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Aeon S1E5: More than meets the eye
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Aeon S1E5: More than meets the eye

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October 29, 2015 Dramatis Personae The Commander (Doug) – telekinetic super-soldier with a really angry dog (Yukio). The dog is a powerful ally (250-300 points) and very intelligent and very, very aggressive. Arc Light (Christian) – battlsuited gadgeteer with electrical powers The Rat Queen (Emily) – brick with super-perception; made of actual rats Eamon Finnegan…

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Dragon Heresy major milestone – players book complete

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The Dragon Heresy RPG player-centric book is finished, at least in complete first draft form.  Based off of an extensively edited and modified SRD5.1, the player’s book consists of roughly 172,000 words, or between 235-275 laid-out pages depending on how that goes. You can see the raw dump of the Table of Contents below. This…

Playing with DnD5 Characters – 6th level Eldritch Knight Fighter
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Playing with DnD5 Characters – 6th level Eldritch Knight Fighter

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The final entry in the series is the Eldritch Knight version of the fighter . . . but this one optimized a bit differently than the others, so was a different build due to the INT requirements for spellcasting. I went with Mountain Dwarf so that I could drop my second-highest roll into INT, while…

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Krail’s Folly: Mapquest

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A few days ago I posted this sketch of the local area that will become the Krail’s Folly stomping grounds. I think it’s a relatively compelling little map. But powerpoint just sucks as a graphics tool. Fortunately, I have two other tools at my disposal. ProFantasy’s Campaign Cartographer 3, and Fractal Mapper 8. Unfortunately, I…

Appreciating Game Design and the Size-Speed/Range Table

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I love the Size-Speed/Range table in GURPS. It’s a logarithmic progression where every six steps is a factor of ten in magnitude. Every time I used to look at a scaling issue, I’d try and work it, and work it, and work it . . . and in the end, I’d realize that the answer…