I don’t do a lot of reviews. I should probably do more, actually, I certainly read enough RPG material. Short form: holy balls is this an impressive book. If you like old school and you like freakishly scary and horrifying monsters, BUY THIS BOOK! A few weeks ago Rafael Chandler posted …
I was reviewing my site stats today and saw an inbound link to my Dungeons of Carcassonne post from last year. I’d almost forgotten about it (and the followup post) This happy reminder caused me to consider reposting the link to Google+, and while I looked for an image of …
Many spells in D&D 3.x and Pathfinder differ only in small ways from each other, to the point they are defined in terms of one of them. For instance, Pathfinder has four cure wounds spells, one for each level from first to fourth. Plus a mass version of each. And they can …
I like the Toy Story series. However, I obviously don’t like it the way the folks that did this like it. 80 minutes of Toy Story played through with the actual toys.
As mentioned in my last post, I’m gathering research material for Echelon. I’d been planning to mine Pathfinder for material, and since I had a couple weeks off just now I figured it would be a good time. I had no real idea how much there is out there. I …
My research process for Echelon usually involves pulling as much related material together as possible so I have it all in one place. That way I can work with a single document — print it out, scribble in margins, and so on, rather than packing around several books and something …
Ultimately I didn’t back the Reaper Miniatures Bones Kickstarter, I simply couldn’t afford it with the other things I wanted more. This video makes me smile, though. The initial pan over the minis in the Vampire box is impressive, and just how much is there is really cool. And apparently they’re still …
I have been working on some Rage talents for Echelon and decided the Iron Heroes berserker abilities were a little too thin for my purposes. Thankfully I remembered the Barbarian Rage Powers collected at d20PFSRD.com and decided to raid them. There were rather more than I expected, drawn from the Pathfinder …
This morning, for whatever reason, I was thinking about using other polyhedrons in the Polyhedral Pantheon methodology. I originally considered the Platonic solids, partly because they would give the most consistent results, but mostly because the entire idea was prompted by the Rose of the Prophet series written by Margaret Weis …
I was goofing around a bit today with the Polyhedral Pantheons methodology and ended up with some potentially interesting results. The only constraint I put on the result is that I wanted all nine alignments covered. This requires that the alignment domains be placed on the nodes, with certain relationships …