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New appreciation for old school revival gaming

So, when +Peter V. Dell’Orto told me that some guy named +Erik Tenkar was looking for extra members for his Swords and Wizardry “B-Team” campaign, I’ll admit I more or less had no idea who Erik was when Peter told me to sign up, only that I had had most of the games I played in drop offline. Trail…

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Pyramid #3/61: Way of the Warrior

This one will be quick (mostly because I’m having lunch and behind my work firewall), but today’s Pyramid Magazine is out, and it’s tremendous. What’s in it? A truly stupendous article by +Sean Punch and +Peter V. Dell’Orto with DF power-ups for the swords and smiting set. This wonderful piece of badassery is 11 pages of pure awesome. Things…

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Time of Flight in pen-and-paper RPGs

This is a response to a post +Gerardo Tasistro made a bit ago about when time of flight matters in RPGs. He’s positing that it’s not enough to know when in a turn sequence you act, but sometimes it’s key to know when – sometime later – the consequences of your action actually occur. I started to…