Let’s say you get into a book club. It’s a pretty interesting set up, where you get a tremendous number
Category: Table Top
Braaaaaiiiinsss
Dirty little gaming secret: I love undead. Stumbling hordes of zombies, lightning-quick skeletons — it’s all good. Shawn of the
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Analyzing the last few sessions
It is something of an irony that the players in my d20 game have been so interested and involved and
Cool.
You can get a pretty cool player-driven narrative out of 3e play. See here.
Narrative d20?
I’ve heard a lot of interesting stuff about the new Conan RPG from Mongoose publishing — that it gives players
‘Scuse me while I gush
In the history of Nobilis, the first 20th century was different. So were the 400 wondrous years after that, but
d20 skill-check hack
As noted here: Where d20 breaks down is when it shifts to non-combat rolls where the entire task (skill) is
d20 vs. the Dice Pool… or is it?
Overheard on The Forge :: d20 vs. 3d6, regarding “linear curves”. D20 combat is really a die pool system (rolling
Greedy
One of the things I said in the comments on this post regarded the way that d20 (or some other
The Plot Point
A few weeks ago, Dave commented that we’ve been at this Nobilis thing for ‘about a year’. I believe my
Cool, baby. Cool.
So for the last couple weeks I’ve been contributing the insanity of the Lexicon Of The Second Age, in which
Making Magic… magic.
A long email exchange on magic in rpgs — not a lot that resonated with me, but I did want
Order of events
Interesting thoughts on why to decide your Estate last when creating a character in Nobilis, stored here for my convenience:
“Still… not as scary…”
The creator of Nobilis, reinventing the ecosystem of the world’s oceans on Hitherby Dragons. The ocean should be made of
The beginning of the end of the beginning…
So I wrapped up the OA campaign last Friday night with the the most unwrap-uppy wrap-up I’ve ever done. Let’s
Stepping into other shoes
After some thoughts provoked by the posts here and here, I opted to eschew the turn timer for the Nobilis
Hello, Clarice
I’ve got some catching up to do… Monday Mashup #13: Silence of the Lambs I’m combining this with Nobilis. Lecter
Pondering the flow
So, we’ve had a few players cross-over from one Nobilis game group to the other now, and someone asked one
Of gods, guest stars, plots, and naming conventions
Sunday, we had our first ‘guest star’ in the ongoing Nobilis game. Hmm, before I get into that, though, let’s
Weeknight relaxation.
Ran the ‘Chrysalis A’ group last night (the first time with the full group), and got things rolling with the
Weekend review 3
Sunday: Finished up the second serial in Dave’s In Deo Confidemus :: Spycraft campaign in a blaze of gunfire (mostly
Weekend review 2
Saturday: First half of the second session of the second story-arc in Nobilis (which of course would be designated Session
Making the lower levels not matter
While talking about something else, Bryant mentioned something called the “No Myth meme”, which sounds vaguely interesting, especially when combined
Reminder: mention to Dave
OGL, D20 compatible CROSSGEN Campaign setting? Hmm.
Dylan MacEvitt, pt. 2
Some more character background for Dylan MacEvitt, member in good standing of The Agency.
Update
Note to self: preparing a list of likely (and point-balanced) qualities for a well-known Chancel and Imperator does not appreciably
This post is a year late
Having finally had a chance to play through some Spycraft stuff, I can finally see what people have been saying
Update review
The clearest review of 3.5 that I’ve seen is here: This release is like Microsoft charging for software updates. If
Missed it
In my Palm, July 6th, 2003: 1st TiHE Game Session (not counting bidding war – 1997) Six years ago… wow.