A few weeks ago I mentioned the Kaidan Campaign Setting (for Pathfinder) in my Links of the Week. This is a setting based on Japanese myth. Not the friendly happy kind that gave us Totoro, but the kind that would have people locking their doors and following ritual to stay …
I was really excited by the Reaper Miniatures Kickstarter. To be honest, I still am excited by it. I backed it for a while. Then I added up just how much I’ve backed and found I had over $500 backing for projects closing in the next month. I dropped it …
Erik Tenkar runs the Adventurer Conqueror King or Die! campaign most Saturday nights. The session reports I’ve been posting for the last couple months are shameless pandering to his ego (in exchange for a 10% increase in XP… I’m not proud). We recently acquired henchmen who accompany us into the …
Cool, Ryan Dancey’s still around. Here, he gives a talk highlighting the difference between ‘Theme Park’ and ‘Sandbox’ MMOs, namely that in a sandbox it is possible to change the world… and that makes a big, big difference. I found it very illuminating, especially the realization that if you give …
This link is thanks to Jonathan Roberts at Fantastic Maps. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection shows historical maps overlaid on Google Earth the locations they map. You can even reduce their opacity (via slider) so you can compare them, one on top of the other. Given today’s satellite and other remote …
Oh god, Reaper Miniatures and Kickstarter, why do you do this to me? Look what $100 gets you now! … if the image is missing, it’s because Reaper added more and changed the image, and the old one died. Go to the Kickstarter project to see the current set and I’ll update …
Update: already backed, 13,122/9,000. 127 backers and someone took the big one for $2,800. Oh Kickstarter, you get me in trouble sometimes. [Actually, that’s not quite true… yet. My wife hasn’t said a word about my little bad habit here, she even likes the PennyGems because they’re “shiny and sparkly”] I’ve wanted …
John Stater of The Land of Nod (I know the hostname is ‘matt-landofnod’, I don’t ask questions about these things) wrote a book. Possibly more than one, but it’s only one that I’m going to talk about today. Blood & Treasure Players Tome is pretty close to being what I …
My son checked the mail yesterday and brought me a small package from a little place called Lulu. My copy of John Stater’s Blood &Treasure was here! I read pretty much all of the character section, and skimmed the rest (spell descriptions no longer interest me the way they used to…) …
If there was an injury that would encourage me to get cybernetics, it would be the loss of eyesight. If I lost a hand or other extremity I would likely consider a prosthetic, but even the most advanced ones are pretty non-invasive. Replacing an eye would be very much more …
