This is another Fantastic Creation I have had in mind for a while now, though somewhat simpler than Beobachten, the Dragon Watching. I have always liked the idea of wands, but the implementation in D&D has been generally lacking in my mind. Most of them time they are simply canned …
Thanks Nik, for pointing out that everything to do with comments were removed from blog posts. Fixed. If you were trying to provide links to posts relating to the current RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations, you now should be able to.
For my first entry for the RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations, I decided to write up a magic sword that has been lurking in my mind for over a decade. I have long had the image of a sword with a pommel shaped like a dragon’s head. The sword can …
The agent looked around the Mages’ Faire, taking in the displays and the spectacles. The illusions, the charmed monsters, the gouts of flame and bursts of lightning. Of no use to him. As impressive as they were, he needed something less obvious, and more importantly, that did not require gifts …
Just a short one this week, I’ve been busy with work and a few other concerns, including a moderate amount of writing myself. Tomorrow I start hosting another RPG Blog Carnival, “Fantastic Creations”. There was a really good turnout to the Carnival I hosted in January on “Fantastic Locations”, and …
Christopher O’Dell, the Grognardling, talks about Charting Alignment, using a mechanism similar to that used to chart honor in Oriental Adventures. When I’ve considered something like this, I’ve usually found myself treating the various modifiers as ‘encounters’ providing ‘experience points’ toward the alignment. That is, instead of a “+1 to …
Nick had a post at Troll in the Corner a while ago titled Evil: A Do-It-Yourself Guide. The gist of it is that evil characters are likely that way for a reason, and most often do have self-control. This means the evil acts they do likely have a reason (if …
For obvious reasons, this post really applies to both of my blogs, or indeed pretty much anywhere I write about what I am designing, working on, or just goofing around with. However, because it was prompted by a question specifically about Echelon, my revision of D&D (and other games), I’ve …
I decided to take some advice and tweaked the site a little. Reduced the sidebar, widened the body text to use the freed space, dropped some widgets, and changed the post headers to a format I think makes them easier to read. I think I got it right. If you …
… I suppose I could have found a way to get a dash in there or something. What’s one more separator in a title? I realized today after Random Encounter Tables: Second Thoughts (Heavy Lifting) went up that the raw percentages might not be so useful overall, but didn’t have …
