This is just a preview of the project summary, but things are shaping up well.
I hope to launch in just shy of two weeks, and the project should run through mid-June.
Used +Roll20 to run my test playtest, and it was my first time to do this as GM. It took me about 3-4 hours to generate a random dungeon using the donjon generator, edit the monsters so that they were thematically more unified (all from the very useful list of Hill Monsters from the DMG or Monster…
I think my first and only trip to GenCon was in 1994 or something. It was still in Milwaukee. West End Games was there, and I got to see Timothy Zahn and the WEG designers talk about Star Wars. Was cool. Now, many (too many) years later, I’m GenCon bound again. I am kinda losin’…
I saw a question on the RPG Stack Exchange which got my wheels turning briefly. “Hey,” said a user. “I want to use a particular ability in 3.5, but it requires two slashing weapons, and my guy uses maces. I want a slashing mace!” The question also had a lot of rules-specific questions about some…
This is a repeat of an SJG Forums post made by Assistant Line Editor Jason “PK” Levine. *** *** *** *** A wise company looks to the future while carefully minding the past, and it’s in the latter spirit that we’ve offered back catalogs of our classic magazines. Roleplayer, which started as a newsletter and…
Over at Mailanka’s Musing, he throws down a fun post, akin to my Technical Natasha effort, describing the fight between Luke and Vader in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a good breakdown, and worth the read. One thing that came up in the comments was the frequency of blade-to-blade pushing. This is, I believe, referred…
The term “Armor as Dice” was coined somewhere on the GURPS forums to describe a method of treating armor using (oddly enough) dice instead of points of DR. It was a bit of parallel evolution – while I wasn’t the only one to come up with the phrase, I was using it in games as…