Sawriddyn Witch Doctor
Here’s the penultimate Spooktober article. Read at World Anvil Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
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The Ferrymen
Editor’s Note: This is another pre-World Anvil C10KD post. Here’s a link to the current WA version. Opinions on soulfaring vary considerably: Whether it’s a grave societal threat, idle distraction, path to enlightenment, or indication of moral failing depends on who you ask. For this reason, it’s a topic rarely discussed in polite company. Based…
Why Even Use Rules?
Whenever someone suggests that sometimes it’s ok to ignore the rules, someone else inevitably asks why you should even bother to use rules if you’re not going to slavishly follow them at all times, apparently to make sure that the discussion is safe from crows. A super-secret project that I’m currently working on required me…
Wednesday WWPHITM? Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser
To continue with this week’s musings on Sword & Sorcery fantasy, this Wednesday WWPHITM? takes a look at Fritz Lieber’s Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser series. The basic plot will be “Ill Met in Lankhmar,’ probably with brief retellings (possibly as flashbacks) of “The Cold Women” and “The Unholy Grail” included. Guy Ritchie directs. Facebook…
Health & Nerve
I realize I needed to figure these out before I started writing the combat rules. This page might end up getting moved somewhere else later on, but right now there’s not really a good spot for it so I just stuck it in the “general rules” section. Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
Flash! Bang! Magic! Part 1
Before I get into this week’s blog, I forgot to mention last week that I recently the newest installment of my series of role-playing articles on HubPages, “Seven Rules Every RPG Player Should Know.” Also, just yesterday Hex released our first novel, Carter Newton’s Suicide’s Run: A Tale of the Hobomancers. Carter does a great…
Wiki Articles Are Wizards Play-Thru Review
I backed Ben Meadows’ Wiki Articles Are Wizards [Citation Needed] during this year’s zine quest because I like wizards and I like game-like systems for generating RPG stuff (my article about using Tarot cards and IMDB to generate campaign history is probably around here somewhere). The PDF was delivered earlier this week, so I gave it…
From the Archives: Assassination Games
Here’s a game idea from the DC archives: I’ve stumbled upon a rather odd true story, full of secret agents, (cyber)sex, and murder. According to the judge in the case, “Skilled writers of fiction would struggle to conjure up a plot such as this.” Since I don’t have the time or ambition to write a…
Reverb Gamers 2012, #17
REVERB GAMERS 2012, #17: What was the best reward you’ve ever gotten in a game? What made it so great? How much do you need tangible rewards (loot, leveling, etc.) to enjoy a game? (Courtesy of Atlas Games. Visit them at www.atlas-games.com) I don’t really have an answer for the first and second questions, which…