Links of the Week Delayed Again
… but this time it should be less than last time. I’ve got things tuned so I can cover more ground when I’m reading. I should have a post in the hopper in the next couple of days, no labs to do this week.
Year: 2012
Whither B/X?
I’ve been reading B/X Blackrazor since I really started getting into RPG blogs, and I have a copy of a Companion set, but… where can I find the base set? Context suggests it’s a specific rule set, but my google-fu is failing me and I have been unable to put …
Falling off the RNG
‘Falls off the RNG’ is an expression many designers use to describe designs that cause two characters of comparable power to have large enough differences that they exceed the size of the random number generator (RNG, usually dice in a tabletop RPG). At this point it is impossible for the …
Falling off the RNG (Heavy Lifting)
In order to simplify my Falling off the RNG post, I removed a lot of the detailed calculations. I felt they detracted from the post itself. However, they may still be of interest (and I’d hate to throw them away after the time and effort I put into them). I’m …
Fantastic Locations: January 26, 2012 Roundup
Heh, cool. Almost half of the first two pages when I google ‘fantastic locations’ have to do with this carnival. Throw in ‘rpg blog carnival’ and it was page six before I started finding more than one or two per page that weren’t directly related. Sweet! Here is this week’s …
Links of the Week: January 23, 2012
Okay, I’m caught up through January 17, I’m going to call it a wrap for this week’s links. Topic: D&D Fifth Edition … but they’re not calling it that. Wizards of the Coast announced they are working toward the ‘next iteration’ of D&D (they are being coy about calling it …
Fantastic Locations: January 19, 2011 Roundup
Not so many posts for the RPG Blog Carnival on Fantastic Locations this week, but some quite good ones. I had aimed to post every day myself, and that plan was pretty solidly kicked in the teeth about this time last week (I’ve given up on the Links of the …
On Alignments and Energy Types
Bruce Cordell asks at http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/blog/2012/01/18/holy_and_radiant if the ‘radiant’ and ‘holy’ damage types should (poll actually says ‘can’, but conversation at google+ says he really means ‘should’ if it makes more sense) exist in the same game. I didn’t take part in the poll because I think the poll is poorly …
Link of Fame: Spray-On Skin
I usually try to keep things polite here, but I am so stunned by this I have no better way to say it. Right now my brain is oscillating between ‘oh wow’ and ‘holy shit this is awesome’. It is still in trial, but they may have a way to …
Links of the Week Delayed
This week’s Links of the Week post will be delayed for probably a couple of days. I’ve been revising my process for reading and have it better, but there was some necessary adjustment on the way, and I’ve got some network penetration testing labs to complete.