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See More »Many of Dendric’s powers didn’t work as well as intended or weren’t as appealing as intended due to the DM being sort of a moron. Allies in the Crowd didn’t work because I forgot that I needed to place all of the uninvolved NPCs. Silvershield Soldier shouldn’t have been Wisdom-based […]
Terrence is one of the key examples of how I adapted a character’s existing combat style to brawling. In this case, obviously, I added elemental stuff (we’ll call them “particle effects”) to the normal things you’d do in a bar brawl – punching and throwing beer. Also, since Terrence was […]
Azamon Fyori was (in this campaign) a tiefling resourceful warlord. He was much less of a sociopath than some of that player’s previous characters! He normally fought with sword and shield, and (like all tieflings before the rework of their racial power) was all about the fire damage.As you can […]
Early on in my 4e campaign, I wanted to experiment with odd powers and temporary change-ups in character stats. I was a little more adventurous in the general area of kitbashing in the first year of the campaign’s run, when only one or two players were using DDI heavily. As […]
In working on Dust to Dust, one of the significant areas of design theory discussion has been which rules to reveal and which to keep secret from the publicly-posted rules. That secret rules exist should be no surprise to most gamers; in one form or another, it’s a practice as old […]
I thought I’d go back to terrain powers today, since I always meant to go back and add more ways to interact with the fantastic terrains of the DMG and DMG 2. Several of them go away when used anyway – if you look at that as a “per encounter” […]
So, for non-LARPers in the crowd, I want to explain culture packets in a few words, so that the rest of this post will make a damn bit of sense. A culture packet is a document describing one of a game’s cultures, organizations, or races, with details on a variety […]
I’ve been playing a lot of Avadon: The Black Fortress lately. I’ll be saving my full review for another time, as I haven’t yet finished the game, but it’s gotten me thinking about the kinds of plotlines and stories that drive scenes within games, and games as a whole. Before […]
Yesterday, I played my first-ever game of Mansions of Madness with Kainenchen, Stands-in-Fire, and Mrs. Stands-in-Fire. None of us had played before or read the rules exhaustively, though Stands-in-Fire had gone over them a bit – so he played the Keeper. This review, then, is based entirely on player-side experience; I […]
For reasons having everything to do with Dust to Dust, I started thinking about how a character in Mage would conceal a weapon from various levels of searching. While I don’t have specific plans along these lines in my own Mage game, characters might very well want to sneak a […]
