Your Score: The Second Doctor You scored 50% intelligence, 11% compassion, 41% sense of humor, and 17% weirdness! Ah, the comedian! But a *capable* clown. You like to come across as a lovable goof, but in reality you’re a genius who succumbs to occasional absent-mindedness. You know when to cut and run, and you know when you deny authority, no matter how laughable you sound. … Continue reading With thanks to JediSoth
One of the key design precepts of 3e was that roleplaying penalties should not balanced mechanical advantages. I still subscribe to that precept. I’d like to offer something else that I think should be adhered to in 4e design. Discuss as you like: * Characters need to be balanced in combat activities. That is, during a combat they should always have “fun” things to do … Continue reading Balancing Encounter types in D&D
This has turned up in a few Wizards’ blogs recently, such as Stephen Schubert’s: We’ve started searching for another Associate Designer to add to the RPG/Minis design team. We’re looking for an applicant with some amount of understanding and excitement for the D&D miniatures game, so that some of this person’s time can be spent working on that game, as well as mechanics design for … Continue reading Blogging a job
Last Friday, I got to have my first session ever of Star Wars RPG: Saga edition. Cool. Of course, there were a few odd little things about how I ran it. First of all, I’m not actually really familiar with the rules yet. Trying to figure out Saga really gave me a glimpse of how a lot of the world deals with RPGs – they … Continue reading Friday gaming – Star Wars
From Logan Bonner’s blog: I like the new rules for the minis game. The previous version had a lot of things that were unlike the RPG in an annoying way (morale, always attacking the nearest) and a faction system that left us with too many minis of creatures PCs wouldn’t fight (which is a problem for people who buy minis for RPG play, but also … Continue reading More blog info
This is a really big and great article from Mat Smith. Have a look and enjoy! Continue reading September D&D Previews
Skirmishes in the Shadowlands – alternative terrain rules for DDM Desert of Desolation – Preview 1 – Reliving the Long Drought The two images are the Capricious Copper Dragon (CG/CE) and the Fire Archon (CE) Continue reading Wizards site updates
From the discussion on EN World, where I posted this: D&D has always been about having its major roles filled – particularly those of Fighter, Cleric and Magic-User. (If you check the early modules, there’s a lot of talk about balanced parties there). D&D 3E not only wants the four roles to be filled, it provided a bunch of other character options that couldn’t provide … Continue reading More on D&D Character Roles
A couple of new points from the Wizards blogs: Logan Bonner: I’m slotted for D&D Minis work for the next several weeks. This will be interesting. I wasn’t all that familiar with the old game, so working on the new one will probably be easier than trying to learn the old one. I think the list for set 17 looks pretty cool. I worked on … Continue reading Blogging
Andy Collins notes in a post on his forum“I hate the fact that if I want to play a ranger, or a monk, or a binder, or yes, even a bard, that I have to make sure that all the “normal” bases are covered in the party first, because my class isn’t good at the basic functions that every party needs. The game doesn’t have … Continue reading D&D Character Roles
