I was invited by +Alicia Sofie Davis and joined by +Christopher Sniezak over on Gigaventure’s end of year podcast to chat about The Year of Our Blog 2014.
Observation gets a lot of confusion and hate on the boards due to some fluff text in the beginning. Still, what’s going on with Perception and other perception-based skills? When should each be used? Perception As far as I can tell, this one is simply sensory acuity, with a small side-order of data processing. One…
I’m curious as to what people think of Savage Worlds. It’s one of the systems that seem to have been adopted somewhat broadly, and people say good things about it. I downloaded the 16-page Test Drive v6 and read through it. I definitely have opinions. But . . . I’ve never played, and you can’t…
Do you hear the people sing, Singing the song of angry men? It is the music of a people Who will not be slaves again! That’s more or less where we left off, with the bunch of us victorious in the first battle, but winded, wounded, depleted of resources, and facing a very large number…
So, Pyramid has an upcoming issue on Swashbucklers and Pirates. I’m playing in a Pathfinder Skull and Shackles campaign GMed by +Jeromy French. This puts me in a piratical mood, and I was thinking this morning about what would happen if the typical DnD or Dungeon Fantasy world were to take to the open seas. This…
I just spent far too long writing up instructions. I will try and paste them into this post, but I will also upload the file. The Word 2013 File. The PPT file with my diagrams The actual PDF I found with a Newstead Pattern harness This may get ugly. I’m not going to take a…
A while ago, I wrote a note about the relative perils of doing what is effectively a joint venture between any two companies. This was in relation to how cool I thought it would be, nonetheless, to have the world of Golarion written up for GURPS, and available for actual adventures. I’m playing and writing about…