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You probably have heard the news about #dndnext by now — the impending Fifth Edition of Dungeons and Dragons.
Of course, there are all sorts of rumors flying around, but probably the most interesting thing that’s come out of the media hubbub is this bit from Monte Cook:
…imagine a game where one [...]
Rather than reviewing a particular book today, I’m going to talk about how a setting I’ve long been interested in opened up for me in the “I want to run this, and feel I can” way.
One of my regular players, Lon Braidwood, is the biggest fan of Fading Suns I know personally. Other folks [...]
I. In Which I Provide an Overview of Treasure
Treasure is the shiny new engine behind wondrous objects and artifacts in Nobilis. But it also covers your mom, too.
In short, Treasure is the stat that lets you claim and manipulate anything that’s not technically you or your Estate, but is closely related to you [...]
Hi! Brief intro: Jim knows me from years on the Amber Mailing List (now sadly very very slow). I live in Oakland, California, and I’m involved in a reasonably large amount of face to face gaming.
I started gaming, back in the day, with Amber and Paranoia, the one of which is certainly diceless and [...]
Let’s talk a little bit about what you actually do in Nobilis 3e. It is kind of different from what you do in other games, I think.
In other, less fun games (she said facetiously), there is some fundamental set of tools you use and tasks you perform. In Dungeons and Dragons, you use sword and spell to [...]
I was just reading a Story Games thread on dissociation and Vincent’s clouds. For some reason, on this the millionth time I’ve read the dissociation essay and gotten prickly about it, I pushed a little bit harder and thought about it in reference to IIEE theory. (Intent, Initiation, Execution, Effect. See here.) Fairly [...]
As I promised in comments, I’ve picked up Apocalypse World and looked it over. Parts are neat: when I do my “gaming art is soooo much better than in the old days” post, it’ll be included. Parts will need pondering. Parts are, for me, just ghastly.
One of the side effects of my disabilities is [...]
A quick note to start out: I’m super excited that 20×20 is back and hope that it will continue to serve as a hub for people with different tastes and from different communities to get together and talk about roleplaying. The internet can definitely feel like an echo chamber sometimes and this blog has historically [...]
Ironically, I wrote last night’s post after one of my occasional “standing sprees,” which happened while GMing Nobilis. The PCs paid their first visit to Lord Entropy, and I played a good half of the scene standing up. This was just a bit of physicality welling up from a bedrock of yakking. In this [...]
I’ve started playing in a Shadowrun game run by one of my friends, and it is good. There is one really icky-creepy thing we’ve found in the setting, though. So, the Shadowrun setting uses orks as a stand-in for blacks,…
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