In the previous segment, Never Tell Me the Odds 1 and Never Tell Me the Odds 2, the basic combat mechanics for five RPG systems were examined with the idea that if you don’t know the rough probabilities of doing what you want, you can’t really evaluate what you can do. Using the power of…
With the world currently pressing the “pause” button, many conventions have been cancelled, Steve Jackson Games’ FnordCon being one of them. Originally scheduled April 3-5, it has been re-imagined as a Virtual Convention, to be held on Discord. The schedule is firming up, and I’m sure SJG will have more to say about it in the coming…
As of this morning, 60 of 196 eligible voters have filled out the additional content voting form. Thank you! Currently, here’s the tally: Several Alternate Combat Rules (2000 words) in the lead with 184 points Skald Class (2000 words) with 140 points All Cleric Domains (3,000 words) with 109 points Berserker Path of Primal Runes…
One interesting thing struck me from the previous post, especially when one considers the often-repeated admonition that just because you have located your miniature figure on a hex-map in a given spot, doesn’t mean that you’re sitting in the middle of that hex at all times. In fact, you’re probably anywhere in it. Evil Math?…
Monster Monday again. This time with a repurposed Invisible Stalker, an elemental of vengeance. While some elementals are brought for benign reasons to the Realms of the Field, the Invisible Stalker is always brought for one purpose: to hunt and kill some quarry. The invisible stalker is a limited form of air elemental, but has…
Again we play the Heretical DnD, and again it works. This was the beginning of a real campaign, though, not just a playtest. So we did get to take the rules for a spin, but there was a lot of free-wheeling “make stuff up” as well. Dramatis Personae Sunshine ( +Peter V. Dell’Orto ) – 1st level…