A question for RPG designers (pro and amateur, whatever): What is the bare minimum core rule set required to get a game off the ground? Assumptions: Characters are already created (half a dozen pregen). Character-specific rules are attached to the character sheet and don’t need to be repeated, spells and …
Not a lot of time to read blogs this week, I’ve been doing a fair bit of writing, and got in some good game play Saturday night. I do have some additions to the Hall of Fame and a Kickstarter project that excites me no end. Hall of Fame Cartographer’s …
Hey Pop, how’s it going? Good, I’m glad your leg’s doing better. I’m doing fine, thanks, but it was touch and go a couple times. Y’know how I hooked up with that group and we cleaned out Paco’s salt mine? Well, after that Father Oran asked us to look into …
For the last three weeks I’ve been part of a group playing in a campaign using the Adventurer Conqueror King System, being run by Erik Tenkar, in a Google Hangout and using Tabletop Forge. This is proving to be a lot of fun. The group is formed of several other …
Justin Halliday asked on google+ about peoples’ book collections. I decided to put up some pictures of mine. (Yeah, ‘gallery’, much more convenient way to display a bunch of pictures than embedding them individually. derp) There are a handful of books actually on my desk that I didn’t get a …
I haven’t seen nearly the traffic for this RPG Blog Carnival: Fantastic Creations that I did for Fantastic Locations, so I’ve decided to do a mid-month roundup rather than weekly. Round-Up As with the Fantastic Locations roundups, presented in order of blog title and (approximately) date. Exchange of Realities Simple …
I posted a few new magic items last week a couple weeks ago (I’ve been too busy to take part in the RPG Blog Carnival I’m hosting, how sad is that?), and got some favorable response to them. I thought people may be interested in how I devised them. The …
I first saw this blog post from Joe the Peacock a few weeks ago. The link was posted to google+ and I decided to sit on it for a while before seeing if I could get it going again. From the post, This is a story about a boy who …
The Grumpy Dwarf at Tenkar’s Tavern has been riffing on (and ripping up) posts at Wizards of the Coast regarding their next edition of D&D (and I see there’s a new one up tonight, in response to today’s latest post at WotC about Balancing Wizards in D&D). Discussing the new …
Considering my last Links of the Week went up only five days ago, this one seems to have a fair bit in it. I’m still lagging way behind on my blog reading (and my own writing again; it’s been busy) but I’m still seeing a lot of good stuff out …
