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…
This was never really in doubt, because “not my first rodeo,” but I’ve got the go-ahead to launch at any time. Lost Hall 2e Kickstarter is go! Thanks to good feedback from multiple parties, some of my original plans and offerings have changed. This includes Additional reward tiers, including $1, $5, and a $650 level…
Welcome to the second year of GURPSDay, and here’s the morning pull for you guys. We’re currently drawing content from 76 blogs. Only 24 more to go until we’re pulling from 100! But we’ll need your help. How? Two action items: post more, recruit more. It’s really that simple. More posters is more posts, and more interest…
Blergh. Habby GURPthDay, but blerg. Sick. Tired. Full day of work. But at least we’ll have GURPS. Welcome to GURPSDay 2018, and the fourth year – GURPSDay started in February 2013, only a year after I started Gaming Ballistic. We’re currently drawing content from 98 blogs. We are so very, very close to having 100…
I wrote The Last Gasp in order to put lulls and flurries into combat, among other things. I wrote Delayed Gratification because I didn’t really like Feints much, and introduced the Setup Attack as a notional replacement or supplement. But I was thinking about Feints and Waits (next week! Melee Academy is May 9!) partially as a response to…
The More Perilous Journeys campaign, producing five new old-school adventures for TFT, is now live! What is The Fantasy Trip? The Fantasy Trip is an “old school” RPG created by Steve Jackson. Its first element was released in 1977: the combat game Melee (available FREE from Steve Jackson Games!). That was followed by the magic game Wizard and a…