A few weeks ago I spent a pretty long time talking to the guys at The Delve Podcast. The conversation included Dungeon Grappling, Dragon Heresy, and independent publishing.
Catch the first episode over at The Delve Podcast.
Looks like neither +Peter V. Dell’Orto nor I were graced with a nomination for ‘best blog on the planet” at the ENnies this year. In retaliation for this grotesque miscarriage of justice, I will go start a flamewar on the internet. That’ll learn ’em, taking it to ’em old school, etc. Grrrr. See? Mad. So mad, I…
A Warlock is a spellcasting class that derives its power from a pact with an otherworldly creature. Most of these builds scream “lawful evil at best” to me, but a few are possible without going full-on Belkar. I mean, seriously: the patron choices are a Fiend, freakin’ Cthulhu, and an Archfae. Of the three, at…
I hope that Melee Academy attracted lots of posts today, and so I’ll list them first. Melee Academy: Dealing With Superior Foes (Dungeon Fantastic) Melee Academy: Outgunned, Outmanned, and Outmaneuvered – Now What? (Ravens ‘N Pennies) Next Academy: PCs against really bad odds. (Virtual Table Topping) Melee Academy: Hero System Style (RPG Snob) TL;DR Today’s Melee…
This coming Monday, I’ll play in my first game with the new D&D rules, and I’m pretty excited about it. Now that I’ve gone through a character generation cycle, I find myself very impressed with the integrated Roll20 support for D&D. Lots of macros, auto-calculations, etc. Good stuff. I’ll get to the numbers in a…
I got some fast and valuable comments yesterday on the post on initiative and the OODA loop that I want to tackle in the harsh light of day, so to speak As always, the commenter’s thoughts are indented, purple, and italicized. Also note that alternate initiative concepts have been done before. +Christopher R. Rice did one on…