Since the last time I collected my current Blade & Crown campaign notes into a PDF, they have (of course) only grown. I recently completed a re-read of them. It was very instructive, as well as fun. This time, I … Continue reading
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Since my move to Taiwan, my monthly Blade & Crown group has continued pretty much unabated. Our group is now pretty widely scattered. Most of the players are in the Twin Cities, but one is in the Pacific Northwest, and … Continue reading
Convergence finally asks me to be an Invited Participant, and what happens? I’m not even in the country for it. It’s been a major break between posts here, and for good reason. At the beginning of May, I started a … Continue reading
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
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
Episode 30 of Fresh Out of Tokens, featuring me, is up! When we recorded this last month, Tanya, David and I talked about all kinds of things: making it (or not) as a woman/trans/POC/otherwise marginalized game creator; diversity considerations when … Continue reading
Eek! Life is busy, and deadlines sneak up. I just realized that the deadline for event requests for Con of the North is today! If you’re planning to go and you haven’t already submitted your event picks, go to the … Continue reading
I continue to work hard on Calteir. I have big plans for this over the next month or so, meaning that posting here is only occasional. Mountains on the main Calteir map are the big focus right now. So I’m … Continue reading