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Tenkar’s Hirelings

+Erik Tenkar asked about hirelings. +Peter V. Dell’Orto wrote about them as well. A comment over on Erik’s blog feed made me think back to a campaign I ran (the Blasingdell campaign, the origin of Sterick the Red). It was a Fantasy game, before Dungeon Fantasy was a GURPS line. It was a map centered on the town…

Tally and Successes in FATE

I’m not a frequent FATE gamer, though it’s one of the games I’d really like to try a few times to see what it’s like. Nonetheless, +Rob Donoghue banged out an interesting post on using Tally Scores with FATE for getting random damage. It hinges on reading fate dice in a slightly different way, but since you…

User commentary on Technical Grappling

Writes like feedback. Even negative feedback, constructively given, is useful. While I’m still waiting for +Erik Tenkar to review Technical Grappling (hey! where’d that bus come from?), I got a pleasant surprise when +Mitch French over at Don’t Forget Your Boots spent about 1,750 words talking about his impressions of my book. Highlights: He likes enough of the concepts that…