May 9, 2006 Hmmm… I’m not yet sure what to make of this blog entry over on Ludanta Retero, but I think it is important.
May 3, 2006 Playing Softball Yesterday, over on his gameblog, Jeff was talking about a game he ran last night and the possibility of a total party kill. I’m a player in the game (and the TPK didn’t happen by a long shot), but that wasn’t what really hit home about his blog entry. What really made an impact was when he said: But times...
April 28, 2006 Neitherworld Frustrations The more I work on the multiple-player/one-character model for Neitherworld, the more I become convinced that it isn’t feasible to meet all of my gameplay goals for that model. At this point, I am fairly convinced that I cannot write a game in which all of the players portray the same character unless either (1) the players take competitive roles...
April 28, 2006 I be a DM So, last night I ran my first-ever d20 game. It is a campaign I’ve been planning to run for my housemates and unofficial household members for awhile now. I think it went well. I framed it around a small trade caravan – as it seemed a good way of keeping the PCs together and forming a bond between them. I...
April 17, 2006 d20 Tweaking: Hacking Classes So, in the game I am about to begin running, I have four players. One of them had a solid concept. He was toying with playing a Ranger, but didn’t see his character as a spellcaster (much less a divine spellcaster). I showed him the Scout class. He was hooked. Another wanted to play a tinker-type character with some spellcasting....
April 17, 2006 Catching up and a new beginning It has been awhile since I last posted. That doesn’t mean I’ve been idle: 1. I’ve been working on an article for the Silven Trumpeter. It will focus on addressing moral issues in rpgs.2. I’ve been setting up the groundwork for the D&D campaign that I’ll be running for my roomates/extended household. More on this below.3. I’ve been making a...
March 26, 2006 Exalted 2nd ed. Character Sheet I got bored yesterday, and created what may one day become a semi-workable character sheet for Exalted 2nd ed. Here is the first draft of it.
March 24, 2006 Sorcerer I was reading this thread on The Forge, which was linked to in Ben Lehman’s Blog, and got inspired by it to come up with a quick outline for a Sorcerer setting. I don’t know what it is about that game that begs for it to be modded to other settings. Anyway, the idea? Sorcerers are post-war veterans. Demons are...
March 24, 2006 Mandate of Heaven So, I picked up the Exalted 2nd Ed. Storyteller’s Companion last night. I did this primarily to check out the Mandate of Heaven rules. There is a thread on rpg.net with a good overview of these rules, so I won’t go into too much detail here. Essentially, the Mandate of Heaven rules are like Civilization: the RPG set in the...
March 20, 2006 Too much gaming Right now, I’m involved in a lot of gaming. It isn’t taking up quite as much of my life as it did when I was really involved with LARPing (and this is a very good thing), but it has gotten to the point where I have regularly had to put off plans to do productive things (like organize the kitchen,...