Dragon Heresy: 13 hours and counting
We are in the last half day of the final push of the dragon heresy kick starter. We are 3,000 from the big offset print run goal, where all books get upgraded to the best quality.
We pick up after a two-week hiatus, and we’re joined by Leshar, a lizard-man former gladiator and fighter on behalf of Mitra.This is +Tim Shorts‘ new character, and he seems a fighter of some ability. We learn from him that the revolt in City State was quite real, but that the Regent has pretty much got…
Thursday is GURPS-Day, and today Gaming Ballistic welcomes a guest poster, +Jake Bernstein. It’s not often that you get direct feedback from someone using something you’ve written. Mailanka gave it over on the SJG Forums when he decided to use The Last Gasp in a super-detailed samurai campaign, and +Peter V. Dell’Orto has mentioned a few times that…
We had a limited group – just +Anne Hunter and +Wright Johnson. The rest were no-shows, but Anne suggested game on anyway, to see if two 7th level barbarians could tackle the remainder of the adventure. It was not designed to be too difficult, because I started it before we had the playtest results in that showed that…
The Firing Squad is not out of business – I’ve just been busy. Plus, I raised my standards. I really liked the visual impact of the images I added to Steve Jackson‘s and Hans-Christian Vortisch‘s interviews. So I decided to keep doing them. But it adds overhead. I can estimate as I work through +Brian Engard‘s…
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…
Kromm laid down the format, so I tried to do the same thing for Judo. This is bascially a find/replace of Judo for Karate, since they mostly have the same rules. Still – check my work? Remember to use the higher of DX or skill. Going by the Basic Set alone, doing all the math…