THAT IS ALL
Things fall apart Everything tends to decay And so it takes a lot To combine atoms there in such a way There exists the lure of that darkness That lurks around the edges of every day So I’m inviting you … Continue reading →
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the Patriarchal Flute
So I was watching a production of Mozart’s the Magic Flute, and I was wondering why we don’t see more magic flutes in the popular culture. Wagner’s Ring cycle tapped into a rich vein of magic-ring related lore which led … Continue reading →
Weekend gaming
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 →
What I like more about 3.5
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 →
Special snowflakes
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 →
Dark Sun Session 8: The Other Tower of Eyes
Okay, so, for startsies, we had some confusion in terms of the timetable: Eunice has joined the game, and she’s got a character all her own. Introducing the character to the group the way the group generally wanted to, i.e., … Continue reading →
Dark Sun Session 7a: the Tower of Eyes
So session six ends with the PCs stumbling out of the Brigadoon-style city of Jin-Yann, and the mist rising, and the city isn’t disappearing, instead it’s very tiny. The ancient magic which dragged the city forward in time has resulted … Continue reading →
D&D Encounters: the Keep on the Borderlands
Last night (when I write this) Donald, Eunice and I got together at Bert’s for the D&D Encounters thing. Carla and Vero were working. D&D Encounters is this quasi-organized play (at least it’s quasi- here) where you have short sessions … Continue reading →
More about Exalted
So I promised a while back I would talk about Exalted a little bit, and explain why I like some of the things I like and why I dislike some of the things I dislike. Then like a month went … Continue reading →
Arkham Horror
(If you aren’t familiar with Arkham Horror, there’s a decent review of it here.) I got Vero Arkham Horror for Christmas of 2009 and we played it a lot in 2010, to the point where we now have all the … Continue reading →