On the Daily Illuminator today! New Fantasy Trip Kickstarter From Gaming Ballistic!
Development Schedule
- Kickstarter Launch: June 7
- Kickstarter End: June 20, 10 p.m. Central Time
- Backerkit Start: by June 30
- Backerkit End: no later than July 10
I’m busily writing The Citadel at Nordvorn, Gaming Ballistic’s next return to the world of Nordlond (known as Torengar in Dragon Heresy). This one’s a mini-setting, focusing on the events and interactions between important players (including the characters!) in the lands surrounding this vital town. I am having ridiculous fun putting these towns together. I just finished…
My post on what guns do in GURPS and storytelling got me thinking about false precision in games that rate damage by HP ablation. I’ll pick on GURPS, but DnD/Pathfinder is, in its way, not much different. Ironically, I don’t think people really notice as much in Pathfinder, since the entire point of an attack…
Last content post I alluded to a situation where as many as six characters (4 players and 2 NPCs) were advancing cautiously in anticipation of encountering bad guys. This got tedious doing it player by player, turn by turn. On the other hand, you never really did know when the bad guys might pop out,…
Got in another playtest on the Heretical DnD project. What did I learn? I need to look a little bit at the grappling rules. There’s a tweak to be made that’s tiny and sensible. It won’t change much, but it’s a good add. There’s a neat use for a reaction on the Protection fighting style…
I think I’ll be looking for a fantasy cartographer or cartographers to help me make the world, continent, nation, and perhaps a few cities. I’m in the sketching-out phase right now, so there’s tremendous room for influencing the style and even the contents of the world. I think that a decent sketch-map, with a more…
Thursday is GURPSDay and September is upon us. Welcome to the second year of GURPSDay, and here’s the pull for this week. We’re currently drawing content from 89 blogs. Only 11 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…