Rules & Revisions Lasers & Lightning Guns Staffs & Saddlebags Last week Two weeks ago, I mildly chided Dave Hargrave for having a few pages containing but a single chart or table, surrounded by a vast sea of emptiness. Across … Continue reading →
The Runes Of Doom, Part V Rules & Resurrection With race and class out of the way, we can now move into the self-actualization of gender identity through an intersectual lens. Or, we could discuss rules for coming back from … Continue reading →
The Runes Of Doom, Part IV Deodanths, Saurigs, and Phraints Takei (You See What I Did There…) Last week, I noted that much of the material was a rehash of existing classes for “most other roleplaying games”, part of Dave … Continue reading →
The Runes Of Doom, Part III Class And Race In Arduin The Culture of Post-Capitalist Hegemony Opens a Space for the Historicization of the Gendered Body. I Got That From A Random Academic Sentence Generator Here we are at Part … Continue reading →
The Runes Of Doom, Part II Politics & Pickpockets Rulers & Rabble And The Black Wind In today’s installment of the Arduin walkthrough, we look primarily at what is now called “downtime” events — that vague limbo between “Well, half … Continue reading →
The Runes Of Doom, Part I Individuality, Reality, And Age Huh. Sounds Kind Of Like The Title Of Some Overpriced Textbook For Some College Course Probably One Of The Ones Where The Answer To Every Question Is ‘Privilege!’ And we … Continue reading →
Welcome To Skull Tower, Part XVII — Special Double-Size End Of Book Edition! Those Who Do Not Study History Are Doomed To Have The GM Lecture Them On It Because He Worked Six Months On This Background And You’re Going … Continue reading →
Welcome To Skull Tower, Part XVI Inns, Holidays, Guilds, And More Like Wind Chill Factor, For Example When I Said These Little Books Were Dense With Information, I Wasn’t Kidding, You Know (Doing This Running Gag With The Headers Mucks … Continue reading →
Welcome To Skull Tower, Part XV Miscellaneous Notes Are Miscellaneous Mu Mesons Are Messy Also, Travel Times Also, Save Vs. Save Vs. Petrification Sorry for missing last week… a lot of chores that had to be done pretty much devoured … Continue reading →
Welcome To Skull Tower, Part XIV More Rules! Magik Rules! Fumble Rules! Weapon Rules! But first… a digression! I was looking through my copy of Greyhawk to see if a particular spell had entered the D&D canon by then, and … Continue reading →