On Sunday Vero and I had some people over — Doug and Eunice (Eunice? Is that right? I forget why I don’t use people’s actual first names, I think it was something about respecting privacy) along with, I’m just going … Continue reading →
From the Book of Ti-Orgoat, Chapter Fifty-Six, Verse One Beginning: 1. In the days of yore when men strode unchallenged through the green hills of the Diamond Isle and the petty wonders of rune and witch spread like ticks across … Continue reading →
Hel-Morrid’s word was the word of Time, the rune that connects each moment with each moment following, that change can occur and one thing may move past another. For the word of Motion is not the word of Time, but … Continue reading →
Prodded by Vero, who pointed out that she hasn’t heard me say anything nice about Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 since around 2005. 1) The system isn’t terrible. I mean the basic resolution system, where you roll a d20 and add … Continue reading →
Habadad today is nothing. A single small island, barely half the size of the New Provinces and only twice as interesting. It’s significant only as a Unified Front Naval waystation for the ships of the line out in that quarter … Continue reading →
1) I don’t like clerics. I don’t like how they don’t fit any particular fantasy niche, with their armor and their weapons and their healing and their turning undead and their magic spells, I mean, it’s a grab bag. It’s … Continue reading →
There was at some point a discussion going on RPGnet about PC types, and “special snowflakes.” Generally they were presented as a negative. A “special snowflake” PC, probably this is self-evident, is a PC who is for some reason unique … Continue reading →
OG-OGOG: In the House of Reason there are many doors — ZAM: In the House of Og-Ogog there are many whores! OG-OGOG: I beg you pray listen to my lecture! ZIM: He begs us pray enrich his prefecture! OG-OGOG: This … Continue reading →
“We have been born into difficult times. This is a transition, a liminal period between eons of peace. The old way, the way of superstition, violence, poverty, and misery, is over. The new way, the way of reason, peace, wealth, … Continue reading →
People think in binary. Black and white. Ten-Are-Two and Not-Ten-Are-Two. Nature-magic and the Dark. Good and evil. Us and Them. Every so often… not in every class, but more than a few, each decade… every so often, I encounter a … Continue reading →
