This one’s a day late, because last night I got back to martial arts training for the first time in well over a year. Not a huge deal for anyone but me, but a big deal for me. Anyway, for this guy, I decided to go the Variant Human route. I like this for archery-based…
We didn’t have enough people to run Majestic Wilderlands today, so we yakked a bit about magic items and game design. One thing that came up was a rules variant, based on the “you got your GURPS in my D&D” concept. But not even really that. The basic philosophy was that of the OSR and…
Quickly – why focus on combat for my character study? Also quickly: because every D&D game I’ve played in has featured or focused on combat. It’s a staple of the genre, and has been since I started playing in the early 1980s. It’s not the end-all/be-all of RPGing, of course. Traps and other skill-based or…