Carl Walter is converting a pre-existing campaign over to Blade & Crown, and wrote me to ask several questions about how to do so. Rather than just replying to him, I asked if it’d be okay if I quoted his … Continue reading
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This one’s almost a no-brainer, but the recent discussion reminded of it: You are paranoid. You find threats everywhere, and believe many of them to be linked in a conspiracy against you. This may cause you to shy from dangers … Continue reading
My second and last GMed game of the weekend, this went a bit looser than Karna’s Cache did. But as with the prior game, I made sure to have a good variety of important characters for players to choose from, … Continue reading
This was the first game that I ran at Con of the North 2013. I used Blade & Crown, as I so often do these days. The scenario concerned a group of thieves living in a tenement together who discover … Continue reading
Like a lot of gamers, I have a lot of dice. I even have a set of spares that I keep at home. But I carry my main set with me in a large, purple leather bag. I used to … Continue reading
For Heirs to the Lost World, Chad Davidson created NPC cards: just the right size to fit in Magic: the Gathering card sleeves, and with just enough information to run NPCs in combat. It was obviously a brilliant idea, so … Continue reading
This year’s Con of the North is February 15-17 — just a few weeks away! At the Con, I’ll be running two Blade & Crown events: Karna’s Cache Honor among thieves? Well, we all stick together, and old man Karna … Continue reading
Something I’ve thought about occasionally, and which I didn’t spell out all that much in the book, is how to streamline B&C combat. If you want it all to go smoother, faster or more abstractly, what sub-systems should you take … Continue reading
The Traits listed in Blade & Crown were never intended to be the only ones possible; many, many more have yet to be invented and described. As another occasional series, I’m going to describe other Traits that I’ve come up … Continue reading
Whenever I GM, and fairly often when I don’t, I lug this thing with me. It’s a gym bag, Oleg Cassini I think, that I acquired for free somewhere along the line. It’s just about the right size. It usually … Continue reading