Surprise love for The Last Gasp in the SJG Live talk with Steven and Sean
I would never in a billion years thought that the fairly fiddly The Last Gasp would have been one of those that “surprised” and delighted Steven. Woo hoo!
Thinking a bit more about S2E4 of the Aeon campaign, I can’t help coming back to how badly we biffed it, and still managed to pull it out because of a metagame ability – for which I paid many points – to ret-con a whole series of crap decisions. There are certain things you can’t…
The Pathfinder game I play in with +Jeromy French, +kung fu hillbilly , +Matt Sutton , +Joshua Taylor , and +James Stanton is working through Skull and Shackles. We had started playing using the Organized Play rules, but did not find them to our collective liking. So we made the campaign switch, and now are playing characters of the not-nice variety. This is thus my…
A while back, I posited that pretty good results can be obtained by assuming that the Vision bonus for “in plain sight,” that is, +10, applies fairly generically. Certainly it’s a good starting point to see what you can see. But what constitutes a basic roll? A Vision+10 roll for Joe Average will spot something man-sized…
I’ve been spending more time this past week getting the Heretical DnD project a bit farther down field. I went through about three or four different playtest reports and a complete edit of the Adventuring chapter. I have a few things I still need to work out, but by and large, I feel like if…
I used to play in +Ken H‘s Monteporte campaign, and I remember it fondly. Recently, he rebooted it, and posted some session notes here. They struck me with two thoughts. Tangible is Good He writes: Resource and Time Management: We are keeping more careful track of resources, such as food, torches, and arrows. We are also…
After I noted that’d I’d picked out Sons of Odin for music to be played if/when I win an Ennie for this masterpiece of a blog (and when you say masterpiece,you have to say it like Zola from Captain America: The First Avenger). +Peter V. Dell’Orto responded with the audacious and patently invalid suggestion that his…