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February 12, 2008

DM Organizational Tool-Tip

On Sunday, Angela ran D&D… and it was a fairly combat-heavy game for that campaign (we tend to avoid combat). The first fight involved a bunch of Phantom, Sand-form Skiurids (shadow-squirrels with a couple of weird templates). Angela has taken to marking up the battlemat with an identifying number next to each opponents’ miniature. This works reasonably well, but she’s...

November 28, 2007

Cool Exalted Link

J.T. sent me a link to this German site for Exalted: http://www.dcs-designs.de/. It contains character sheets, combat cheat-sheets, the elusive and confusing Exalted calendar, and a pdf book of rebalanced weapons among other things.

October 12, 2007

A new low?

I never expected to link to Something Awful… but today’s Photoshop Phriday is all D&D monsters… starting off with an owlbear.

October 11, 2007

Weird monsters

You thought the Fiend Folio was weird? Welcome to Japan. Check out the Obakemono Project. (they also have a great resource page…)

October 3, 2007

Something to keep an eye on…

The Writer’s Symposium is a group of 20 science fiction/fantasy-type writers who hold seminars and such at Gen Con designed to help writers write. I attended one of these… and, to be honest, I wasn’t terribly impressed. It quickly devolved into “why I like to write sex scenes.” On the other hand, these are writers – not professional public speakers...

October 2, 2007

XO Giving

I’ve been looking at the XO Giving program of the One Laptop Per Child Project. For $400, you buy two of these fascinating little green laptops. One of them goes to a child in a developing country. The other one you keep. There’s some controversy about the laptop and the program, but I think that it is a fascinating experiment...

August 10, 2007

I’m back

It was good to be in New Orleans. Now I am back. The guest house I was staying in was awesome. They had an internet connection, but I mostly stayed connected via my nefty-new phone (a Treo 700). It occurred to me that the Treo probably has some good gaming uses, other than being a handy calculator. It can function...

June 6, 2007

The Challenge Format, revisited

A few days ago, I mentioned the Challenge Format of as a method of presenting non-encounter challenges in a written adventure. I expect the format to evolve a bit more as WoAdWriMo progresses, but it has already changed a bit from where it was when I started. I thought I’d share that with the world. So, how have things changed?...

June 1, 2007

The Challenge Format

In thinking about my WoAdWriMo adventure, I realize that not every challenge to be overcome by the party is a monster to be defeated in combat. Sometimes there is a puzzle to be solved or a short quest to be completed. Many of these transcend the physical location that they are found in, so embedding them in the text describing...

February 23, 2007

Cartography Tools

I was poking around on EN World and found this beginning cartography tutorial by Jürgen Hubert. It uses Inkscape and GIMP, both of which are free open-source programs. Since Inkscape is a vector-based program, the maps produced can be altered without completely redoing them. The tutorial itself looks decent, but the thread as a whole is full of links to...

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