ObsidianCrane

Author's details

Name: John Pope
Date registered: July 10, 2010

Biography

School teacher by day, gamer by night. I've been playing and running DnD and other RPGS since the early 80's, with occasional forrays into war games and card games. My focus games at the moment are DnD 4E, L5R (CCG), and Song of Fire and Ice RPG (heavily homebrewed). Published Work: KQ Web Articles (Gray Warrior, Mountain Priest), Spycraft: Agents Sourcebook (example PC Rose)

Latest posts

  1. Tenra Bansho Zero!! — March 10, 2013
  2. Bones of a Warlord — January 12, 2013
  3. History of it All — January 11, 2013
  4. Back to Bases — August 26, 2012
  5. The Dogs of War — August 19, 2012

Most commented posts

  1. Artful Art — 15 comments
  2. Thoughts on Skill Challenges — 12 comments
  3. How Do I Write a Skill Challenge? — 12 comments
  4. Where is the new classic? — 11 comments
  5. Roleplaying, it’s your issue. — 10 comments

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Tenra Bansho Zero!!

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tenra-full

Last year in the flurry of Kickstarters I involved myself in was the one for this game; Tenra Bansho Zero (TBZ) and its now available for general purchase in PDF format (the print books are on a boat from China currently) so I thought now would be a good time to share my thoughts and …

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Bones of a Warlord

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Ok so you are one of the 16000 or so folks that backed the Reaper Bones KS and perhaps you are wondering what you are going to do with all of those miniatures once they arrive (aside from stare at them and wonder what you got yourself into). Obviously you purchased them because they were …

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History of it All

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History, its one of those things that we pour hours into developing for our settings and then we put it into nice neat timelines where everything has an exact date and position in the past and this is very handy for us. The problem of course is that history isn’t really like that at all. …

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Back to Bases

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Miniatures

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25mm Round Celtic Ruins (Pro-painted.)

Wow the Reaper Bones Kickstarter raised an amazing $3,429,236 and some 17744 people backed the project most of them backing at the $100 level and receiving over 200 miniatures for their enjoyment (myself among them) in March next year. The thing is the Bones miniatures come with what is called a broccoli base, a lightly …

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The Dogs of War

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Classics Return, Game Elements

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When I first considered what to write for the Classics Return blog carnival my first idea was to write up themes based on the Planescape Factions, then right as I was about to start the content for this month’s Dragon was announced including an article that would present themes for the Planescape Factions. Not wanting …

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Giff Return

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Classics Return, Mechanics

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The Giff by Richard Green, illustrations by Symatt Of all the fantastic campaign settings published by TSR in the early 90s, Spelljammer is definitely in my top 3 (along with Planescape and Al-Qadim). The concept of the swashbuckling pirate-adventurer standing on the deck of her hammership as it sails through space towards a distant asteroid …

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Bones Size Comparison

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I saw some searches looking for a size comparisons for the Reaper Bones miniatures and so I thought I would supply a quick image for reference. Now I don’t have any human sized Bones miniatures yet, but the miniatures are standard Reaper sizes and are comparable to most miniatures lines. From left to right this …

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Kickstart A Collection

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Kickstarter, Miniatures

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Funded

Kickstarter has recently been the home to some astoundingly successful projects for gamers, especially those who are interested in the miniatures side of things and now we have two great projects underway for those of us who like to collect and paint miniatures, or perhaps those who are curious and want to give the hobby …

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Open Design Contributions

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DRGH Cover

From around October last year through to January I was working on content for Open Design as part of my participation in the Dark Roads and Golden Hells (DRGH) project and now some of that work is available for you to spend your hard-earned dollars on. Open Design projects were an interesting experience. There was …

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Ruminating on Next

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D&D Next

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DnDNext (5E) is something I find difficult to write about at the moment. When I read people talking about it I often get the feeling that they are treating this first stage of the public play test as a finished product and that they are wilfully ignoring anything that WotC says that indicates this is …

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