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Firing Squad Welcomes Liz Theis discussing Wolf Lair’s Realmworks

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Gaming Ballistic’s Firing Squad was joined by +Liz Theis from +Lone Wolf Development to discuss their soon-to-be-released campaign management tool, Realm Works. I was introduced to Liz and Lone Wolf through +Ed Healy and +Joey Turco of +Gamerati, who saw my notes about interviews for the RPGBA March Blog Carnival on VTTs and Computer Gaming aids. I knew of Hero Lab, but honestly didn’t…

Castle of Horrors: Running away is Cardio!
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Castle of Horrors: Running away is Cardio!

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We started in a basement, and exploration revealed some sort of stinky ooze. We tried to set it on fire with magic napalm. It sorta ran away, but we realized that we’d cleared a path for it to follow. We ran away, looking for trade goods in the form of napalm. We cleared out a…

Violent Resolution – Guns . . . Lots of Guns
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Violent Resolution – Guns . . . Lots of Guns

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In a previous article, Violent Resolution looked at the skills used for ranged weaponry. In this column, I look at the weapons themselves. Similar to differentiation found in hand-to-hand weapons, differentiation in ranged weapons, including the titular guns, provide a way of showing strengths and weaknesses, and providing different dramatic opportunities, within games. Most games (but…

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Pandemic 2: We save the human race.

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Second game of Pandemic with Alina, and this time we win. I drew the Medic, which is a crazy-good role for keeping infections at bay. She drew the Operations Specialist. Once again, we got hit with an epidemic on the first turn of the game. Pretty minimal impact, all in all. She also drew something…

Short-run printing – looking for options

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CreateSpace is inexpensive but has been extremely uneven in quality. Extremely. DriveThruRPG (via Lightning Source) has been very reliable and consistent in quality, but is more expensive than I’d prefer. I’m looking for other short-run printers that might do the job. The minimum offset quantity I can usually find is 500 copies, but rumors have…

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GURPS 101: HT and Fatigue Points

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We continue the discussion of the basic stats and derived attributes in GURPS with the final pair: HT and Fatigue Points. Honestly, I’m going to have a hard time with this one, in that I said a lot of what I would otherwise say about HT in my post The Price of Fitness.  Go read…