Magic Words, Max Barry Style
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American Artifacts
Sorry about missing a couple of weeks–other commitments, plague, pestilence, that kind of things. I’ll try not to let it happen again (much). I’m going to ease back into things with a couple of easy tables of random magical items that you can base your next story around. Conveniently enough, Hex produces two American Artifacts…
D&D 5E Review Part 5: Character Classes (Part 1)
As an author, co-author, or contributor to twenty-something RPG books and publisher of something like 50, I’m very familiar with introductory filler. Sometimes you can just jump right into the actual content, but other times you have to put some words in between the chapter title and the first header even if there’s nothing to…
Tuesday Table: Unusual Medical Conditions
As anyone who remembers the old “Medical Bag” feature in Fortean Times knows, people suffer from a lot of strange and bizarre medical conditions. These can be used to crank up the quirkiness of an adventure GMC, or (for particularly brave players) even a PC. Except for conditions with obvious effects, I’ve provided very…
10 Notes on The Necropolis
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Dynamic Character Sheets
Last week, I talked about the fact that character sheets are inherently incomplete and that it might be a good idea to rethink them. This week I’m going to float a new definition of a character sheet: “A character sheet should describe the relevant traits of a character at a particular point in time and…
Cinemechanix: Edges Re-Re-Visited
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Red Light Green Light
It’s been a couple days, but I finally got back to World Ember. I wrote this article on color codes mainly because I mentioned the color-coded fallout zones in a few of the region writeups. Since that would have been a short article, I decided to combine it with the “trail markers” idea I’ve been…
The Eternal Empire
July is World Anvil Summer Camp month, so I’m going to try to at least write enough prompts to get a participation badge, but since I’ve still got a lot of work left to do on The Blasphemous Temple of Yargolith, I probably wont’ have time to do much more. I’m starting big by finally…
Cinemechanix: Cinematic Combat!
As I mentioned at the end of last week’s blog, now that I’ve got the character sheet all figured out (again), the other big part of the Cinemechanix rules that aren’t really working for me are the combat rules. It’s not that they’re broken, it’s just they work like most RPG combat rules, which is…