2011 – In My Campaign

My Favorite D&D

kjdavies December 29, 2011 August 17, 2019 Uncategorized4 Comments

Every time I get drawn into a conversation regarding the relative merits of D&D 4e and D&D 3.x I end up saying much the same thing. While I do like the consistency of my position, I think it’s time I posted something here I can just point at the next time the question comes up.

TL;DR (for those with no patience — and this is long, about 2700 words worth): I don’t play 4e, I don’t have the books, I don’t expect to every do so. But I don’t particularly dislike 4e on a system design level.

Okay, Important Lesson

kjdavies December 29, 2011 January 1, 2012 UncategorizedLeave a comment

When using the feedwordpress plugin, do not point it back at your site so you ‘download your own posts’. They collide with the original ones and take over the originals… and when you remove the feed it might (and did in my case, because I told it to) stomp on …

Links of the Week: December 26, 2011

kjdavies December 26, 2011 December 29, 2011 Links of the Week4 Comments

Last one for this year, seventeenth time links post in this series (two meta-posts, one announcing the series, one looking for an RSS aggregator to make my life easier — I expect to have more on this in a week or two). I just realized and remembered, I’m hosting the …

Character Design Requirements

kjdavies December 24, 2011 January 2, 2019 Tips and Tricks4 Comments

Years ago, a friend online told me of the guidelines she was given in designing her character for a supers campaign. Have a way to get to the fight. Have a way to be useful in the fight. Have a way to survive the fight. It occurs to me that …

I Don’t Always Test My Code

kjdavies December 22, 2011 January 3, 2012 UncategorizedLeave a comment

Thank you very much to Dennis Santana for bringing this to my attention. I’m adding a new feature (I hope) to KJD-IMC to help me with my weekly reading and round-up and I screwed up my permalinks. Once he clued me in that the primaries were broken, I fixed that and it …

Implications of Changes to the Hit Point Model

kjdavies December 21, 2011 December 29, 2011 ExperimentalOne Comment

A couple of months ago I posted some thoughts about hit points and healing . This is playable model, and the martial artists I discussed it with said that while it’s not exactly realistic, it has the shape of something believable. That is, the relationship between ‘hard to kill’ (or ‘hard to beat down’, more …

RSS Aggregation Tools

kjdavies December 20, 2011 December 29, 2011 UncategorizedLeave a comment

I am looking for an RSS aggregation tool. I have found in the last few weeks that I read about 250-300 blog posts a week, which then get summarized into my ‘Links of the Week’ posts. This is a lot of reading, and I end up spending either way too …

Links of the Week: December 19, 2011

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I have got to start staying on top of this again. Even starting on Saturday, I spent a big whack of my weekend reading blogs. Some really good stuff, though; part of my problem this week was looking through related pages and the like, it probably increased my reading load …

It Must Be Mined!

kjdavies December 18, 2011 December 29, 2011 YayLeave a comment

Well, what else would be the past tense of “it must be mine!”? Called up the FLGS today to see if they would be able to get a copy of Tome of Adventure Design from Frog God Games, when it was available (since it’s still shown as pre-order at FGG). The conversation …

Links of the Week: December 12, 2011

kjdavies December 12, 2011 August 10, 2014 Links of the WeekOne Comment

Another really big day of reading. I was on a course all week — as soon as I write and pass (though I’m not worried about failing) the exam I’ll be a Certified Penetration Test Engineer. Ethical (that is, legal) hacker. However, this left me with little time for keeping …