Our summer 2015 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami Living Campaign.

In our eleventh issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• • RPG Crucible: Talk Like a Pirate: Bring characters to life with a variety of vocal expressions.
  • Skill Challenges Go To Sea: Our series on skill challenges sets sail for a completely new perspective on adventuring on the high seas.
  • GMing Tips & Tricks: JiB explores giving your game a sense of character and a voice in the narrative.
  • Cultures of the Realm: Explore three new races for your Tsunami Living Campaign. Continue your quest for the Shards of Malvoc with exciting new PC and NPC cultures at your disposal!
  • Shadows of Esteren: George Sedgwick takes a detailed look at a newer fun and exciting fantasy game.

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Our spring 2015 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami Living Campaign.

In our tenth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Chasing the Dragon: Explore characterization through vice as a roleplaying tool.
• Will You Pay the Price?: The Radiating Gnome continues his exploration of 4E skill challenges with a custom toolset for developing exciting noncombat scenarios.
• Changing the Ride: JiB explores the fine art of revisiting old adventures with different game systems.
• Patrons of the Heavens: This issue’s article for the Tsunami Living Campaign provides a pantheon of deities tied to events in the world and available for GMs to use as they see fit.
• The Mortlock, Pt 3: Jonikka Frazier presents another chapter in the story of Sharia Mortlock in the time before the events of the Obsidian Crown Actual Play adventure.

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Our fall 2014 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the eighth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Secrets: Tips for adding roleplaying depth by folding secrets into your character’s past and timing their reveal in game.
• Faces of Horror: JiB discusses the horror potential of characterizing elements of a game like you do NPCs.
• Mercy Hospital: A bonus Mortiston location for your zombie apocalypse scenario.
• Anything But the 10-Foot Pole: Guest writer John Jones explores the theme of exploration for 4E D&D players moving into 5E.
• Tsunami Living Campaign: A quick introduction to our newest community RPG project, our upcoming living campaign model. Get involved on the ground floor and be part of something big!
• Necessary Mechanics: Mechanical ways to incorporate more immersive horror techniques in your RPG session.

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Our summer 2014 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the seventh issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Be Part of That World: Tips for adding roleplaying depth by engaging details of your character’s setting while designing a backstory.
• Tools, Companions, and Gods – Using Computers in your SciFi Game: Writer/designer Phil Vecchione explores the use of computer technology in science-fiction game settings and how it affects your PCs.
• Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
• Playing Nice in Space: Staff writer George Sedgwick casts a light on ways you can help a GM faced with the near-infinite possibilities of a SciFi campaign and make it better for everyone involved.
• My Character Would Never Do That!: JiB from Happy Jacks closes this season’s issue with a closer look at social combat between PCs, why current systems just can’t address it, and what you can do to make it work.

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Our spring 2014 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the sixth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Be Ashamed of Yourself: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by exploring potentially comlpex regrets that can inform character development.
• Exploring Character – A Qualified Rant: George from RPG Circus discusses the fundamental difference between “using” a character and “exploring” a character.
• Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
• Killology 101: Details the immersive potential of a PC’s physiological and psychological ramifications from committing acts of violence.
• Giving Voice to Out Games: JiB from Happy Jacks examine the fine points of narrative control and how it works in different styles of gaming.

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Our winter 2014 issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the fifrth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Eye on the Prize: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by exploring your character’s personal ambitions, no matter how unrealistic.
• Freshening Up Your Game: George from RPG Circus suggests six ways to freshen up a stale gaming experience.
• Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
• The New Game: Chris from the Misdirected Mark takes a run at pitching a new game to your group.
• Heating Up Leftovers: JiB from Happy Jacks talks about reviving a failed, stalled, or paused campaign.

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Our fall issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the fourth issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Devils in the Details: Tips for adding roleplaying flavor by fashioning behavioral routines unique to your PC.
• Creating the Mood: JiB from Happy Jacks suggests ways to enhance your horror gaming experience by engaging the senses of your players.
• Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
• Leverage Mechanics: Advice on suiting the style of your game to the system mechanics that best support it.
• Little Frights: George from RPG Circus returns with a few important tips for adding tension to your horror game scenarios.
• My First Night of Tremulus: A practical review of Reality Blurs’ Tremulus RPG, powered by the Apocalypse.

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Our summer issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the third issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Previous Lives: Another look at character backstory development with people who have lived another life before becoming adventurers.
• Five GMing Mistakes: Happy Jacks’ Stu Venable discusses a group of common pitfalls that every GM should be aware of.
• Tsunami City Project: A new round of fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
• Old Foe, New Foe Hammer: Revisiting a few interesting weapons that rarely see much use but could add new flavor to your combat scenarios.
• Of Pins and Needles: Some Thoughts on the Use of Horror in Fantasy Games: The effective use of horror as a seasoning for fantasy RPGs.
• The Mortlock, Pt. 1: Original fiction set in the universe of the Obsidian Crown fantasy setting described in the Metagamers Anonymous Actual Play Series.

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Our second issue of TQR is now available at DriveThruRPG!  It’s only $1.95, and it’s a great way to show your support for the Prismatic Tsunami community and Metagamers Anonymous.  Share the link with your gamer friends!

The magazine expands on the Tsunami’s mission statement by offering gaming advice from community contributors and focusing on popular features from the podcast, particularly the Tsunami City Project.

In the second issue of Tsunami Quarterly Review, you will find the following great features:

• RPG Crucible: Friendships On The Fly: How to use the “yes, and…” philosophy to build PC backgrounds and relationships during the game.
• Be An Interesting Player: Phil Vecchione offers tips to enrich your gaming experience by being more interesting at the gaming table.
• Tsunami City Project: Thirteen fantastic city locations discussed on Metagamers Anonymous and the Tsunami forums, plus extras to help add flavor to your urban fantasy gaming!
• Building A Sandbox: How To Create Open Ended Adventures For RPGs: Advice on the use of both story and sandbox gaming elements to offer better hooks and a more exciting gaming experience.
• Arrows To The Groin: Hit Location, Better Combat, And You: A critical look at freshening up your combat scenarios.

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