This video has been making the rounds in blogs and social media sites (Google+, Facebook) for a few days now, and I’m far from the first to post this… But I must admit, this video has me looking up the rest of the series. Classic(-style) metal, complete with arcane allusions …
I’ve been posting my “Links of the Week” for a few weeks now, but from time to time I run into one that deserves immediate mention. This article at Hack & Slash, “On Cultivating the Fantastic“, discusses how the need to understand and explain everything has gradually stripped away much …
I decided to update the theme on this site (it was maintenance day — theme replaced, a few plugins updated, and so on) to look more like the Echelon d20 site. If you notice any problems, anything not working, anything missing, please send me a message to let me know.
No real theme this week, but I am unusually excited about the West Marches material (as shown by my post yesterday talking about starting my own campaign in a similar style). Topic: “My Edition of D&D” I’m going to start off with a couple of related posts. With Monte Cook …
Ben Robbins had what looks like a very good sandbox campaign, and a remarkable way of managing PCs available at any given time. This post describes how I think I’ll go about giving it a try, because it sounds like it’ll work very well for me, given the difficulties I’ve had in maintaining a steady group of players online… and the design requirements for any particular session are relatively small compared to my normal campaign design mechanisms. I’m looking for players and possibly co-GMs.
Let’s see… I seem to have a lot of campaign setting posts in this week’s link list. Age of Ravens The Road to Doubtfall: A Microscope Alchemical AP (http://ageofravens.blogspot.com/2011/09/road-to-doubtfall-microscope-alchemical.html) Lowell is working on an alchemist-focused campaign. This post describes a Microscope session he ran with his wife regarding this campaign. For such …
This week’s links. Some here I will need to go back and read in greater detail… the ‘Pocket Civ’ (first link) looks really interesting to me, but I haven’t yet had time to dig into it deeper. BattReps Developing a civilization in a pocket (http://battreps.blogspot.com/2011/09/developing-civilization-in-pocket.html) This post describes ‘pocket Civ’, …
This week’s interesting links. Age of Ravens Kingdom of Staircases: A Microscope AP (http://ageofravens.blogspot.com/2011/08/kingdom-of-staircases-microscope-ap.html) Ever since GreyKnight turned me on to Microscope (from Lame Mage Productions) I’ve loved the idea of it. It’s a collaborative history-building and world-building ‘game’ where the players design a world by assertion. Play bounces around …
A few weeks ago I joined the RPG Blog Alliance (with both KJD-IMC.org and EchelonD20.org) and have been reading a huge number of really interesting articles. Yes, this has reduced my productivity by eating time I could be spending on my own writing. However, it has also provided me with …
Or perhaps these just in. The C&C players handbook and Monsters and Treasures book from the sale Troll Lord just ended; Savage Worlds Deluxe rulebook; Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett et al. (which has been out of print for a while and rather harder — read “OMG …