Quick game design idea for combat: attackers get a +1 bonus to hit a creature, for every attack beyond the first. Doesn’t count for multiple attacks, only from different creatures. So if you attack a gnoll, and then someone else does, they get +1 to hit. The reasoning is that if you gang up on […]
Waaay back in March, Melissa and I did an interview with James and Spence (who apparently likes spiders as much as Melissa) from Game School, a podcast show dedicated to interviewing game designers. You get to hear straight from the designer’s mouth how the game works, listen to them go through various mechanics and character creation, and […]
Cast Dymlos (level 1 human monk/level 4 spellsword) Miyoshi (level 5 nekobito shaman) Yao Lao (level 5 human monk) Session Highlights After killing the ash wolves the party continues their ascent; it takes at least a half-cycle to reach the bone tunnel’s exit. They’re once again greeted with blinding snow, but a steep mountain range […]
In our bi-weekly A Sundered World campaign the players are searching for sunlight in the corpse of Skoll, the wolf that devoured the sun during the Sundering. They’ve crawled up through her radius or ulna (doesn’t really matter which), and have now entered one of the lungs, which I’m calling either the lung labyrinth or bronchial […]
Here’s the current talent list for the Red Book sorcerer’s undead bloodline: Animate Dead Animate Monster Breath of Death Chill Touch Clutch of Death Command Undead Contingency Corpse Dawn of the Dead Death’s Black Rider Decaying Touch Dismember Draining Touch Dust to Dust Eater of the Dead Ectoplasmic Armor Ectoplasmic Touch Frightener Ghastly Pallor Ghost in […]
And Melissa also got around to coloring the roper: Announcements You can now get a physical copy of Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book in whatever format you want (the PDF is also on sale on DriveThru)! We’ve also released the first big supplement for it, Appendix D, so pick that up if you want more of […]
Cast Dymlos (level 1 human monk/level 4 spellsword) Miyoshi (level 5 nekobito shaman) Yao Lao (level 5 human monk) Session Highlights With the dwarves safe and the silver mine more or less secure, one of the dwarves, Kordek, tells Dymlos that he might know of a way to break the curse on his wife: sunlight. […]
The current iteration of the Red Book rogue has been added to Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book (check the red book class previews zip file)! Beyond the addition of a slew of new talents (over 40 not counting dual-wielding talents), this class didn’t really get any major mechanical changes or additions. This wasn’t terribly surprising, as Melissa’s […]
Melissa finally got around to coloring that emerald dragon: This was mostly a proof of concept. Wasn’t planning on doing a psionics thing right away, but after Red Book comes out. Still fun to do and happy with how it turned out. Maybe do the ruby dragon, next. Announcements You can now get a physical copy […]
I don’t think I’ve ever used or ran into a roper, so I was surprised to learn that their tentacles drain Strength. I did know that they live underground and can look like stalagmites, and while statting them up for Dungeons & Delvers I was reminded of the mimic octopus’s ability to change its skin color and […]
Points of Light 