Even more than categories, posts in a series are related to a single recurring topic.
I thought I would expand on an almost incidental idea in Falling off the RNG. I think D&D 3.x has too many armor class values. I believe this is mostly to model certain types of play and to encourage player characters (and other monsters) to act in specific ways. I …
Okay, so this one went up earlier than expected, I forgot how far ahead I’d set it. Ah well, I should have time to catch up this weekend. The RPG Blog Festival: Fantastic Locations wrapped up this week. Over forty submissions from twenty sites, a pretty good turnout overall. It …
I floated an idea yesterday at google+, and figured I’d see if there’s broader appeal. I am considering (because I don’t seem to have enough things to do) starting a sandbox resource site, ideally with shared input. I’d likely create and manage the site but want submissions from other people …
Finally, I am in a position to describe Rime Tower in (hopefully succinct) detail. I started more than two weeks ago looking for Inspiration, applied some Perspiration, and now move to Implementation. Potential (because I’m not describing them now) other entities are highlighted in bold. Text in <angle brackets> indicates …
A couple of days ago I came up with the idea of Rime Tower. I started basically from a blank sheet of paper, some dice, and a small (mmm… about six-inch) stack of RPG books and went looking for ideas. I ended up with a rough idea of what I …
… 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.
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 …
‘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 …
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 …
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 …
