So I included some throwaway (and mostly completely made-up-on-the-spot) references to the City of 10,000 Daggers (mostly its history) in the Dumb Tables at the end of Tales from the Lusty Minotaur, some of which I do plan to write up details about at some point. Conveniently enough, World Anvil is doing writing prompts every…
I’m getting very close to finishing the City of 10,000 Daggers map. Since the last post, I’ve added some green and trees, changed the contour lines into terrain effects with some creative beveling, cleaned up the brush-painted buildings, and added effects to the named buildings. I’m tempted to add effects to the noble villas in…
Here’s the new map, now with buildings, docks, a moat around Castle Vargo, and a few other additions and modifications. The next step will be to clean up the brushed-in buildings a bit and probably rework or modify a few sections here and there. Then I’ll start putting in some green space and other visual…
I know I said I’d get back to the Guardians of Shymeria campaign design walk-through this week, but I’m running a Qerth game using Cinemechanix at GenCon. I’d forgotten how long (compared to QAGS and Cinemechanix) it takes to create a Qerth character even when you’re not also converting them to another game system. So…
I’m going to do all of this year’s #RPGADAY questions real-quick like. 1) Real dice, dice app, diceless, how do you prefer to “roll”? Don’t care. If I’m sitting around a table, I’ll usually go with real dice. If rolling dice is a pain in the ass, I’m fine with an app. Facebook Twitter Reddit…
Last week I posted a map and some basic information about the setting for the terrible fantasy novel I’m writing for National Novel Writing Month, The Quest For the Lord of the Dragonsword Throne. Since one of the characters is a wizardess, I’ve had to come up with some basic information about how magic works…
As I told you last week, I decided to write an awful fantasy novel for National Novel Writing Month. So far I’ve written right around the 1667 words per day needed to finish in 30 days and I feel good about finishing on time. My original plan was to build the world as I went, but…
This week’s post isn’t specifically about gaming, but since terrible fantasy and gaming kind of go hand in hand, I figure it’s not completely off-topic. As some of you may know, I wrote an M-Force novel for National Novel Writing Month a few years ago. The first draft isn’t anywhere near publishable, but it helped…
All Games Considered spent most of a recent show reviewing a whole bunch of Hex products. If you’re on the fence or want to know more about a particular QAGS book, there’s a good chance they mention it in the podcast. What follows was written for a sort of game essay contest for a blog…
Last two: 30. Favorite RPG playing celebrity. Colbert. 31. Favorite non-RPG thing to come out of RPGing. I’m torn between two answers, so I’ll give them both. The first is the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. It started shortly after I discovered D&D, and while I was still young enough to watch cartoons without it being…
