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Showing posts with label Musings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Musings. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2024

On the Nature of a Cruel and Uncaring Universe

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An ongoing topic of discussion amongst fantasy gamers - well, mostly D&D players - has been the concept of "evil races" or eve...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

The End of an Age

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In the summer of 2019 my daughter and two of her friends were attending a summer theater camp, and then coming over here on Thursday afterno...
Thursday, August 8, 2024

D&D 5.5, and the long shadow of optimization

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Someone on Mastodon linked to this article on the rules hacks that are already proliferating in D&D 5.5 that reflect back to the Mike M...
Tuesday, August 6, 2024

On the new edition of D&D being out

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So the latest Players Handbook for D&D dropped, and I'm starting to see reviews on YouTube and other places. I just wanted to drop...
Monday, June 15, 2015

Most Wanted Wrap Up

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That's finished! Thanks to the esteemed Mr. Hite for kicking me into gear for finishing that up. The intent of the Most Wanted Conspyr...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Rogues Gallery 2

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Continuation of the Rogues Gallery list from yesterday.... 6) Found Foes:  You have an exploratory nature or something else that leads yo...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Rogues Galleries

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Since I'm working a lot of scattered things at the moment I wanted to codify some ideas on Rogues Galleries. I am thinking of my Sticks ...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Final Thoughts on 5E

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Crossposted from my Facebook feed I like to think I gave it a fair shot. We ran 4 sessions and took the characters from 1st to 3rd, and I ...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Card Stack Improv

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After some feedback from the players I'm not going to try to adapt 5E to my card stack system next month. We'll be sticking with the...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Thanksgiving Randomness Continued

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In the same vein as yesterday, here is another hero and another rogues gallery to populate the odd corners of your game world. Skye Montan...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving Randomness

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This year, aside from the usual health and family stuff, I am thankful for Villains & Vigilantes. Sure I'd played games before that ...
Friday, November 14, 2014

Versatile Single Powers

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In general when I'm designing characters for supers games I like keeping them focused - a primary ability, a secondary ability, a career...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Big Hero 6 and Supers Character Design

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I caught a showing of Big Hero 6 (It's good; if you like Supers you'll like it) and walked away with a couple of ideas on designing...
Friday, November 7, 2014

Decentralized Power in Character Design part 3

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To recap, my conjecture is that decentralized power for PCs (i.e. power outside their immediate bodies) faded for a while due to desire for ...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Decentralized Power in Character Design part 2

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As I commented Monday it's sometimes a bit of a jump for people to accept decentralized power (power that is not inherent to the charac...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Decentralized Power in Character Design, part1

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A few years back it occurred to me that the best way to build the three main PCs in Star Wars _on equal points_ is as follows: Luke: high c...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Thoughts on the DC Television Universe

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Had an interesting conversation with Geri the Murderous Librarian today about Arrow, Flash and Gotham today and the nature of the growing DC...
Saturday, October 18, 2014

Powers and failing to get it

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I commented on this on my Facebook account but I wanted to touch on it here in more detail: Playstation Network is making a TV show of Brian...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Another Angle on the Forgotten Realms

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After complaining last week about the size and scope of the Realms, and their hodgepodge, jigsaw puzzle world design it dawned on me that Co...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

A quick praise to pocket books

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I have several large books of short stories and collected series lying on my bedside table to be read and find it hard to pick up any of the...