The last couple weeks have been remarkably busy for me. This week’s Links of the Week has been delayed and aim to put it up Wednesday morning. Some of the other things I am working on: Devising Fantastic Creations, outlining how I create items such as Beobachten, Palavirea, and Kaiho-sha. …
Sean Holland asked a couple questions about Beobachten. From a comment on that post, Very interesting. But how does it “consume” the treasure? And is it lost forever or is it in some extra-dimesional horde? I think these are good questions, but I can’t really meaningfully answer them, for a …
Another entry for the RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations. Kaiho-sha, the Liberator. I read a story a few years ago, where one of the supporting characters (a warrior and leader of men) had been enslaved. After being freed (rescued by an ally) he decided to take the chain that had …
This is another Fantastic Creation I have had in mind for a while now, though somewhat simpler than Beobachten, the Dragon Watching. I have always liked the idea of wands, but the implementation in D&D has been generally lacking in my mind. Most of them time they are simply canned …
Thanks Nik, for pointing out that everything to do with comments were removed from blog posts. Fixed. If you were trying to provide links to posts relating to the current RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations, you now should be able to.
For my first entry for the RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations, I decided to write up a magic sword that has been lurking in my mind for over a decade. I have long had the image of a sword with a pommel shaped like a dragon’s head. The sword can …
The agent looked around the Mages’ Faire, taking in the displays and the spectacles. The illusions, the charmed monsters, the gouts of flame and bursts of lightning. Of no use to him. As impressive as they were, he needed something less obvious, and more importantly, that did not require gifts …
Just a short one this week, I’ve been busy with work and a few other concerns, including a moderate amount of writing myself. Tomorrow I start hosting another RPG Blog Carnival, “Fantastic Creations”. There was a really good turnout to the Carnival I hosted in January on “Fantastic Locations”, and …
Christopher O’Dell, the Grognardling, talks about Charting Alignment, using a mechanism similar to that used to chart honor in Oriental Adventures. When I’ve considered something like this, I’ve usually found myself treating the various modifiers as ‘encounters’ providing ‘experience points’ toward the alignment. That is, instead of a “+1 to …
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 …
