Over at EnerlaNet a response to the Safety Rails vs Sandbox series of blogs was posted here. The article is overall something I wasn’t particularly inclined to say anything further to than what I’ve already said here. Yet one sentence in the EnerlaNet article leapt out at me as stunning, “when some player prefers a …
Monthly Archive: July 2010
The Mad Troll
Encounter Level 10 (2200xp) This encounter is from my home game, and is one the party has when they go out to cause trouble for an approaching army. In essence through their actions and the actions of some NPCs that they are working with the initial plans of an Orc Chieftain have been foiled, and …
Social Elements in Fantasy
“One thing that often surprises me is how much, and yet how little, we change when we create fantasy worlds. For instance, we often radically change the look and feel of the world. We add new wondrous species, awe-inspiring locales and epic legends. However, rarely do we change the fundamental underpinnings of our societal structure …