I recently posted a description in a comment to a blog post of how I handle experience and level gains that I thought I should include on my own site. In considering how to write it, I realized it might be worth exploring a few other models of character development …
Some sample ‘wax seals’ I’ve thrown together to explore how they might fit into Greg’s game Freebooter. And what they might look like when applied to the page. Not quite done, I see a couple of other options that I might like better… but for a quick test I figured …
It’s just an idle thought, really, but what if vampires (in D&D in particular) actually needed intelligent prey? They don’t chase them because they’re into gorgeous women in diaphanous nightgowns (though, honestly, that’s a good enough reason for me), but because their own intellect and ability to hold back their bestial …
In AD&D 2e you could choose your weapon and nonweapon proficiencies (optional rule), thieves could choose how to distribute their skill points, and (in the Complete Priests Handbook) speciality priests could have different ‘spheres’ that controlled what spells they had access to and influenced the powers they received. D&D 3e started making …
Well, I’m not going to GenCon this year (maybe next year; my kids will be 15 and 10 so it might be good for them), but a comment I saw on google+ a few minutes ago reminded me of going to GenCon 2003 with a friend. We were at the …