I backed a Kickstarter – Dead Men Tell No Tales
I’m a sucker for games with cooperative play, and have enjoyed the heck out of Pandemic. When I saw Dead Men Tell No Tales on the G+ feed, I decided to pitch in.
Because hey . . . pirates.
I’m a sucker for games with cooperative play, and have enjoyed the heck out of Pandemic. When I saw Dead Men Tell No Tales on the G+ feed, I decided to pitch in.
Because hey . . . pirates.
I had this wild notion that the clothes-hangar trick that I figured out for The Lorica Project would work for larger pieces. As I was driving home the other day – and that’s when crazy thoughts occur to me – I wondered if I could make a simple but awesome breastplate/cuirass that would retain it’s shape….
I did a lot of writing last week, and was up until just shy of 4am on Saturday night trying to finish editing the magical items, treasure, and rewards chapters. For those that come to these pages looking for tons of GURPS content, especially my semi-regular features such as The Reloading Press or even the…
“What the hell is a geniza?” my wife exclaimed, upon seeing the title of the article on the dinner table, where I was (re) reading it in preparation for this review. “Exactly!” I laughed. Ultimately – and remember that although this issue is in the slightly-desported list of lowest total sales, it’s at the top…
We started out, after the usual banter, buying healing potions (4 at 130gp each) and +Peter V. Dell’Orto hired two hirelings and a 14-year old torchbearer. We called them Red 1 and Red 2 to start, and decided that the torchbearer was an exchange student, and we’d be giving him two gp and one credit. We enter…
Holy crap, the ForgedAnvil Character Generator is amazing. Put in an experience total. Put in your raw die rolls or the “standard array.” Then start choosing, using pre-populated drop-down boxes, all the things that can be chosen. Weapons and armor? It’s in there. Spells? Feats? Languages? Yep.Even handy look-ups for spells and feats. Multi-class support?…
We begin with some bookkeeping – we need to pick the three magic items we’ve attuned to, which limits the other players more than Nosphryc, since he only has three magic items. Good news is that reading the descriptions of the Sword of Lendorth and Amulet of Ren again, which provided two key abilities that I can…