I love the idea of sages in a fantasy RPG. That scholar in their study with vast piles of paper, strange artifacts lying around, books half-forgotten, manuscripts half-written, quill pens and half-dried inkwells, perhaps the scholar themselves hard to find … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Blade & Crown
This is an amphora, like many used for shipping food, oil or other commodities. There are only two things that distinguish it from a thousand other amphorae: An ancient, extravagant script and glyph are inscribed on it; and A mud … Continue reading
Did you know there’s a sale going on at Lulu.com right now? You can get the print edition of Blade & Crown for just US$16.80 plus shipping and tax. Enter the coupon code FALLSALE40 before November 4! … Continue reading
Last weekend, I was at MethodCon. It was a lot of fun. A highlight for me was getting to do a Let’s Build a World activity again. We devised a world with a square orbit, constant meteor showers, and a … Continue reading
After tonight’s game (a fun take on the standard train robbery scenario), we briefly listed what games we currently have on the back burner: Eric’s Blade & Crown game. The two main PCs (here’s mine) had managed to become members … Continue reading
The Source has had Blade & Crown on sale in their bricks-and-mortar store since late last year. However, I noticed later on that they’d overpriced the book. I gently pointed this out a few times, and they’ve now got B&C … Continue reading
This past Thursday night we finally finished playtesting The Bandit Map, the adventure for Blade & Crown that I hope to have out soon. The scenario was pretty fun and this session, the last, involved equal parts silliness and seriousness. … Continue reading
How do you invoke an enchanted item? I always want magic to be evocative, and to help the players become more invested in the situation. For those reasons, just saying “I use my staff on the bad guy” seems… boring. … Continue reading
A question came up in last Sunday’s session of Blade & Crown: what’s the maximum magnitude of spell that a mage can align a node to? That is, if I know Metal Magic to level 3, can I align a … Continue reading
The second panel I was on, this one covered a lot of ground. Our purpose: to introduce a bunch of good, but obscure, RPGs. We talked about so many games that I don’t have time to properly introduce all of … Continue reading