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Got No Class, So To Speak
I will probably never make another 4e character class ( Read more... ) -
The Sound and the Fury
So, the premise of yesterday's 4E game was pretty straightforward. People were to make level 18 characters, and were encouraged to optimize. I was going to throw them through the fighting mill, and try to grind them to powder. Guidelines were ( Read more... ) -
D&D on Saturday
So, Fred ran a truly kicking conclusion to season 1 of his game yesterday, with our headquarters getting blown up, big plot reveals and all the other things that you might want to expect. One of the most notable things about the game is that we managed to include one of the players remotely. He's in NYC, but we set up video chat with the camera ( Read more... ) -
My Happy Place
Out TV viewing has been shot since Jamie was born. We just don't have as much time for it, so there's been a backlog of a number of things sitting on the Tivo. Most problematically, there are a few shows that we watch together, and it would be the worst sort of infidelity to slip in a little viewing action ( Read more... ) -
Color & Druids
Ok, so 4e has a disconnect between the description of what a power does and it's mechanical effect, and universally the description (also called color) carries pretty much no weight. As an example, imagine an attack which is described as leaping high into the air and coming down on your enemy to do some damage. If you were faced with an obstacle ( Read more... ) -
A Guy and His Dad
So, Zack Houghton runs a really good gaming blog over at rpgblog2, and I hope you're reading it. If you're not, he's hit a rough patch lately, as accounted in his latest postI'm not going to ask people to pitch in sight unseen, but if you have a second, just give it a read, and do what you would. Zack's good folks, and I tossed a bit that way, and ( Read more... ) -
Roots of Humility
I played football in my freshman year in High School. I was pretty big and crazily strong for my age, and I did decently, but for most of the season, I only did ok. I played line, and I worked really hard in practice, throwing myself at dummies, doing really terrible exercises, the whole enchilada. On the field, I could usually outmatch whoever ( Read more... ) -
Graphical Discussion
Graphics are a fantastic way to make arguments. Not only do they express information in an interesting, digestible way, they are also hard to argue with because you end up engaging the graphic rather than the underlying argument. This becomes doubly problematic when the graphic is particularly clever, and the point of disagreement is strongly open ( Read more... ) -
Livescribe Convergence
The Livescribe Pulse is pretty much one of the most brilliant devices of recent history. The ability to have your writing captured to a computer without the pain of weird clipboard attachments is a really exciting technology for people who like writing longhand (like, say, me).
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52 Pickup
So, this is something I was going to use for the Gloomwrought game I may someday have time for, but it's probably usable for a lot of games. Just take a deck of cards and deal out three of them to each player and get their answers. You can tie this to rewards, like XP or starting equipment, but that's really a function of how your group operates ( Read more... )