It’s my practice to be pretty transparent about the cost to make my games. So, with no further ado, here’s the end-of-project view on “where will the money go?” for Lost Hall of Tyr which funded at about 200% on Kickstarter. Writing and Editing The basic cost to write the book and make it readable….
In my writeup of Cadmus, +Mark Langsdorf and I had a brief interchange about combat vs. non-combat healing. Cadmus is very, very powerful as a healing machine assuming that he has time to recover. The combination of Lay on Hands (Empathic Faith Healing) and Flesh Wounds (rapid wound recovery means he can bring a party of five…
OK, so yesterday we talked about loot. About $100,000 in loot, conveniently packed into a box no more than six inches wide, and maybe three inches deep and two high. More or less. What about real treasure. The kind you imagine you find in a dark hole that took you months of delving? Well, let’s consider…
We picked up with the same server errors we ended with, and 45 minutes after game start, we finally fixed them and got to it. Are you smarter than a SM+1 Troll? We faced two nine-foot-tall Trolls (not the end-of-pencil kind), and Brother Michel engaged them in conversation. Michel: “Hello there. Listen, can we go…
It’s like a moth to flame with me. First there was GURPS Martial Arts: Technical Grappling. That one was my first full-length book for anyone: 35,000 words of fairly detailed subsystem that was my first attempt at taking grappling rules and put them on the same scale and mechanical basis as striking with fists or weapons….
I finally finish up my review of this issue, Alternate Dungeons, with +Steven Marsh‘s Random Thought Table. Dungeon Fantasy is full of entertaining tropes, some used for amusement, some for simplification, and some for the one true purpose of absolute and total mayhem. Alternate Dungeons takes this and attempts to come at you sideways. The previous reviews…