Category Archives: Rants

Rants. What more need be said?

Grids Again

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Lizard

Getting Griddy With It So, it’s interesting. The bulk of what this site contains is actually useful content — monsters, spells, items, rules variants, settings, and so on. That stuff gets hardly any comments. Stuff that’s basically useless, namely, my … Continue reading →

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Comments on 5e: The Grid

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Lizard

Again, this is simply a repost of an off-the-cuff rant to a blog entry at WOTC. Read it first, or this replay makes no sense. An interesting fantasy, and I don’t mean the kind with elves. Now, let’s discuss how … Continue reading →

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Beginning: Comments On 5E

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Lizard

Race, Class, Theme, Background Well, since a lot of my writing time (i.e, time when code is compiling, tests are running, etc) is being taken up with occasional rants on the 5e boards, it seems to me that I could … Continue reading →

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Spam spam spam, luvverly spam…

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Lizard

So, I’m using Akismet, which works great. Every day or two, I check my spam box just in case it’s caught something not-spam. This happens less than 1% of the time. The spammers usually post moronic messages in mangled English … Continue reading →

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D&D 5E

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Lizard

Well, as everyone probably knows by now, this site not exactly being known for cutting edge news or steady updates (I’ve got a good excuse for not posting much this past month, namely, I’ve been taking care of my sick … Continue reading →

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Stellar Warriors Update

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Lizard

Stellar Warriors Update I’ve mentioned, several times, my desire to an over-the-top sci-fi game inspired by late 70s/early 80s tropes in both game design and science fiction (and by “science fiction”, I mean, the pulp space opera, movies, and TV … Continue reading →

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Why Tabletop Gaming Will Always Trump MMOs

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Lizard

Tabletop>MMO 4EVR Or, At Least, Until We Get Around To Inventing True AI The concept of an AI DM… true AI, creative and self-aware, is terrifying. It can’t be reasoned with. It can’t be bribed with pizza or boobies. It … Continue reading →

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Making Magic Magical

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Lizard

A common complaint I see on RPG boards is that “magic should be more magical”. The lack of “magicalness” is often cited as a reason to dislike some new version of a game, or otherwise waved around as a generic … Continue reading →

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Back To Not-Basics

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Lizard

Over on RPG.net, I got sucked into a debate instead of doing what I wanted to do this morning, which was write the next part of the Necromican series. So, I decided to share with you some of that debate, … Continue reading →

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Comment from Sean K Reynolds

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Lizard

Yeah, it’s been bloody forever since I updated. Sorry about that; I’m sure both my readers are disappointed. My DM has switched to Pathfinder, which means I am likely to start posting both PF and 4e stuff. Anything for PF … Continue reading →

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