Friday, December 27, 2013

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Push, Pull, Drag

At the time of this blog post, the Eldritch RPG Kickstarter has 60 hours to go. A little help getting it across the finish line would be aweso...

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Eldritch RPG Character Sheet

Once upon a time, I created an alternate character sheet for the Eldritch RPG. Dan asked if I'd update it for the revised edition's Kickstarter. I was glad to. Here's a peek at the combat page: What's...

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

New Eldritch Kickstarter Stretch Goal

Oh, cool. Dan has revealed a new stretch goal - a Shaintar adventure for Eldritch. Sean Patrick Fannon of Evil Beagle Games has agreed to pen a bonus adventure for the Eldritch RPG in PDF format upon this Kickstarter reaching the goal of $4500. Yes, this is in addition to the free adventure I'm...

Monday, October 28, 2013

Monday, October 21, 2013

Torchbearer arrived!

My copy of Torchbearer arrived on Saturday. And wow! I love it. The Pete Mullen cover is fantastic. The overall production quality is higher than the already high marks set by BWHQ. The book itself feels great in the hands. Now it's time to light some torches and embark on adventure for loot! Pics...

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Eldritch RPG Kickstarter

I'm glad to see that Dan has launched the Eldritch RPG: Revised Edition Kickstarter campaign. It's a heck of a good game. The exclusion of monsters, traps, and treasure in the original book did ding it a bit. Even so, we've had a lot of fun with Eldritch. The Kickstarter will set things straight....

Saturday, October 5, 2013

On Swords & Wizardry Complete Hardcover

Last Sunday, I ordered the Swords & Wizardry hardcover direct from Frog God Games. It arrived today, the following Saturday. Talk about service. I've been playing S&W for a few years, starting with the WhiteBox and Core books from Lulu. When Complete was released back in 2010, for me, it jumped...

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Project Code Name: Roll A D6

A big part of why I like Swords & Wizardry so much is that it's a great baseline for hacking, for making it my own. On the other hand, I find approaches like the Siege Engine in Castles & Crusades pretty nifty. So, we set out to put together a check system using the venerable D6 in sync with...

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Castles & Crusades is Incomplete?

When I first ran into this thread over at the Troll Lord's forum about Castles & Crusades being incomplete, I thought the original poster was a bit off his rocker. But I began to think about the subject a bit. I went back and looked at the 4th printing of the players handbook (I own 3 copies of...

Monday, August 12, 2013

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Preordered Numenera and Some Thoughts

Even though I was following development, I wasn't planning on getting Numenera but, a thread over at TheRPGSite changed my mind.With the FLGS preorder, I received the PDF for free. I'm only about half way through character creation so I can't comment too much about the book at a whole but, wow. It's...

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Going With Class and a Half

For the upcoming campaign, I've been sifting through bits for options. I'm pretty sure that I'll be using Weapons Mastery from the Rules Cyclopedia. From Castles & Crusades, I think I'll port over Class and a Half. It's the best multi-classing option that I've ever seen. Pick a primary class and...

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Swords & Wizardry with Weapon Mastery?

I've got a game brewing and I think that I'm going to use Swords & Wizardry Complete as the base but sprinkle in some spice. The most potent being Mentzer Weapon Mastery. It looks like the first thing to do would be to re-scope Weapon Mastery from 36 character levels to 20. Other than that, it...

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Finished Reading The Rules Cyclopedia

Wow. While I didn't originally have the book back in my fist go-round with D&D, I did have the series of boxed sets, I'm reminded of why we had the approach to the game that we did. Compressing the expansiveness of basic into your head all at once is quite a task. Even though I found some of the...

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Surprised by the D&D Rules Cyclopedia

By the time that the D&D Rules Cyclopedia hit the streets in 1991, I was drifting away from the hobby and completely missed its release. Besides, late in my first gaming epoch, I was playing very little D&D and was mostly focusing on other "more advanced" games. Being curious, a few years ago,...

Monday, July 8, 2013

Heroes Companion

The other day I picked up the Advanced Fighting Fantasy Heroes Companion. The new types of magic, spells, talents, and so on are top notch but, it's the company rules, domain management, and mass battles that really grab my attention. With these bits, Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 can easily hang with...

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Burning RPGs

A few weeks ago, a fire broke out in my house. Even when you don't lose everything it's incredibly disruptive. I used to think that those who burnt their own homes for money were miscreants. Now, I think that there's something very, very wrong with them - miscreants still. It hits a gamer and book...

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Crimson Exodus Kickstarter

Have you all seen the Crimson Exodus Kickstarter? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1070382475/crimson-exodus-2nd-ed-fantasy-roleplaying-game A while back I mentioned Fantasy Dice, the 'generic' fantasy game that was extrapolated and updated from the standalone Crimson Exodus rpg. Well, the Radical...

Monday, February 18, 2013

BareBones Fantasy Ain't Slim Pickins

I never meant to be writing this post. I never intended to buy BareBones Fantasy. My intention was to slow down my game buying habit in order to focus on the ones that I already have. I almost held out. I really did. That is until I saw Zachary the First's review over at The RPG Site....

Monday, January 14, 2013