I’ma be honest: I don’t get rituals. I don’t grasp them. I don’t desire them. I’m not enthusiastic about them in any way. I have tried. I’ve tried to read lists of rituals and select some; but if I’m truthful, I don’t know that I’ve ever finished a description for any ritual save Hand of […]
I have been known to crack wise. I’ve produced a chuckle or two, elicited a snicker, even provoked a guffaw. I come from a family of jokesters, particularly my father, uncles, and cousins. We once relied on Big Lebowski quotes for the lion’s share of an entire Thanksgiving holiday’s conversation. I’ll poke fun at myself, […]
Because, seriously, HeroQuest. It’s important to understand that I wouldn’t be a gamer today if it wasn’t for HeroQuest. And as I owe every major social (and thereby both romantic and professional) accomplishment past the age of about 10 to Dungeons and Dragons, I would literally not be here today if it wasn’t for HeroQuest. […]
Despite putting several words together in punctuated sequence in my last post, I don’t think that I actually made the point I was striving towards. I chalk this up to writing the post on the fumes of my conscious cycle (my rhythms are mad erratic, yo). However, having finally reached Warhammer’s Orcs at the end […]
>Orcs are important. They’re so iconic to a fantasy setting that when they crop up in Sucker Punch, it’s not even necessary to ever say the name. You see the gross-skinned dudes and recognize them immediately. I’ve written something in the neighborhood of seven different campaign worlds in the last sixteen or so years, and […]
>Unlike when I describe something as “Kafka-esque,” I’ve actually read Faust. It was pretty great, and the same class also had us reading Il Corbaccio which lacked as much pinching of the pope, but provided some awesome names. Just about every Aeon I had in FFX had a name from Corbaccio. Including Corbaccio. However, I’d […]
>I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. It’s all online via message board these days, though, and that’s a medium with a tremendous turnover and failure rate. Awesome game ideas crop up, recruit players, and then…well, not every game comes back after a three month hiatus. This means that I roll lots of characters, […]
>Psionic Discipline, obviously. I love me some psionics, and have since 2e. I don’t really count pre-2e manifestations as a full system, though some might make the same argument about the Complete Psionics Handbook as well. As an aside, the first time I undertook to provide an in-depth counseling session as a young man, I […]
>I'm a bad roleplayer. I've been playing Dungeons and Dragons, without significant gaps, for around 17 years. I built my first race about 12 hours after I first touched a PhB. By the time I finished high school six or so years later, I'd written two massive, sprawling campaign worlds, something like 30 races, a […]
>I’m going to talk about Tinderbox’s Beastmen, the faction probably closest to what could be termed “villains” in the setting. First, though something I was reading the other day has me thinking I really should come up with some other names with them. I don’t, in general, worry that my stance on anti-Common necessitates re-naming […]
Ego Poisoning 