Character Collections: Funded on Day One!

Time to put on that pretty floral bonnet and party. Hopefully I won’t end up married to a psychotic redhead. My current mostly-stable redheaded wife would not be amused.

Time to put on that pretty floral bonnet and party. Hopefully I won’t end up married to a psychotic redhead. My current mostly-stable redheaded wife would not be amused.
As I have been working on the Heretical RPG project, I’ve been struggling with backgrounds. It’s not that there aren’t a ton of them out there already – there are. But they’re also not clearly something I can just, well, steal. It’s one thing to go out and get permission both implicit (via the OGL)…
Another Swords and Wizardry session with +Erik Tenkar . We got off to a slow start, and wound up shooting the breeze for an hour. We check for potions and other interesting stuff, but there’s nothing to be had. We only have three this time: +Peter V. Dell’Orto (Mirado Bluebeaten), +Tim Shorts (Minister the Pink Buster), so we decide that what…
A bit ago, I was gifted with a Ziploc bag full of dice. I have no idea from what game they come. Help? And the commenters have spoken: These be Dragon Dice.
A question on reddit had me thinking. It was asking about swinging a sword in a confined environment, one yard wide. Another commenter noted – and I agree – that no, you can’t swing sideways, but you certainly can use the vertical, if the ceiling is tall enough. Then I thought: Overhead Strike Seen very…
When I took a look at the most and least seemingly popular/favorable Pyramid issues since the magazine’s third incarnation, a few issues on the bottom were very poor sellers, but really gave no indication of why. I wanted to revisit each of these and do an article-by-article review, in the same manner that I reviewed…
Over on Google+, +Benjamin Baugh was thinking about damage reduction in place of increased hit difficulty for D&D armor. This obviously strikes a chord with this GURPS (and D&D) player, and I replied: Even if you run screaming from the game, the implications of negated attacks and armor as damage reduction/resistance are fully fleshed out in GURPS….