So, news is floating around that Sam Raimi is going to a fantasy syndication of Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series. I have decidedly ambivalent feelings about this. The first book was really great, but it included… mature… themes such as man-boy rape, sado-masochistic torture-magic-sex, and satanic summoning (no joke). That being said, the series […]
Archives for 2008
Mining Tropes for RPG Goodness: You, Bastard!
As promised, after having covered the Overlord trope in all (well at least some of) its RPG glory, I now want to tackle another of my favorite character tropes: The Magnificent Bastard (I’m making no reference whatever to any good friend of mine, honest!) Love him or hate him, there’s a certain type of character […]
Inq. of the Week: Blub Blub Blub?
Though they may not be able to survive in-game, Bards received the most votes for being able to survive into the next edition. I voted for them, but I have to say I’m quite surprised. Druids and Monks were right there too, which probably means that all three of these classes have a unique flavor […]
A geek by any other name…
It’s no secret that a minor theme of this blog is all things geeky… RPGs and Dming being the main subject of my Geeky blogging. Last Friday, Math arrived home and showed his new iPod Touch to my wife Alex. Of course, she went bonkers over it and Math, laughing, came downstrais to join us, […]
DM Chronicles, Session 10: Oh My! Drows are squishy!
This series chronicles our current D&D 3.5 campaign set in my home-grown world with Ptolus added to it. We’ve just started playing a heavily-adapted version of WotC’s Expedition to the Demonwebs pits. As you may recall from last time, I had mixed feelings about the game and I had been going a bit heavily on […]
Review: "Races and Classes" / "Worlds and Monsters"
To all the DMs out there: how many of you have ever made a house rule? How many of you have changed some piece of description because you felt it didn’t make sense or didn’t fit with what you needed? Probably all of you. Wizards of the Coast is undertaking a huge experiment in both […]
Chatty's Out of the Box #000.1
I’m currently fooling around with the idea of creating a Photo webcomic… not seriously, I have no time for that… but the idea is slowly eating whatever’s left of my brain. So I downloaded the Comic Book Creator demo and started playing with it. Here’s what I came up with… I had to go through […]
Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat…
Sooooo, a few days ago Vanir puts up a post about what his Epic Level Heavy-Metal Bard called Bat Loaf did when he was riding the Tarrasque with his pals. My brain broke down somewhere down the line but now that my memory matrix has been reconstructed, it seems that Bat Loaf got his metal […]
Robin's Laws Revisited: Part 2, Player Types and Traits
This post is part of a new series that explores Robin Laws’ seminal work on GMing. This time I tackle the book’s fundamental subject of player types and what they seek in RPGs. Part one can be found here. The second chapter of Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering brings up the subject that knowing […]
Character Genesis: New characters for Pathfinder #1.
A few months ago, I prepared a demo D&D game for PM, his friend Vince, and Franky’s brother Mike, all newbies to RPGs or D&D 3.5 in general. Franky had joined to even out the group and act as the expert on the players side. Our game session, based on Paizo’s excellent Pathfinder #1 adventure, […]
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