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.
Over on the forums, a poster asked another about a comment made that the writer used a simplified version of both Technical Grappling and The Last Gasp. The first poster noted that TLG was “complicated,” and asked for what simple rules were in place. While I think I might take exception to the complicated thing,…
In my article from the Violent Resolution series dealing with movement, I noted that in D&D, the standard 30′ move (or even the 60′ dash) is, all things considered, quite slow. It represents six seconds of movement, so is either 5′ per second, or 10′. That’s 3.4 and 6.8mph, respectively. Or a decent walk and…
Movement in GURPS combat is incredibly generous. Every turn, you may begin from a standing stop, travel in one second (or a part of it) up to your Move, which may be 4-7 yards, and wind up perfectly still and balanced, ready to either not move, continue your pace, turn, accelerate to attack speed, or…
I posted my prior article on firearms for D&D over on reddit, and a poster noted that while he thought this was all neat and stuff, he was much more likely to be interested in naval cannon. That seems like a great idea, and I found a nice article online to base some initial stats…
Having delved and fought, the party withdrew, replaced a Ranger with a Fighter, and then re-entered the following day. This time, the rogue approached silently and well, and managed to get the drop on the two kobolds who had brought their mastiffs to guard the entrance after the demise of the guardian hobgoblins the previous…
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…