Day 5 – Most Recent RPG Purchase *cracks knuckles* So, I didn’t go to GenCon this year. I’d thought long and deeply about it, but in the end decided not to; on the bright side, if I decide to go next year I should have enough frequent flyer miles and Marriott reward points to comp some of … More #RPGaDAY2015 Day 5 – Recent Acquisitions
Six months of playing the new D&D and it’s starting to come together real well. On the bright side, it has the most compact and streamlined D&D rules I’ve ever seen, with a lot of awesome design choices. Are there any downsides, though? Well… … More Some Thoughts on Five
Last week I heard a number of Pathfinder players talking about D&D Next’s organized play announcement, complaining that it lifts faction-based play from Pathfinder Society. The thing being, Society lifted the idea of organized play from the RPGA, established by TSR and inherited by Wizards of the Coast, who then toyed with faction/regional organization in their Living Greyhawk/Living … More Pricings & Predicaments
I wasn’t around back when the original D&D Red Box set by Frank Mentzer came out, the entry drug that launched a thousand ships of the imagination. I did get a copy second-hand that dad bought off eBay, and from its clear and concise writing to starting an adventure within five minutes of opening the box to its badass … More Getting Started: RPGs For Beginners
So, I’m playing in a Pathfinder game again. (Yeah, I know; just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.) It’s simple math, but I’m surprised there’s no core chart for the progression of Pathfinder’s Power Attack feat, which is only really a problem because I’m lazy and have a character who’s using … More [Pathfinder] Power Attack Progression
A while back, a friend of mine asked for a brief overview on the different D&D editions; at the time (June 2012), the “edition wars” were in full swing, dominating the message boards and the communal hivemind of most D&D players. I say “most” because there’s a lot of history, baggage, and bile for a … More A Brief History of the Edition Wars
One of D&D Next’s big new mechanics are Advantage and Disadvantage, probably the most innovative and unique mechanic the playtest has left us with. Instead of passing out modifiers, the DM instead passes out Advantages and Disadvantages: the former lets you roll 2d20 and take the better result, the latter has you rolling 2d20 and … More D&D Next: Advantage/Disadvantage
I got my signed copy of Razor Coast in the mail last week (number 68 out of 500), and spent the weekend reading through it. When I originally kicked in for it, I was mostly interested in the “high age of sail” done D&D by Nick Logue, one of the stalwarts behind the Pathfinder adventure … More The Build-A-Campaign Campaign: Razor Coast
For a long time now I’ve been interested in running an old-school points-of-light style fantasy game, for no particular reason. I’ve never played or run one, so it’s not for nostalgia’s sake; rather, it’s probably for the opposite reason—because I’ve never really experienced with that style of game. “Points of Light” was the one thing … More Points of Light, Oceans of Darkness
With my new job, my free time’s gone down the toilet, hence the lack of substantial updates and the general focus more on tech and electronic gaming over tabletop gaming and other stuff. It’s not that I don’t have content to post, it’s just that I don’t have time to polish it up and post … More Status Update
Logic is my Virgin Sacrifice to Reality 