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.
A while ago, a coworker of mine decided to live his dream and publish a boardgame of his own. He worked it, designed it, sourced the art. He started his own game company: Great Northern Games, and made it happen. It’s now on sale, at CoolStuffInc among other places. +Jeffro Johnson interviewed him about it, and now…
I got a nice response to Never Tell Me the Odds, Part 2 from +David Pulver and I thought it was worth responding in a fashion not buried in the comments! Davids words will be in magenta/Arial, my replies in regular text. Nice overview of the two game systems! Thanks. I’m trying to keep it factual and…
This one’s unusual, because I didn’t do it. My Aesir-level playtester +Luke Campbell loves fae and sidhe and all things funky, and he ran a playtest on his desk, taking a notionally high-challenge sidhe – not the rulers, but still powerful – of the Fey and pitting them against four 8th level characters with a typical party…
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…
Here we are. August 1st. I’d posted a hopeful schedule two weeks ago on what I had to do and the timing it was supposed to do down on. Yeah. I’m behind. But maybe not by that much. And the last two weeks have seen me get a yuuge amount done. What’s the Status? Two…
In GURPS, you can pack a lot of action into just a few seconds. But sometimes, you just need even more. While the various attack maneuvers let you strike a blow in the name of science (as an example), sometimes, due to a surfeit of targets or a surplus of awesomeness on your own part,…