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The Basics of the Game Late Night Ramble 126

Tonight’s Ramble is me apologizing for having delay a day on the Intro to Ultron.

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October 30, 2014
Blogroll, Pop Culture, Uncategorized

The Hobbit The Unexpected Journey

I saw the Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey.  It is good, very good in fact.  It is not perfect, but very few things are.  I like how they handled the added…

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December 17, 2012
Blogroll, Game Material, Writing

Setting Project: The People of Ballad

More world building for the world of Ballad. This time I look at the native (not human) races of Ballad.

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February 17, 2020
  • Blogroll,  Game Material

     Broken States: a Cyberpunk Future

    July 6, 2022 / Comments Off on  Broken States: a Cyberpunk Future

    I am doing the RPG Writer’s Workshop again this month. This is an attempt to break my writer’s block, among other things. This time around I decided to write an adventure for a system other than D&D for a change. This time I am working on a cyberpunk genre adventure for Modern AGE by Green Ronin. It is a system I wish I had more time to play. As part of this adventure, I decided I needed at least a rough background. I am not writing this for an existing world, so I figured I should have some world information to put in the adventure. Just enough to have a…

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    Removing Monks 2 The Paladin option

    October 24, 2019
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    4 Magic Bows

    November 4, 2021 / 1 Comment

    There is always a need for more magic weapons in D&D. Simply having a +1 just doesn’t feel that satisfying a lot of the time. I like items that are little more varied than simply doing more damage.

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    February 10, 2021

    Elemental Beasts part 2

    June 25, 2020

    Talking about high level play and reasons why it isn’t happening.

    December 30, 2019
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    Making Encounter Tables

    July 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Making Encounter Tables

    Making an Encounter table is an interesting exercise. In some ways it is a statement of the tone of your game. Do you have a half dozen silly encounters? Do you have 8 generic wilderness encounters with beasts? Do you have combat encounters? Role playing? Chilling atmospheric encounters? Each says something about the style of game you are running.   Whatever the case, you are generating a list of events you wouldn’t mind showing in your game. You are generating a list of things that fit enough that you don’t care which one shows up. Even having an enormous table says something.   But some folks don’t know where to start.  So…

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    April 12, 2017

    More Scifi fifth edition, with more background

    January 1, 2017

    Paladin’s World

    June 18, 2021
  • Blogroll,  Game Material,  Games

    Paladin’s World

    June 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Paladin’s World

    I recently started playing a game called Sentinel Comics RPG run by my friend Jared Rascher.  It is a newer superhero system with an interesting structure to its combat, a deep amount of lore, and a somewhat randomized character creation which calls back to the feel of classic Marvel Superheroes RPG without being so random as to make the characters silly. The lore of the game is also based on the board game called Sentinels of the Multiverse. I made a character called Paladin, because his abilities were supernatural and began to resemble paladins from D&D. I created a lose history for the character, but I realized after playing him…

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    Space to Breathe

    February 2, 2021

    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 4: Micro-settings

    January 26, 2019

    When Immortals Adventure

    April 17, 2018
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    Cyberpunk: The genre and the games.

    May 26, 2021 / Comments Off on Cyberpunk: The genre and the games.

    Cyberpunk 2077 has been the source of much conversation. It was long-awaited and there much hype preceding its release. The launch didn’t go…swimmingly. There were some well-published bugs, particularly in older consoles. Beyond that people complained about it not being “punk” enough because you can work for the police, or the problems of the social media managers being transphobic, or the fact that they made the developer do mandatory overtime as part of pre-launch crunch, or…. let’s just say it was a rocky start. I actually played the game via Stadia and had fewer technical problems as a result. Actually playing through the game, I got to appreciate the things…

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    January 26, 2019
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    Something in the future wants you dead

    May 18, 2021 / Comments Off on Something in the future wants you dead

    I think the Terminator series would make a brilliant D&D adventure idea for a D&D Plot.

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    The Kingdom of Durnham pt 2: The Chapel

    April 9, 2018

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    April 19, 2017

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    April 9, 2016
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    Weapons

    February 10, 2021 / Comments Off on Weapons

    Argath bent his hulking body over the bench. His thick fingers were bent to the work of shaping the small pins down into place. They were to hold the ruby in its mount. The dull red gem looked like a large drop of blood frozen in motion. It contrasted with the gold wirework on the pommel.

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    November 25, 2016
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    The Many Settings of Dungeons and Dragons part 3: The Meta-Settings

    January 1, 2019
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    Inspiration

    February 8, 2021 / Comments Off on Inspiration

    Had a hard time concentrating today. I decided to turn that into writing about a way I will sometimes try to fight writer's block and how weird it is. I managed to write something which feels like a victory.

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    August 15, 2020
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    January 8, 2020

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    January 8, 2018
  • Blogroll,  fiction,  Writing

    The Oath

    February 6, 2021 / Comments Off on The Oath

    This one was odd because I feel like I want to write more on it but I am not sure. I liked the notion of figuring out what to swear on.

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    The Climb

    February 5, 2021 / Comments Off on The Climb

    Day 5 of my Flash Fiction February entries. The suggested prompt was "Challenge" so I went with a story about a climb in my Space Gods setting I keep revisiting.

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