Next on my laundry list of series I started in 2010 and need to complete, I’m going to wrap up talking about the non-Essentials DnD defenders and their marks. I may come back and hit up Essentials defenders at a later date, though that’s probably worth no more than a supplemental mini-post.* I already covered […]
And now, at last, we come to the concluding post in the Languages in DnD series. In previous posts I covered: my issues with languages in DnD, particularly common; the cultural considerations driving the Tinderbox campaign, and how these affect the available languages; and the available languages for my campaign, alongside their mechanical benefits. Well, […]
>Well, obviously I was never offline, so much as not providing posts here. Over the next week or so, though, I’m aiming to finish out my Fighter Mark analysis and Language series, and start looking at some new subjects to tackle. With my Tinderbox game back up, I can finally start posting statblocks for some […]
>Before I dive into the supplemental rules I’m using for languages, I’ll briefly mention the original tweak that led to these rules. It’s something I refer to as On The Job Training, and it allows an extra layer of customization for characters. Somewhere between first and third (or 11th and 13th, or 21st and 23rd) […]
(My turtle is sleeping on a pair of my pajama pants right now, but with her head tucked into her shell.) Now, the mechanical benefits section could be taken as odd or unnecessary, especially if I’ve already convinced you of the need for language revolution with all of my appeals to setting richness and roleplaying. […]
Note: This post was originally a response to a PM on Myth-Weavers, but as it grew in length I figured I’d move it here. You know, to up my post count and drive sweet sweet traffic. Plus, the questioner reads the blog, so it’s allll net gain. So I was talking to a longtime associate […]
>A brief intermission from my thoughts about languages. Consider the following hypothetical: The 5-person party is in the Engineering District, fleeing a detachment of 12 Goblin Points (Lightly-armored Despot skirmishers) and two Goblin Scuta (Points with swords instead of spears, specialize in creating openings for other Scuta to slip in and swing). They slip into […]
So. Apparently blogger interprets unordered list bullet points as sunflowers. I’m not sure if I change that through asking the html to display a different type of bullet, or by fiddling with my stylesheet…but now that I’ve titled this entry as I have, I can never change them without it no longer making sense. This […]
There’s a great scene in Lost in Translation (albeit an apparently difficult one to find on Youtube) where Bill Murray’s character finishes delivering a line in a commercial, only to be subjected to a rapid-fire, very intense stream of commentary (in Japanese) from the director. Which is translated as "He wants you to turn, look […]
Here’s the vignette I posted at the head of my Game Announcement for the new Lockout game, which I called Tinderbox- Aftermath of the Tran. “The peals of the bells marked the first moment most of us knew that there was something wrong. It’s not as though we ever saw any of the Tran, unless […]
Ego Poisoning 