Neitherworld Stories

February 15, 2007

I doodle

I am a horrible fidget. I always have been. I remember my friend Brian used to get incredibly annoyed at me in my seventh grade math class for clicking my pencil. That’s the earliest point at which I can remember being called a fidget. That was somewhen around 20 years ago, though. While gaming, fidgeting can get incredibly annoying to...

February 12, 2007

D20 Herbivores: Part I

In our typical fantasy worlds, we have a lot of monsters. People like their monsters. One problem with the plethora of monsters we usually see in D&D and similar games is that they tend to be all carnivores. Carnivores are scary. In general, herbivores are less scary… with some notable exceptions (hippopotamus, I’m looking at you… and backing away). Of...

February 12, 2007

The Peace of Winter

Once again, I missed Winter War. Really, the big gaming draw for me was Jeff’s Encounter Critical game – but that filled up on Friday. The other big draw was dealers and the auction, but I wasn’t feeling like being around a crowd… and I really don’t need an excuse to drop a ton of money on gaming stuff. It...

February 9, 2007

+0 LA Drow

Here’s my first bit of Open Game Content. I’ve seen a number of complaints on this here intarweb-thing about Drow. Namely, the complaint is that Drow are supposedly impressive spellcasters, yet the game mechanics don’t support that. With a +2 level adjustment, a Drow is going to be far behind a high elf or a human spellcaster of the same...

February 8, 2007

OGC plans

I’m thinking of beginning to include some Open Game Content in this blog. I have two character classes that are written: one that is essentially a remake of the Hexblade from the ground up, focusing upon melee combat, intimidation, and cursing (I call it the Dreadblade) and a Tinker class that is somewhere between Artificer and Bard. I’d like to...

February 2, 2007

Culture-making checklist

I’m in the middle of a project that involves sketching out various cultures for use in D&D campaigns. I’ll provide more details on this as the project progresses, but I thought it might be worthwhile to go through a bit of the process here. The following list was drafted as a set of guidelines. It is not complete, but it...

February 2, 2007

Game Drama II

So, it appears that the player who was having secret identity issues in the Aberrant game has dropped out. This both saddens and frustrates me.

January 31, 2007

We’re the kind of pirates who share…

I’ve written before about the possible use of Google Docs & Spreadsheets in gaming. In the Sky Pirates of Eberron game that I am currently playing in, one of the other players set up a simple Google doc and gave all the players (and the DM) editing privileges on it. The sheet tracks group resources, loot, and experience (by gaming...

January 31, 2007

Welcome to 2007

I have acquired a digital camera. It would not be unreasonable to expect more pictures in this blog in the not-too-distant future.

January 30, 2007

Complete Scoundrel: A second look

Now that I have cooled down from my initial reaction to the Complete Scoundrel, I think I can see some really good stuff in there. I’m saddened that there were some missed opportunities. I can deal with that. Here are some highlights: Prestige Classes: The Master of Masks is one of the coolest prestige classes I’ve seen. I want to...