I received my copy of Never Unprepared: The Complete Game Master’s Guide to Session Prep by Phil Veccione on Friday. I read it over the next couple of evenings (perhaps two hours total). Conclusion: A very good addition to my bookshelf. My background is quite similar to Phil’s. I’ve been …
This isn’t the announcement I was hoping to post today, I’ve got some more work to do before I’m ready to open the doors on the RPG blog planet. Things are coming along, but I am now looking for more data. Right now I’m pulling from a couple of my …
Demons and rituals are both staples of fantasy. I’d like to see what I can do with them, especially integrating these topics with ideas from the Books and Libraries reworking I am doing. D&D a much better job here overall, with a great deal more material and application in the …
Tomes, grimoires, dusty libraries, all have been used in any number of stories. They have varying importance in role playing games, from terribly (and terrifyingly) important in Call of Cthulhu to being MacGuffins in certain adventure scenarios to being where you can exchange gold for questions answered. I have noticed …
Hi Pop, We were raiding a mine captured by orcs last time I wrote. Things went well overall, for us. The guys searched the room we just killed some orcs in, while Goraj and I waited out in the hall. Good thing we did, we saw a troop of orcs …
I postponed the last two Links of the Week posts because I have been busy working on another project and really have had time to do much blog post reading. When I go blog reading I do it in blocks of time measuring in hours. I have not had the …
I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I’m putting off Links of the Week for another week. My time has been spent mostly reading and experimenting with WordPress themes. I’m getting close, but it’ll be a couple more days I think… but this week, I am not going to …
Most likely skipped altogether. Instead of my usual activities, I’ve been spending my time this week on something else I talked about some time ago. Hopefully later this week I’ll be able to go public and see how much of my initial features list I’ve actually managed to hit.
Hi Pop, Not much to say today and I’m in a bit of a hurry, we’re in a mine with some orcs. We left the village and took a ferry… ten gold a head to cross the water, and the same for the horses! Ah well, we were still ahead …
For some time now I’ve been dissatisfied with how some cleric domains are implemented. Overall there are things I like, and places where I find them lacking. I think domains can use a general tuneup. Things I like about D&D 3.x domains: They provide a set of related spells that …