The truth is that allergies and heat are still being very unkind to the rare Ballard Spotted Bruce, but I have something in hand I want to enthuse about anyway: The Book of Glorious Joy, written by Jamie Revell. I’ve had this in proof form for a while now, and am delighted that it’s finally [...]
More Pathfinder-compatible fun today, featuring the ever-capable Owen K.C. Stephens’ Anachronistic Adventurers: The Enforcer, a 19-page PDF available from DriveThruRPG for $2.99 US. Owen writes his own introductions just fine, so I’ll quote:
The enforcer is the epitome of the modern fighting combatant, from professional soldier to citizen militia, mercenary-of-fortune to experienced insurgent, and [...]
Tonight I’m looking at an adventure for 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons, The Adventures of Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer: Shadows of Mirahan. Some of you need to stop laughing, and some of you need to go fire up any convenient heavy metal or hard rock album to listen to while reading this. (In case you’re not [...]
A couple days ago, I burbled about a book for people playing intelligent but not anthropomorphic animals. Today I’ve got the logical companion to that: Fursona: The Definitive Guide to Creating Anthropomorphic Characters, by Chris A. Field. This is a 105-page PDF, available for $9.99 from DriveThruRPG. It’s written with the Pathfinder RPG in [...]
Today I’m going to praise The Noble Wild, a D&D 3.x supplement by Lee Garvin. It’s a 168-page PDF for sale for $8.99 US at DriveThruRPG. The subtitle is “An Animal Player’s Handbook for Fantasy Role-Playing Games”, and that’s just what this is: a book about playing characters who are intelligent but still animals. [...]
The Neat Gaming post series will be shared between 20′ by 20′ Room and Google+. Here’s the Google+ comment in which I announced my intention:
I got really grumpy tonight about some of the usual cascades of gamer negativity tonight, and I’ve decided to do something about it. My new goal is to write about [...]
Tonight, I played my first romance-themed roleplaying game ever — Jake Richmond and Heather Aplington’s G X B (Girl X Boy)*, an anime-themed dating roleplaying game.
Now, I’d heard of games like Elizabeth Shoemaker’s It’s Complicated and Emily Care Boss’s Three Quick Games About the Human Heart series, but I hadn’t really ever ventured [...]
The last couple of days I’ve been reading Jenna Moran’s 2009 freebie, Projects: A Manual of Ambition. A simplified and reworked version of A Manual of Ambition becomes a critical subsystem in Nobilis 3e, fostering, structuring and pacing player-initiated plotlines. The Nobilis version is more radical mechanically than the A Manual of Ambition, even mindblowing, [...]
My playtest review of The Princes’ Kingdom is up on RPG.Net as of this morning. I give it a 4/4 in RPG.Net’s somewhat sketchy ranking system. No one will be able to deny the review’s . . . length. UPDATE:…
Last night we were missing one of Nine Worlds players, so we playtested The Court of the Empress. Short version: The sucker works, pretty much exactly the way I hoped it would. Longer version: We ran the game three times,…
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