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I’ll start with the obvious: content has been thin on the ground here for a while in terms of stuff that’s not just updates to my production process/crowdfunding efforts. This one won’t be much different, but it’s a bit of a download on what’s going on. A Bit of Chaos First thing, the last few…
With all the excitement about he DF Boxed Set, and even with my interview, there’s a lot of information +Sean Punch has put out there in the DF threat of the SJG Forums. I’ve collected it here into one post. Hopefully it’ll help someone. What is the DF Boxed Set What This Is: A standalone roleplaying game,…
My post on what guns do in GURPS and storytelling got me thinking about false precision in games that rate damage by HP ablation. I’ll pick on GURPS, but DnD/Pathfinder is, in its way, not much different. Ironically, I don’t think people really notice as much in Pathfinder, since the entire point of an attack…
+Charles Akins gave Gaming Ballistic a nod as one of the “Ten RPG Blogs Everyone Should Be Reading.“ His entry for GB reads: 4. Gaming Ballistic by Douglas Cole Before I started reading Douglas Cole I avoided GURPS like the plague. I labored for years under false beliefs about the game and foolishly ignored a robust system that…
We see action coming out of the manor as we start out. Ten spearmen, a couple of men-at-arms, and a few carts and wagons. We decide to anticipate them heading to Lervin, so we can set an ambush at the bridge (B) from Lervin to Phandalin – the route with the best road. We guess…
I am looking for some help with finding appropriate level advancements for four “new” schools of magic for Wizards. The four schools each combine two of the existing traditions, which themselves have been associated with a particular futhark rune as part of the setting. The School of Doors includes the rune-magic of ansuz (divination) and…