As +Peter V. Dell’Orto noted, I’ve spent a lot of time this vacation writing. An exchange we had on passing back the twenty-third revision of one of the two projects we’ve been collaborating on made me appreciate for the Nth time the value of playtesting, and also what “simple” means. I do a lot of spreadsheet work when…
Over on Dungeon Fantastic, +Peter V. Dell’Orto has a rules thought about doing the Feint maneuver a bit differently. Go read it. I’ll wait. His overall thought boils down to that the Feint is an enabling roll, that all you have to do is win the quick contest. High skill just makes winning that much more sure,…
Purchased and played Pandemic with my wife last night. Interesting game. I like the cooperative aspect, so that was cool. She drew the Scientist, I drew the Quarantine Specialist. That was something that was harder to keep track of, and I know that I could have foiled a few outbreaks that I forgot. We had…
This marks the end of the Violent Resolution blog series here on Castalia House. I’d like to thank Jeffro for recommending me, and Castalia House for giving me a shot at publishing this series on the different facets of combat mechanics in my chosen systems. What did I take away from it all? Narrative Games…
Peter Dell’Orto, over at Dungeon Fantastic, just posted a link to a First Edition DnD treasure trove generator. I do vaguely remember “Treasure Type,” and would have to look for it more closely. But I tried it out randomly, and got some really neat results. Treasure Type D; 3 repeats, verbose gems “on.” Treasure Type…
Thursday is GURPS Day Well knock me over with a feather. Something I started doing on a lark almost three full years ago, but kept up pretty steadily, was to declare that Thursday was GURPS Day (‘it must be true, because it rhymes’). Here in the Daily Illuminator is the awesome and flattering (to me)…
