A fair bit of variety to this week’s links. I’m off work until April 10, so I’m trying arrange to do some writing of my own. Kickstarter Projects BlackDiamond at Quest for Fun! has an interesting point regarding Kickstarter and Retailers. When setting up a Kickstarter project, consider a ‘retailer’ …
Erik at Tenkar’s Tavern has Some Thoughts On Criticals – Curving the Scores. In short, he isn’t so keen on the common approaches (maximum/double damage on a natural 20, or natural 20 plus confirmation roll). He suggests an alternative rule where if you roll five or more above the number …
On reconsideration, Dungeons of Carcassonne could be almost playable (if not very good) pretty soon. Some thoughts from today: Danger of a room is equal to the number of tiles in the room plus the number of dead meeples (dead meeples means the room is clearly more dangerous than its …
A conversation on Google+ has made me think, more and more, about adapting Carcassonne as a tile-based dungeon crawl. I don’t have the details in mind yet, but here are some ideas to start ‘Roads’ are now ‘passages’, complete with branches and loops. ‘Cities’ are now ‘rooms’ (or caverns, whatever). …
A fair amount of material this week. Not so many blog posts linked, but I’ve spent more time writing this week (Links of the Week and other material)… and I’m reaching the point again where I want to invest more in writing than in reading. … I’m still finding lots …
At Tenkar’s Tavern, Erik has some unkind things to say about the latest Rule of Three he’s read. There is the idea that starting at a level higher than first should be reserved for experienced players, and newer players should start at first level to minimize the complexity of their …
Over at SeaOfStarsRPG a recent post discusses The Problem of Immunity. Specifically, how really nothing should be truly immune to any particular effect. Even paladins can be scared (they just deal with it better), and even fire elementals will burn if you manage to throw enough fire on them. In …
Morrisonmp at The Rhetorical Gamer talks about campaign-down design. Briefly, I think it’s a great idea. My Campaign and Scenario Design series talks about how to do exactly what he’s talking about.
In response to Beedo’s question about using weapon specialization in D&D, I said I don’t like using weapon specialization in D&D because I find it useful, but boring. “Useful and boring”… well, it’s useful, but it’s still boring, and I don’t want boring in my game. As much as I …
Beedo of Dreams in the Lich House asks how many people use weapon specialization in D&D. I have used, or allowed the use of, weapon specialization in D&D as long as I can remember. For a while after D&D 3e came out I even played a PC that took it, …