If there’s another edition of D&D that has more settings and reskinned environments than fifth edition, I don’t know what it is. It’s a good game system; a nearly perfect balance of crunch and DM fait accompli. I don’t think it’s a universal system, and there are some suppositions baked into the game (like armor class and to a lesser extent, alignment) which is hard to square up in certain genres, like science fiction. Why people keep wanting to do space opera with d20 is a mystery to me in a world where we have Star Wars and Traveller, but I digress.
Tag: D&D
Table Talk: Get Outta Town
Starting today I am going to strive to produce and post at least one rpg gaming entry a week. I’m going to try to brand them with this nifty graphic I tricked up, for those of you who want to tell at a glance if this is something you want to read or not.
Field Report: GameHole Con, Madison, WI
We are back from a road trip that may have been several days in the making, but was still over a thousand dollars cheaper than simply flying… Read more “Field Report: GameHole Con, Madison, WI”
Tools of the Trade, now in book form!
Hmm? What’s that? Oh, nothing, just this new tabletop role-playing game supplement I wrote. It’s now available in book form. You can grab yourself a copy of… Read more “Tools of the Trade, now in book form!”
Nerd Alert! A New RPG Book for Fantasy Heists!
Sound the whoop whoop! There’s a new book on the horizon! It’s called Tools of the Trade: A GM’s Guide to Creating and Running Fantasy Heists, and… Read more “Nerd Alert! A New RPG Book for Fantasy Heists!”
From the Vault: The Movies of Dungeons & Dragons, Part 3 – Secondary Sources
As the 1980s trundled on, fueled by Miami Vice, swatches, and Duran Duran videos, the fantasy films should have gotten better, but they didn’t. After such a promising start, the rush to make more of the same spawned a host of shittier and shitter sword and sorcery movies, each one worse that the last. The genre had split into two tracks: cheap-o boob-grab exploitation nonsense, or big budget ham-fisted embarrassments, and both of these new movie styles served to give Sword and Sorcery a bad name.
From the Vault: The Movies of Dungeons & Dragons, Part 2 – the Harryhausen Playbook
Second in a 5 part series about the sword and sorcery movies of the 1980s as they related to our Dungeons & Dragons games.
From the Vault: The Movies of Dungeons & Dragons, Part 1
First in a 5 part series about the sword and sorcery movies of the 1980s as they related to our Dungeons & Dragons games.
Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 007
With most of the driving behind us, the rocket-powered tour bus zoomed us, at way-too-early-in-the-morning, to the docks, and we boarded a medium-sized cruise ship, for a… Read more “Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 007”
Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 006
Dateline: Athens. After a whirlwind drive through the countryside, at breakneck speeds, up and down two-lane roads that a mountain goat would have balked at transversing, we… Read more “Operation: Greco-Roamin’, Entry 006”