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 …
I almost forgot! I’ll be hosting the RPG Blog Carnival again, starting a week from now. The topic will be ‘Fantastic Creations’. Magic items, cyborgs, golems, sonic screwdrivers, how to make any of the above, what to do with them, and so on. I think it’ll be fun, and joining …
I had some Second Thoughts about Random Encounter Tables. Erik Tenkar likes using three dice for his random encounter tables because he likes the curve, and planned to have deliberate, potentially large gaps in the table so he could combine the random encounter check (determine whether there is one) and …
After talking about Building Random Encounter Tables a couple days ago, I’ve seen a few suggestions that could improve the results somewhat. Erik Tenkar talks about deliberately leaving blanks in the random encounter table so a single table handles not only the selection of encounter but whether or not there …
Playing catchup again, I’m back into the same month (barely; I’ve finished off up to April 3…). A busy couple of weeks at work and home as well, and I’m going to be losing about half a day or more per weekend on going to the market (fresh local vegetables …
I was chatting with Martin Ralya (from Gnome Stew) about building random encounter tables and thought I’d try to capture some of my thoughts here. For a long time I’ve leaned toward simulationism in gaming. I wanted to know why everything was and for it to make sense. As you …
I haven’t had a lot of response to my question about a New RPG Blog Planet, but what I have had has ranged from “sounds like a good idea” (with suggestions for alternatives) to “SQUEEE!” (which I interpret as fairly positive). I’ve had a bit more time to think about …