When I last posted here over a year ago, I had a map that looks like this: At that point, I was planning on mapping out the rest of the world and adding new nations and cultures, cool landmarkes, and all that jazz. I looked at some articles of weird natural wonders and stuff to…
Almost two years ago, I sent Juan (who’s done art for Qerth, Fort High, Tales from the Lusty Minotaur, and other Hex products) a pitch for a troll illustration to use on the City of Ten Thousand Daggers page. We both got distracted by other stuff and kind of forgot about it until I was…
Last time around, I talked about a problem I was running into with a disconnect between intent and interpretation when it comes to rules. Basically, since we usually think of games as “systems” where all different rules concepts are interconnected, some players assume that anything not clearly marked “optional” is essential. The truth is that…
The Awesome People Hanging Out Together blog, as the name implies, features pictures of awesome people hanging out together. The blog basically just posts pics with absolutely no context, so you’ve got to guess at what brought them together. Why not make the reason something that you can use in a game? Unless otherwise noted,…
When I redesigned the character stats for Cinemechanix, one thing I wanted to do was make the whole “Story” side of the sheet seem less like an afterthought, in part by including some kind of crunch to the story stuff. Role-playing and story mechanics are something I’ve never quite settled into a firm opinion on,…
When I saw how quickly Skaught scripted a random generator using last week’s dungeon name tables, I decided to try out php code (which I’d only hacked at previously) by writing a random hobo name generator. The actual programming was easy, but I spent most of the week rewriting about three times until it was…
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I know bitching about political correctness is popular these days (mostly with comedians whose relevance is quickly fading, as far as I can tell), but the PC movement is totally correct in the assertion that what we call things matters. The go-to modern example is the estate tax, which is basically an inheritance tax on…
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