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It is maybe quite telling that Mrs. McCrumb barely mentions these two books anywhere on her website, despite winning an award for the first one.
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I have been working on a game set in 2050s Seattle lately. So I started to try and understand the setting a bit better to get the feel for it. Which is a bit funny, considering...
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I logged in and WordPress tells me my last post was 9 months ago. Sigh. Did I mention we have a toddler now? I plan to rear a fledgling gamer over time, but right now he’s more...
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Well, more or less at least. Remember all the posts I had, oh, years ago, regarding modding some variant of D&D for a Discworld game? Huh, looking over them there were A LOT. I...
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Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb My rating: 3 of 5 stars I don’t know any other mystery novel that uses a D&D game as a parlor scene. This one does. Unfortunately the...
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I think I am overdoing this whole thing a bit. The whole project was supposed to be a clone of basic D&D with Harnic furnishings. And I am still working on it. To be fair,...
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Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry by David Robertson My rating: 3 of 5 stars In the mid-2000s Lego was the...
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Have I mentioned that I love the Wilderlands of High Fantasy? Especially when they are odd and weird and full of errors? From Tegel Manor: Does the fact that the module came...
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The last few days I somehow ended up delving into the free and pay what you want sections on rpgnow and drivethrurpg (what exactly is the difference between those two...
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ダンジョン飯 (Dungeon Meshi) is one of these cute little gimmick manga that are just a joy to read, but whose ideas might be a bit too far out for everyone involved Our heroes are a...
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Sometimes it is quite interesting what comes out when I just change something small, and then think it through again. I added one version of the Death and Dismemberment table...
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I always found Alignments in RPGs to be a stupid idea. At one point I went through my houserules and deleted all mentions of evil or good out of them. At least the...
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Well. At first berserkers were just a fighter variant in the draft. I decided to cut down the classes to the four core classes, but I wanted some variety. After all clerics in...
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A person with no fighting skill has a 50/50 chance of hurting someone with no armor at all. A person with one level of fighting skill has a 50/50 chance of hitting someone with...
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This last week I have been sick. With lots of time on my hands I have been working on a version of Labyrinth Lord that is more suited for playing on HârnWorld. By now the whole...
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So, I had my first session on Hârn two days ago. We played my unholy mess of an OD&D/AD&D hack, and I decided to make character generation part of the game (the players were...
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I put together a list of currently active RPG companies a while ago. The reason for that was mostly to check how the hobby actually looks like right now. I don’t think I know...
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It has been a year since we played any RPG. I was just talking about this with one of my players. The last RPG we played was the second session of Shadowrun a year ago, and...
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Did I mention Fluxx before? We played it again tonight. We had a boardgame evening (no time for proper roleplaying 😦 ), and used Monty Python Fluxx as a warm-up. You see, there...
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Success! My work’s proxy is now blocking this blog because “Games”. Not WordPress though, just the actual blog. So I can post but cannot read what I posted.
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I bought myself the Call of Cthulhu London Box by Cubicle 7 as a slightly belated birthday gift to myself. Have I even mentioned before that I started Masks of Nyarlathotep...
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Lately I reconsidered my disdain for Magic: The Gathering; I even spent a lot of money buying new cards, and found my old cards back at my parents’ place. I bought Magic: Duels...
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Ready Ref Sheets, page 49: By the way, apples show up only as rare crab apples and as the unique Golden Apple. This means that in any given hex you have a 1/400 chance of...
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Terry Pratchett is dead. I don’t think there is a single other author who had such an influence on me and my view of the world. Scribner once said “Reading is a means of...
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Action! Magic! Matrix! Cheesy CGI! Improbable 80s hairstyles! This one has it all!
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So, we had our first session of Shadowrun 5th edition today. It was a bit of a surprise for me. I had the rules beforehand (only as a pdf though, which was hard to read from),...
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So yesterday my wife[1] and me went to the International Festival of Comics and Games in Lodz (Międzynarodowy Festiwal Komiksu w Łodzi). Yes, there is an international comics...
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Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nervous architect Mr. Thipps had the unpleasant surprise of finding a dead gentleman wearing nothing but a pince-nez in...
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The Chinese Maze Murders by Robert van Gulik My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Judge Dee novels by Robert van Gulik are a strange beast. The author was in the Dutch diplomatic...
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Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston My rating: 3 of 5 stars One thing that is very noticeable is that the situation the protagonists get thrown in in this book is...