Random Thoughts & Kickstarter News
I recently ventured into the DnDNext area of the WotC community and there found a thread advocating essentially for more art by Wayne A Reynolds. Now I’m not an artist, but the truth is I don’t particularly like Mr Reynolds’ art style, the “dungeon punk” thing just doesn’t float my boat, and then there are …
Ability Scores and Crunch Ability scores are a rather arbitrary way of establishing a range of bonus and penalty around a median set of values. Essentially they are a way of using 3d6 to establish a bell curve of ability from a certain negative value to a corresponding positive value. That derived value has been …
A few days ago, Monte Cook posted two short paragraphs and a poll to his page on the Wizards of the Coast community. Those few words stirred up a lot of conversation about race in Dungeons & Dragons in the comments and on Twitter over the weekend. For me (Draco), it brings up a long …
The rules of the game tell us how to play it, but the art of the game tells us what the world of the game looks like and more than that it inspires us. I started playing DnD when Larry Elmore, Clyde Caldwell and Jeff Easely were the dominant cover artists for products, and interior …
Like most people that have been avidly following 4E for the past 12 months I was not particularly surprised by the announcement of “a new iteration of D&D” by WotC on the 9th Jan. If anything I’m pleased by the possibilities of the public playtest and curious about the forthcoming edition of the game. For …
I’ve been a gamer for a long time, though, lets me honest, that doesn’t always equate to being a good roleplayer or GM. In fact, after 20 years of rolling dice, I still get terrified before going to any public play event, I’m scared that there will be amazing roleplayers there and my efforts will …
It’s been a while since the RPG community got together and published articles around a central theme. While discussing this in IRC, the topic of Loot was suggested, and what better time to write about and publish it than at Christmas. This blog festival, like the Winter is Coming, and A Night in Lonesome October …
Ok so it isn’t really in lights, however starting early November I had my first pitched article for DnD published on the Kobold Quarterly website; the Gray Warrior (Part 1 & Part 2) and last week part 1 of my second article went up (Mountain Priest). As many of you know pitching an article is …
For most users of the arcane arts, the unlocking of their true potential is gradual but constant, warlocks who prove their capability to their patron receive ever greater power, bards craft new ballads and insulting poems, the arcane threads of the world woven into the musical notation used to transcribe their work. But it is …
My critiscm for this weeks newcomers is that details on what they are and how the money will be used is thin on the ground. theres also some really random projects that i’m not covered because they aren’t really games as such, they are wooden dice or a mobile phone texting drinking party game… Name: …