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December 5, 2006

WoAdWriMo: thoughts on adventure design

Over at the WoAdWriMo forum, I alluded to something unusual I was thinking of doing with the adventure I want to write. In short, the point is to make the adventure useful to as many people as possible. I’d considered statting things out in multiple systems, but realistically, the vast majority of people who would run the adventure would do...

December 4, 2006

Introducing Bart

Angela is planning on running an every-other-Sunday or so D&D game in the old Wraith time slot. She’s never run D&D before. She’s barely played D&D, really, but she grew up possessing an old 1e Monster Manual, which she loved. She’s obsessed with creating ecological and environmental detail and has an encyclopedic knowledge of zoology, which she will use. In...

December 1, 2006

WoAdWriMo

Jeff has declared June as Worldwide Adventure Writing Month. One month. One ready-to-run adventure. Any game system. I’m doing Swamp Castle for D&D: sunken castles, savage lizardfolk, a hidden enemy, and a bard who just wants to sing…

November 30, 2006

Dice innovation?

Introducing the p20. …or something.

November 29, 2006

I Charge the Cthuloid Horror!

Last night was the middle of the end of the ridiculously-high-powered epic/gestalt game. We killed gods, and it was fun. I’ve been out of town for Thanksgiving and lacked net access for most of a week. My Hexblade revision is nearly done. I still need to balance some powers. It looks like a number of games I’m involved in are...

November 16, 2006

Neat Tool?

I’ve been playing with Google Docs and Spreadsheets a bit lately. In the past, I’ve used Excel-based character sheets for various games. I’m thinking that I might try to find some good character sheets that I can upload to the spreadsheets bit. Benefits: Character sheets are always available via the web. When I get an e-mail with an xp award...

November 13, 2006

d20 Class Creation Rule 2

Rule 2: Find the Single/Multi-Class Balance This rule has a number of parts. The first of these is detailed on the Wizards website, so I won’t go into it too much. Briefly, the idea is that when designing a class, it is important to make sure that every level gives a character something. My gloss on this is that a...

November 13, 2006

d20 Class Creation Rules: Rule 1

I’ve been working on my rewrite of the Hexblade that I’ve alluded to here before. I thought it would, perhaps, be worthwhile to comment on my general priorities in terms of class creation – both to solidify them for myself and because there is some small chance that someone might read this and find it interesting. Here is the first...

November 6, 2006

Crossroads in the Dust

Last night was the last game of what was probably the longest-running Wraith LARP in the world. It began in the mid/late 90s as a spin-off from Champaign-Urbana’s One World by Night Vampire game. Initially, it was a play-test of expanded Wraith LARP rules written by some of the game masters – and there was only one player at first....

November 3, 2006

NoNaNoWriMo

I was seriously considering trying my hand at NaNoWriMo this year, but it looks like work is entering into a ridiculously-busy phase. I will, however, include herein an excerpt from last year’s abortive attempt at novel-writing: * “My door is covered in scissors.” Tom spoke these words several times as he stood outside at the base of the stairs leading...