I wrote The Last Gasp after musing about how tired I was after 30-60 seconds of working a large banana bag in class, as well as how quickly one can get fatigued while sparring and fighting. What if, I mused, every time you rolled the dice it used up a resource? Would that lead to…
I am a firm believer in playtest, fight-test, and most especially blind-test, which is what I call playtesting when one hands over the product in question to a willing helper and lets them run it as they would, without the filter of working through the author. It helps me get a perspective that’s only informed by…
I am halfway through writing up my own version of this post, but was going to try doing something unusual, a 500+ point scout who favors a staff-sling or heavy sling, as that featured prominently in my FnordCon5 Meatgrinder scenario, and I wanted to see what could be done there. It ran into several rules…