On a whim I picked up Appendix N, a purchase that I’ve been questioning, borderline regretting since the first chapter on Jack Vance in which the author gets a number of things wrong, including the notion that people don’t “get” (pseudo-)Vancian magic simply because they never read The Dying Earth. Magic in The Dying Earth […]
While prepping for a 10th-level-one-shot-kill-a-dragon-playtest, I realized that clerics that don’t specifically focus on the War, Fire, and/or Thunder Domains have only situational usefulness in combat (which we probably would’ve realized sooner if almost all of the playtest clerics didn’t pick the War Domain). A 5th-level fighter going down the Slayer/Sundering tree deals around 3d6+6 damage, with […]
Triggered in a totally not-Tumblrina-way by Timothy’s blogpost about clerics, I wanted to talk about what I don’t like about the traditional/classic portrayals of clerics in Dungeons & Dragons, and how I aim to fix it in FrankenFourth and Dungeons & Delvers (and to a point already did in Dungeon World). At the core of the problem is pseudo-Vancian magic. […]
It took waaay longer than I expected, but The Vancomancer (which is now a Best Silver Seller) has finally been updated (so if you already own it, check your Drivethru RPG library). In addition to boasting a new cover (colored by Melissa), here’s a list of other changes/additions: Two digest-sized pdfs. One lacks a background texture, so if […]
While two out of three is normally a pretty good ratio of success, the part that I did not like was the one that mattered the most to me: Despite owning Players Option: Combat & Tactics for many years, I never used the rules on facing. Actually I never used most of the rules, though if I did […]
Points of Light 