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 …
Jack McNamee presented Matt Rundle’s Anti-Hammerspace Item Tracker, and I have to say that I like it. It’s quick, it’s workable, and it addresses something few workable encumbrance systems I’ve seen have: just where the stuff is. The short form, modified for D&D 3.x: Each character has up to six …
Scrolls are one of the simpler tables to populate. This isn’t complete yet, but trivially covers most of it. I’d like to see more ‘special writings’, especially at low levels, but scrolls are about it. I could imagine mundane books of interest, but there really isn’t much exciting by way …
I cobbled together a quick worksheet for choosing general items for each treasure type and tier. I want the value of the treasure associated with each card to generally trend upward with the rank of the card (Aces low), and the value between tiers to roughly triple. The values within …