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The Compleat Traveller in Black by John Brunner My rating: 3 of 5 stars Somehow I expected a bit more of this one. It was enjoyable, yes, and the setting was something not seen...
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Day 3: First dungeon you explored as a PC or ran as a DM. Hmm… my memories here are a bit foggy. I think it was either the first dungeon from the Starter Set or the one from...
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Hmm.. I noticed that I might be kind of weird in this blog hop. I actually decided to post all the questions and answers in seperate entries. Most of the other participants...
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…only this time D&D stands for Drakar och Demoner, as in the Swedish RPG I just wrote about yesterday. Well, the acting and the special effects don’t seem to be really that...
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Drakar och Demoner (Dragons and Demons, confusingly abbreviated D&D) is the Swedish standard fantasy RPG. This is where the hobby started in that country back in the 80s and...
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With the 40th birthday of D&D happening there have been a lot of blogposts about that lately. d20 Dark Ages called for a blog hop (whatever that is) celebrating the whole...
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Zombie Whale No. Enc.: 1 (1d4) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 60’ (30’) Armor Class: 4 Hit Dice: 15 +3 Attacks: 1 (swallow or zombie powder) Damage: 1d4+2 or special Save: TH4...
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I just found the youtube channel of Ender4life, who put together some videos with background noises from various Star Trek and Star Wars series/movies. I think this stuff might...
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Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Paul Magrs My rating: 4 of 5 stars The problem with Doctor Who novels is the same as with a lot of franchise-based stuff: you never know...
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The City & the City by China Miéville My rating: 5 of 5 stars It starts as a typical noirish murder mystery: Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Division in the...
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline My rating: 4 of 5 stars There was one point in this novel where I was grinding my teeth. It was spelled out for the characters how to find the...
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Shadows Over Baker Street by Michael Reaves My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the collection Neil Gaiman’s famous, Hugo-award winning Sherlock Holmes/Lovecraft...
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I liked Syrinscape when I last was looking for a soundscape program. It wasn’t the nicest looking of programs, and it had some bugs when running it over Wine, but it was...
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Did I mention cats in my last entry? Because… cats. If our tom wouldn’t also manage to be the sweetest of kittens in his good moments we would have sold him on ebay years ago....
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I bought myself Arkham Horror last week and right away noticed that there will have to be some special measures. Both my cats decided that the trial first game I set up was the...
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Part of a series of meditations on how to crossover Traveller: Interstellar Wars with GURPS: Transhuman Space 1) The United Nations Let’s straight away tackle the big...
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The last few months I have been thinking about welding together the GURPS Transhuman Space and GUPRS Traveller Interstellar Wars settings into a more or less coherent whole....
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* the thief lies dying on the ground after an attack, slowly bleeding out, the goblin cleric was just hit with a critical and lost his ear. What is the most reasonable thing to...
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Now that is something nice I came across today when looking through the categories at Sourceforge (I was looking for a task managing tool that could sync with Google Tasks, I...
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Sometimes stuff bubbles up from the depths of my subconscious that I didn’t know that was there for decades, like in a pot of a very inclusive stew that all of a sudden shows...
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I was going to use this in the PBEM game I was doing right now. The Unseen Shadow A strange phenomena appears to you as you investigate the workbench in the old forgotten...
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Bennies The idea comes from Savage Worlds, a benny is a single token that can be exchanged at one point during the game for a certain effect. Every player (GM included) gains a...
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Chocobo (Riding Bird) No. Enc.: 1d4 (1d20+4) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 60’ (30’) Armor Class: 6 Hit Dice: 2 +4 Attacks: 1 (bite 1d8+2 or claw 1d6+2) Damage: 1d4+2 or special...
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Spellslot System (aka The Even-more-Vancian-and-a-bit-Pratchettian System) When Magic users gain experience they gain a better understanding for the workings of magic and...
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I was not idle the last few weeks, I was just busy with other things and in places that didn’t have a good internet connection for blogging. Christmas, and work, and other...
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So, the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey… too good to really be bad, too sedate and full of padding to really be good. Comes out as mediocre. Fans of the LOTR movies might like...
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Chupacapra No. Enc.: 1d6 (3d6+4) Alignment: Neutral Movement: 40’ (20’) Armor Class: 8 Hit Dice: 5 +1 Attacks: 1 (claw 1d4+2, grapple) Damage: 1d4+2 or special Save: MU5...
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Requirements: CON 9 Prime Requisite: STR Hit Dice: 1d8 Maximum Level: 12 Vikings have a reputation to be great seamen, great drinkers, and often inclined to appropriate other’s...
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I don’t know if I came across this information earlier, but I think I might have: it sounds vaguely familiar. The very, very classic game ADVENT (or Colossal Cave Adventure, or...
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Remember when I wrote about Syrinscape last week? It’s a soundscape program for RPGs that allows to create background noises for your RPG sessions. It already comes with a nice...