I like watching Kickstarter for new projects. I think the pledge model is a wonderful way to get things off the ground. I’d really like to see Ben’s latest project, “Encounters ~ Plots ~ Places“, make it to production. He’s about a fifth of the way there now, and a …
I’ve been busy this week and haven’t been able to spend so much time reading other blogs… but I think I found some good links this week anyway. Topic: “My Edition of D&D” The Rhetorical Gamer goes into how he might change races if he were redesigning D&D. Short form: …
Given the recent speculation based on posts at Wizards of the Coast, I thought I’d share something I just saw on Google+ (and the link to Margaret Weis’ comment it refers to). Via Matthew Brenner: In a recent post on the Dragonlance forums, Margaret Weis “confirms” that Wizards of the …
Lots of articles this week, and a wide range of topics. I take that back. I just looked at the preview, and it’s huge. I’d cut it down, but there was a lot of good material out there this week. I’ve been reading so much lately it’s been cutting into …
From time to time a number of RPG bloggers will decide that some topic or another would be fun to post on. This time, wombat proposed and organized a festival called “Winter is Coming”. Winter is Coming (http://gamerblog.twwombat.com/2011/09/winter-is-coming-rpg-blog-festival.html) I meant to join this festival but didn’t have an opportunity to …
This video has been making the rounds in blogs and social media sites (Google+, Facebook) for a few days now, and I’m far from the first to post this… But I must admit, this video has me looking up the rest of the series. Classic(-style) metal, complete with arcane allusions …
I’ve been posting my “Links of the Week” for a few weeks now, but from time to time I run into one that deserves immediate mention. This article at Hack & Slash, “On Cultivating the Fantastic“, discusses how the need to understand and explain everything has gradually stripped away much …
I decided to update the theme on this site (it was maintenance day — theme replaced, a few plugins updated, and so on) to look more like the Echelon d20 site. If you notice any problems, anything not working, anything missing, please send me a message to let me know.
No real theme this week, but I am unusually excited about the West Marches material (as shown by my post yesterday talking about starting my own campaign in a similar style). Topic: “My Edition of D&D” I’m going to start off with a couple of related posts. With Monte Cook …
Ben Robbins had what looks like a very good sandbox campaign, and a remarkable way of managing PCs available at any given time. This post describes how I think I’ll go about giving it a try, because it sounds like it’ll work very well for me, given the difficulties I’ve had in maintaining a steady group of players online… and the design requirements for any particular session are relatively small compared to my normal campaign design mechanisms. I’m looking for players and possibly co-GMs.