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Wow. Nobilis Week sure got interrupted. By, among other things, Nobilis. Our new play-group had our get-to-know-you dinner and start at chargen last night. My dry-rub ribs were excellent, thank you, and it looks like our PC Estates will be Wood, The Moment, Fatherhood and Separation. We’ll wrap up chargen in earnest next Friday night. [...]
Backswords and Bucklers, Elizabethan fantasy retroclone gaming. Especially for Ginger’s attention. I’ll write more about my read-through when I have more time, but it’s got a lot of nice mods to a white-box D&D base, and I really like the character classes. The Scoundrel is a sweet thief/rogue variant and the Wise Woman class is [...]
Man, the kidz love untested house rules for D&D retro-clones they haven’t read or played! I believe I may succeed in killing this blog again. But, in for a penny, in for a platinum piece, as we say. And, I happen to know that two different co-bloggers have posts in draft, so hang in there [...]
Keep in mind that what I really want is a swords & sorcery or dungeon-fantasy RPG that’s tuned to play-groups of two or three players plus GM, so things that would bog down a larger group don’t concern me. Nor am I after a super-high level of realism because, seriously, there isn’t a lot of [...]
Since I’ve been thinking about doing some kind of swords & sorcery gaming again, I’ve been thinking and reading about armor and weapons again. And also about one of my bigger problems with early versions of D&D: fighters are boring. And about my biggest problem with all versions of D&D: all editions of the game [...]
We wrapped up our first Nobilis 3e campaign at the end of last month. The very first evening of July we’ll have a get-acquainted dinner and start of chargen for the next one. (I know almost everybody. A couple of people don’t know each other. One is the SO of someone I know.) The [...]
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