I feel really bad, I said I’d announce the winner of the Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Contest on May 10, and while I chose the winner, I didn’t go public with it right away. I had two entries, Todd Colstrom’s Dazzling Duelist, and Fabio Milito Pagliara’s Kung Fu. It honestly was difficult to choose between [...]
Category Archives: Carnival
May 15, 2013
Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Contest Winner
May 7, 2013
Old School: Kung Fu
Fabio Milito Pagliara has also provided an Old School for the contest, this one based on material from AD&D 1e Oriental Adventures. Thinking about it this could be a perfect way for many things, among others martial arts, I would take lead from Oriental Adventure AD&D 1st edition (this is an old school post after [...]
May 7, 2013
Old School: Dazzling Duelist
Todd Colstrom provided this entry into the Old School contest. Dazzling Duelist The Dazzling Duelist uses elaborate moves and showmanship to confuse and defeat his opponent. One must apprentice with a master to learn this art, and finding one can be difficult. They often work as fencing instructors in mundane academies or for royal families [...]
Apr 27, 2013
A-Z Challenge Forfeit
I’m going to withdraw and mark this as a forfeit. I simply ran out of time before I have to move house (moving house in three days, April 30). I’ve been scrambling to get ready for that, tomorrow I break my office down, Monday I finish off disassembling furniture and signing papers, then Tuesday everything [...]
Apr 23, 2013
Teratic Monster Design
I’m sure it’s no secret to anyone how much I like Teratic Tome by Rafael Chandler. I’ve written a review of it, and I think it will affect how I design monsters in future. Rafael focused primarily on bad things, and a few neutral-but-dangerous ones. I want to explore some of the ‘good guys’. I think [...]
Apr 21, 2013
Spotlight: Raging Swan Press
I’ve only written a handful of reviews, but they tend to be for single products or perhaps a very small number of related products (such as if I were to finally do the review I’ve been threatening to of Jack Shear’s Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque books). Sometimes, though, reviewing a single product doesn’t really do [...]
Apr 21, 2013
Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day Contest
I suspect this may have gotten lost in the shuffle :) I was one of the four blogs chosen to devise a way to give away a copy of Swords & Wizardry Complete in PDF. In my Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day post (Old Schools: Swords & Wizardry) I described how characters could learn special abilities [...]
Apr 19, 2013
Religion in Seekers of Lore
I realized today that clerics may have to work differently in Seekers of Lore than I was expecting. This is something of an exploratory article, I don’t know what the conclusion will be. First Thoughts Part of the premise of Seekers of Lore is that experience points are gained by discovering and recovering that which [...]
Apr 18, 2013
Quick Map, A Bit of Experimentation
I’ve done a lot of writing this month, I figured I’d knock off a little map quickly in GIMP and call it a day. This one is a little experimental. For determining landforms I usually use a technique where I draw the general shape, then overlay some noise and select a range of colors from [...]
Apr 17, 2013
Pathfinder Big Books
Pathfinder made quite a few changes to Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, some subtle and some not so subtle. I like quite a few of the presentation changes, and some of the character development changes excited me. Barbarian rage powers, paladin mercies, sorcerer bloodlines, all these choices excited me. Over time, though, with the Ultimate series [...]
