go to your local participating game store, sit in on a game, and get to experience what Gamma World is all about. I took my 13-year-old …

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Sep
22

Dragonhelm’s Essentials D&D Encounters Report

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For the first time tonight, I got to play Encounters. This season, the adventure is none other than the classic Keep on the Borderlands. I had never played it before, so I was excited to do it. My friend Curtis and I were it for our table, so we were going to play two characters …

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Sep
18

The Mark of a Successful Game

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How do you know when your game is successful? How do you know that you have one of those games where the players are really into the story and action? How do you know that your game isn’t just good, but great? These are hard questions, to be sure, ones that don’t always have clear-cut …

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Jul
28

Games of the Imagination

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Earlier tonight, I interviewed Tracy Hickman for a future episode of the Dragonlance Canticle podcast. During the conversation, we talked about gaming, and an interesting topic came up. The basic gist is that role-playing games have become very good at being simulations in nature, but have gotten further away from narrative storytelling and creativity. Is …

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Jun
12

Broadcasting: A Farewell

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I had grown up watching WKRP in Cincinnati. Loved the show. The characters were great, and who didn’t want to be Dr. Johnny Fever? It wasn’t until high school, though, that I fell in love with broadcasting. I was approaching my senior year, and had already taken some journalism classes. I got the chance to …

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May
11

Gaming in the ‘Verse: The Unification War

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BROWNCOAT (Trampas): “Michaels, you take point. Smith, you’re with me. Okay, let’s go!” OFFICER (James): Freeze, Browncoats! Lay down your weapons. Nobody moves! BROWNCOAT (Trampas): Well, now. Looks like we’re gonna have ourselves all sorts of fun. SFX: Gunfire. The ‘verse is a vast place, filled with all sorts of adventure. Though most adventures take …

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May
10

Gaming in the ‘Verse: Send in the Clones

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Author’s Note: This is the script for the final, unaired Gaming in the ‘Verse segment. The producer at the time was a noted atheist who took exception to me using the phrase “playing God.” I, in turn, felt the phrase was very important to the script. Unfortunately, this conflict led to me leaving the Signal …

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