Neitherworld Stories

December 27, 2007

First Impressions

I got my Paizo/Green Ronin sale order in yesterday: The Freeport Trilogy, Denizens of Freeport, SpirosBlaak, and Temple Quarter (for under $14 total with shipping. not bad.) Work is still insane, so I only really glanced at them. First impressions: The Freeport Trilogy: Not really my first impression. I’d seen it before. Will I find use for it? At least...

December 26, 2007

One-on One Gaming

I ran into this thread on EN World this morning and it got me thinking about GMing for a single player. This is a subject I’ve been interested in for awhile – so much source material for RPGs is based around a single protagonist rather than a team. It seems as though a one-player, one-GM game might be liberating in...

December 23, 2007

Thundarr meets Exalted

I might as well flesh this out a bit, even if I never use it: The First Age was a time of technological wonder. Over a thousand years ago, the spirits arose and magic came into the world. The First Age ended not in a Cataclysm, but in a century-long period of death and rebirth as the technological world struggled...

December 21, 2007

Things I could run: D&D

I’m of two minds about running a D&D game right now. On one hand, d20 is the system that I know the best of those I’m willing to run. (I may know Storyteller better.) On the other, it has a bit of a lame-duck feel to me at the moment. That said, if I were to run a more-or-less-straight D&D...

December 21, 2007

Do I have anything to say…?

I’m really wiped out from work right now. This is the busiest I’ve been in about two years, and there is all kinds of backstabbing political crap going on right now… and it looks like I’m backstabee numero uno. Joy. So, anyway, I’m sorry that I haven’t been updating very much of late. I’ve been preoccupied. That said, I had...

December 18, 2007

Magic Items with Purpose

I always liked the idea of intelligent magic items in D&D with special purposes. I appreciate that 3rd ed expanded the options to include things other than weapons. I was thinking, though… what if all permanent magic items had purposes? Maybe without a purpose, a magic item couldn’t sustain its magic. This wouldn’t require the magic item to be intelligent...

December 17, 2007

That’s no ornament…

My boss hung Christmas ornaments in our office last week. They all look like this: I don’t know why. I keep expecting tiny TIE fighters…

December 14, 2007

WOW! A recipe!

I don’t play World of Warcraft. I’ve never been interested in MMORPGs. Still, I find this sort of offensive. For those too lazy to follow the link, it is to a food blog that I read regularly. It has a recipe for “Murloc Fin Soup” – a bit of Googling tells me that is a soup in WoW that is...

December 13, 2007

I don’t know precisely what D&D 4th edition will look like…

…but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of it looking like the Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords in terms of structure. Ignore the wuxia feel of the book for a moment. What’s the structure of the classes in it? Well, there are different schools of martial maneuvers maneuvers (let’s genericize these a...

December 11, 2007

Brief respite

I have a bit of a breather at work. This is necessary for my sanity after working all weekend and into the wee hours last night. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to give much thought to gaming things of late. I did order a few things from Paizo’s Green Ronin sale (which ends tomorrow) – lots of books are $2....