Over at a post about bows and arrows, here, I used a phrase:
Sense-of-Disbelief-o-Meter.
It occurred to me that the acronym for that is SoDoM.
So when your SoDoM trips in play, you turn into a pillar of salt. Like a proper redshirt should.
I must work the SoDoM into future posts.
Well, been a bit since I’ve looked at Pathfinder, so it’s time to return to the read-through. A retroactive (and oft-repeated) introduction: After an actual-play hiatus where I was mostly writing and playtesting for GURPS. I was invited to play in a Pathfinder game, and after a few sessions, it was time to buy the…
I’m just going to do the druid here, because I want to do the fighters all at once. Remember the situation. A Druid (or other PC) is partnered with a pretty boring and unoptimized 5th level Champion fighter. The Druid will be a complicated fight, I think, because I don’t fully understand the shapechanging and…
The Violent Revolution continues! Perhaps even more important to how a roleplaying game resolves whether or not a fighter strikes home at his foe is how his opponent reacts when struck. I’ve been reading +Jon Peterson‘s “Playing at the World” recently, a densely packed and quite informative history of games, gaming, and (most specifically) Dungeons and…
Had the first full-contact playtest of the Heretical D&D project. Had four playtesters in attendance, and a lot of good back and forth. Let’s see what I can say without giving the game away. Notes and observations in play In no particular order, I found that there were some gaps in how I account for…
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Had a brief interchange (not hostile) with another gamer in a different forum. The question was on Will rolls in gaming, and I noted that in The Last Gasp, I call for a will roll if you’re wanting to do something that drains a (now much more debilitating) Fatigue Point. To quote pieces of the…
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You sure you didn't do a backronym? because it's awfully convenient 😉
I swear. I typed in ". . . this doesn't break my Sense-of-Disbelief-o-Meter" and thought, 'hey, that's a useful concept.' Then I looked at the letters and said: "Oh,that's too good not to use."
As a GM, I do my best to avoid SoDoMizing my players.
See? It just writes itself.