I’ve been reading B/X Blackrazor since I really started getting into RPG blogs, and I have a copy of a Companion set, but… where can I find the base set? Context suggests it’s a specific rule set, but my google-fu is failing me and I have been unable to put …
‘Falls off the RNG’ is an expression many designers use to describe designs that cause two characters of comparable power to have large enough differences that they exceed the size of the random number generator (RNG, usually dice in a tabletop RPG). At this point it is impossible for the …
In order to simplify my Falling off the RNG post, I removed a lot of the detailed calculations. I felt they detracted from the post itself. However, they may still be of interest (and I’d hate to throw them away after the time and effort I put into them). I’m …
Heh, cool. Almost half of the first two pages when I google ‘fantastic locations’ have to do with this carnival. Throw in ‘rpg blog carnival’ and it was page six before I started finding more than one or two per page that weren’t directly related. Sweet! Here is this week’s …
Okay, I’m caught up through January 17, I’m going to call it a wrap for this week’s links. Topic: D&D Fifth Edition … but they’re not calling it that. Wizards of the Coast announced they are working toward the ‘next iteration’ of D&D (they are being coy about calling it …
Not so many posts for the RPG Blog Carnival on Fantastic Locations this week, but some quite good ones. I had aimed to post every day myself, and that plan was pretty solidly kicked in the teeth about this time last week (I’ve given up on the Links of the …
Bruce Cordell asks at http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/blog/2012/01/18/holy_and_radiant if the ‘radiant’ and ‘holy’ damage types should (poll actually says ‘can’, but conversation at google+ says he really means ‘should’ if it makes more sense) exist in the same game. I didn’t take part in the poll because I think the poll is poorly …
I usually try to keep things polite here, but I am so stunned by this I have no better way to say it. Right now my brain is oscillating between ‘oh wow’ and ‘holy shit this is awesome’. It is still in trial, but they may have a way to …
This week’s Links of the Week post will be delayed for probably a couple of days. I’ve been revising my process for reading and have it better, but there was some necessary adjustment on the way, and I’ve got some network penetration testing labs to complete.
A few months ago I posted about a different model for hit points and healing, then followed up a few weeks ago with a post considering some of the implications of making those changes. One of the lingering thoughts I’ve had is that it comes close to modeling desired behavior …
