I don’t think I’ve ever met a healing system that I like. My ideal healing rules would need to perfectly balance a bunch of factors: Player agency: The rules can’t make it feel like your healing is completely out of … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2014
In Morensia, mercenaries are fairly common. In fact, it is arguable that Morensia was founded by mercenaries. Many large towns will have hundreds of mercenaries headquartered in them, usually in several large or many small companies. Since the reign of … Continue reading
Snippets of poetry from the Imperium; a sample folk tale from the Oral History; brief biographies of over a dozen Duncan Idahos; two differing approaches to Paul Muad’Dib himself and to his son, Leto II; Fremen recipes; Fremen history; secrets … Continue reading
Traits don’t always have to be personality-based: You are Short. People may also take you less seriously for your diminutive stature, and you may have trouble reaching hand-holds when climbing, or striding across wide gaps. Yet you are also able … Continue reading
The ancient and possibly mythical hero Aros did many wonderful deeds in the Kreshar region of Morensia. Among these, he gave his last coin to a poor woman in the village of Arosart. When she bought a loaf of bread … Continue reading
So have I told you about my favorite Champions character? Well, third favorite actually, after The Human Cheese Grater and Bituminous Man, but he’s really my favorite in some ways because of the awesome time I, um, the time where … Continue reading
The Bundle of Holding, which I’ve been privileged to be part of, is currently featuring a bunch of very cool indie games: Torchbearer, Uresia the Grave of Heaven, Nobilis, Lords of Gossamer and Shadow (think: Amber Diceless 2nd edition) and … Continue reading
As part of designing Blade & Crown, I was naturally curious how the dice mechanic works. Do large numbers of dice make characters succeed all the time? What’s the difference between rolling one die and rolling three? With the help … Continue reading
I participate in the House of Indie Games track at Con of the North. We’re mostly just a bunch of friends who like indie games. Two of us have even published our own indie games (Blade & Crown and Heirs … Continue reading
A couple days ago, the Con of the North 2015 program book came in the mail. And it is very big. Here’s the 2015 book, with the 2014 book for comparison: The new program book is letter size, with glossy … Continue reading