-
Google is discontinuing access to USENET on 22 Feb 2024.
Google is discontinuing access to USENET on 22 Feb 2024. So I will lose access to alt.pub.dragons-inn, the newsgroup that first captured my interest in the Internet. I was an original on APDI, though not one of the movers and shakers. I think I am the last one left ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge Postmortem
Postmortem: as defined by the Society for Creative Anachronism, a postmortem is held after an SCA event to see what happened, what went right, and what went wrong. The military calls it an after-action report ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge: Jan 31: 2E AD&D, Al-Qadim, Birthright, Masque of the Red Death
PHYSICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge: Jan 30: 2E AD&D, Al-Qadim
Late again. This one is also more of a stub. The dice were kind for this guy, so I decided to go with a dual-class human. I picture in my head a street urchin (Aladdin?) who gains some skills and then befriends a gen to pursue arcane power ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge: Jan 29: 2E AD&D, Tales of the Lance, Savage Coast
I wanted to try 3d6 in order and see what I got. What I got was so low, I didn't qualify for the racial minimums in the 2E PH. When the dice are that unkind, you decide to double-down by choosing the worst class possible ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge: Jan 28: 2E AD&D, Al-Qadim, Complete Humanoid, Birthright
This was another proto-character I was putzing with when I came up with Diyab (7 Jan's entry) and Essafah (8 Jan's entry). I was toying with the idea of a half-orc lore and skill master who could gain NWPs as needed as well as serve as an urban plot magnet. So I went with guilder (from Birthright's Havens of the Great Bay) instead of bard (from ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge: Jan 27: MSHRPG Advanced, Dragon Magazine
Dragon Magazine #197 had an excellent article titled "Heroes of the Streets Arise" addressing the sudden influx of normal human costumed heroes in the early 90s. It was a reversion in may ways to the origins of the "mystery men" of the 40s and the Golden Age of comics. The variant rules are meant for "street-level" heroes and super-spies like ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge: Jan 26: 2E AD&D, PH, Complete Humanoids & Psionics, Monster Mythology
The Dark Crescent is meant to be the leader of an orc cult to oppose your PCs. Again, I wanted a jack of all trades. So I found a specialty priest that granted thief skills and a kit that allowed wizard spells. I also got really, REALLY lucky with the psionic wild talent rolls. I don’t think I’ll see rolls like that again ( Read more... ) -
Character Creation Challenge: Jan 25: 2E AD&D, Player's Handbook, Complete Ninja, Monster Mythology
I love the dichotomy and versatility of a cleric/thief. But since only gnomes in the PH can have this multi-class combo, I've had to go further afield to scratch this itch. That lead to my first 1E character back in the 2010s: a half-orc assassin/cleric. He go retooled to a 2E cleric/thief shortly thereafter. He was a hoot to play. Since then ( Read more... )