Con of the North 2016 is now over. I’m recovering from a little bit of con crud. I usually don’t suffer from that kind of thing, but other commitments necessitated getting to the con on Saturday with far too little … Continue reading
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Con of the North 2016 starts tomorrow, and I still have a lot to do: Paint some markers for my Blade & Crown game Transfer a bunch of prep to my netbook Create one or two more PCs Print all … Continue reading
A sagacious reader noticed another actual error in Blade & Crown: the human encounters (starting c. page 122) have their SIZ calculated wrong. There was a stage in the development of the rules where SIZ was calculated as (STR × … Continue reading
Like a lot of people, I’ve played the Android game 80 Days a bit lately. I like a lot of the writing, which is generally quite clever. Although based on Verne’s novel, it has a lot of additions, in the … Continue reading
The weekly group continues to play Ryuutama. We’re getting more familiar with the system, albeit not fully learning it. (There are enough technicalities and exceptions in the rules that we continue needing to check the book on a pretty frequent … Continue reading
Two very important articles on different blogs have been posted recently: Tanya D has some very important things to say about getting paid as a marginalized person. And how a lot of our work around diversity ends up getting repaid … Continue reading
I missed this post from Gianni Vacca back in September: Due to all the changes going on with Chaosium and their Basic Roleplaying/D100-based systems, Alephtar Games has lost licensing rights for Chaosium games, so Celestial Empire is no longer going … Continue reading
Another couple small errata for Blade & Crown: the damage factors for thrown spears and javelins are probably wrong. I think the actual pierce damage factor for a throwing spear should be around 6, instead of the 2 it is … Continue reading
A lot of games, Blade & Crown included, have a specific statement that players should only roll for success on task attempts when there’s actually a chance of failure. If a halfway-competent sword-fighter is trying to hit a rock that’s … Continue reading
My monthly Blade & Crown game has been going for a little over four years now. I have a terrible memory, and so I keep somewhat detailed notes about what happens in each session. I keep these notes in a … Continue reading