I’ve blogged about Otherkind dice a few times. Once describingthem as a game mechanism of the week, once describing how I’ve incorporated them into other projects (such as FUBAR), I’ve described them with respect to Vector Theory. But there i…

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Coming Soon: Resolute, Adventurer & Genius from Stargazer's World

After the flurry of work to get Warrior, Rogue & Mage ready, I had time to think about how the Wyrm system might be adapted to other genres.

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The Hit Point Gauge: A nifty alternative for tracking hit points from Gaming Brouhaha » RPG

A recent post on RPG Geek, along with playing some basic D&D with my eight-year-old son this weekend, got me thinking about different ways of tracking hit points and in a stroke of inspiration I came up with this alternative method that I thoug…

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The Architect DM: Function & Playability from Critical Hits » RPG

Welcome to the second installment of my series about applying real world design concepts to your own personal D&D or tabletop RPG world. Last week's post was a relatively broad overview of the basic aspects to consider while designing a location. Today I would like to look at a different approach to designing locations, which involves thinking more about how the game will actually play out and how your players (and you as the DM/GM) will use and interact with the environment you're creating.

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Thinking About Skills & Abilities from Age of Ravens

Today some thinking about how to restructure Skills/Abilities in Action Cards, our house system. I'm still working on the 3.0 revision.

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Just one more formulaic CRPG-ification bullet into the imagination at the heart of RPGs from KORE rpg » rpg

This is another of my rails against the nature of where RPGs seem to be headed in my opinion. So if you’re not interested in reading my rant and joining in on what my horoscope says should be a lively discussion and debate, then move along, nothing to see here

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The King’s Crib from World of Alidor

I am still rolling forward on my to kill a king dungeon. To help me out, I purchased a GameMastery flip-mat. I have quite a collection of these now

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Proving Grounds of a Million Mad Overlords from Trollsmyth

A bit over a year ago (Friday, July 17, to be exact) I complained about the lack of outreach to potentially new gamers . Apparently, I should also start complaining about not having a million bucks because oh what a difference a year makes

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Practice Makes Perfect from THE LOQUACIOUS COYOTE

I've been contemplating the rules vs.

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What Wizards of the Coast is Doing Wrong with Their "Encounters" Program from Cinerati

Yesterday was a great day for this blog. I posted about my frustration that Wizards of the Coast is using KEEP ON THE BORDERLANDS as the basis for their next Encounters Program adventure. I ended up getting more visitors than usual and received some good comments.

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Y entre esos artículos he encontrado uno muy curioso titulado Tonight is my last 4e game , escrito por shent_lodge en octubre del año pasado.
El artículo comienza con una introducción en la que el autor explica por qué comenzó a jugar esta edición y los motivos finales por los que la abandona. Y a continuación, añade:

No me siento parte de la audiencia a la que va dirigida esta edición. Para mí, los RPG van más allá de "tirar los dados" y hablar y equivocarse y tomar decisiones como grupo bajo el juicio último del DM. La cuarta edición es más un híbrido de juego de dados y de cartas donde un jugador intenta contar una historia y "arroja" monstruos y retos de habilidad, y luego recompensa a los jugadores con magia. Los jugadores actúan como Dungeon Masters menores contando lo que sus cartas de poderes hacen al monstruo de turno. Todo es metajuego y tácticas, y combates exageradamente largos combinados con la expansión de reglas más aburrida y machacona que he visto nunca.
De acuerdo, la 3.5 también tendía a hinchar las reglas, pero podías jugar con un gnomo sin tener que comprar un segundo libro. Se supone que es más divertido para los jugadores más jóvenes, que no conocen nada mejor y tienen cubos llenos de dinero para entregar a los creadores del juego.

Recuerdo mejores tiempos en este juego. Lo positivo es que estoy ansioso por utilizar Pathfinder en sustitución de la 4e. Así que, tras la partida de esta noche, los nueve libros de la 4e que compré descansarán para siempre en la estantería.