This week’s interesting links. Age of Ravens Kingdom of Staircases: A Microscope AP (http://ageofravens.blogspot.com/2011/08/kingdom-of-staircases-microscope-ap.html) Ever since GreyKnight turned me on to Microscope (from Lame Mage Productions) I’ve loved the idea of it. It’s a collaborative history-building and world-building ‘game’ where the players design a world by assertion. Play bounces around …
A few weeks ago I joined the RPG Blog Alliance (with both KJD-IMC.org and EchelonD20.org) and have been reading a huge number of really interesting articles. Yes, this has reduced my productivity by eating time I could be spending on my own writing. However, it has also provided me with …
Or perhaps these just in. The C&C players handbook and Monsters and Treasures book from the sale Troll Lord just ended; Savage Worlds Deluxe rulebook; Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett et al. (which has been out of print for a while and rather harder — read “OMG …
I recently posted a description in a comment to a blog post of how I handle experience and level gains that I thought I should include on my own site. In considering how to write it, I realized it might be worth exploring a few other models of character development …
Some sample ‘wax seals’ I’ve thrown together to explore how they might fit into Greg’s game Freebooter. And what they might look like when applied to the page. Not quite done, I see a couple of other options that I might like better… but for a quick test I figured …
It’s just an idle thought, really, but what if vampires (in D&D in particular) actually needed intelligent prey? They don’t chase them because they’re into gorgeous women in diaphanous nightgowns (though, honestly, that’s a good enough reason for me), but because their own intellect and ability to hold back their bestial …
In AD&D 2e you could choose your weapon and nonweapon proficiencies (optional rule), thieves could choose how to distribute their skill points, and (in the Complete Priests Handbook) speciality priests could have different ‘spheres’ that controlled what spells they had access to and influenced the powers they received. D&D 3e started making …
Well, I’m not going to GenCon this year (maybe next year; my kids will be 15 and 10 so it might be good for them), but a comment I saw on google+ a few minutes ago reminded me of going to GenCon 2003 with a friend. We were at the …
GreyKnight is starting a campaign set in the world implied by Nethack, using Pathfinder RPG as his base rule set. Among other things, this requires him to build some new character classes. He has taken a run at the Valkyrie class and asked for some comments and suggestions. This post …
Now that GreyKnight’s working on Echelon as a contributor, I figured I’d post new Echelon-related materials to http://www.echelond20.org/ instead of here. I may or may not migrate the existing articles from here to there (probably not), but new material here will likely be more focused on what happens in my …