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I saved the timeline!
One of the other participants in the game jam I joined produced a Game Boy adventure called OuttaTime. You can try it yourself in your browser here: https://jhample.itch.io/outta-time.It’s a short...
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Draft Two-Step Status rules
Hey, we're trying to remove a saving throw penalty in here!The basic deal here is that the first status of each pair has no direct mechanical effect. Gaining that status is a warning to the player that...
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So this guy came to me in a dream last night.Professor PowerThaddeus Bauman, a.k.a. the Amazing ThaddeusFighting: Good (10)Agility: Good (10)Strength: Good (10)Endurance: Excellent (20)Reason:...
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more settings should do this
N. Robin Crossby's Hârn setting included a beautiful poster-sized hexmap that allowed for all the hexcrawlery an adventurer's heart could desire. Here's a thumbnail of the map:Here's a close-up of one...
View ArticleI don't need DriveThru. Does DriveThru need me?
Below is the message I just sent to DriveThruRPG via their contact page: https://help.drivethrurpg.com/hc/en-us/requests/new. I encourage you to do the same. Feel free to cut and paste from my letter...
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Engines of Destruction
So, I'm back on my BattleTech bullshit. The construction rules in the original BattleTech rulebook included this handy chart.Multiply the tonnage of your mech by its walking speed in movement points....
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Fight On! is back, baby!
I may be feeling grumpy about DriveThru lately, but you need to know that a new issue of Fight On!, the OSR fanzine, is out! Get it here. Back in the two thousand aughts Fight On! was one of my...
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FYI thydungeongal
As I get older and grumpier the tumblers is the only social media site I can stand to be on for any length of time. Tumblr has its problems (terrible interface, TERFy moderation, among other things)...
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my favorite thing from MERP 2E
MERP (Middle-Earth Role Playing) is one of my favorite fantasy rpgs that sits outside the "fully compatible with D&D" space. Don't get me wrong, you can introduce a MERP PC into a D&D game and...
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Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows unleash BABS!
Garth Ennis sends up fantasy? Sounds like fun.
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a strange, strange journey
So this here is a Destroid Tomahawk. Destroids are land-based mecha used by UN forces to fight alien invaders in the anime Macross, which was release in the United States as part of Robotech.This is...
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Hârn Orcs are Wee Rascals
So I've been revisiting N. Robin Crossby's Hârn setting, a cool sorta low-magic medieval world that been around since the 80's. Hârn has its own system, HârnMaster, but no mechanics appear in the...
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I assumed they ate grass or herbs or something like that.
from "Ten Days in the Arena of Khazan" by Ken St. Andre, Different Worlds #7
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Check out this fashionable fellow.
I was looking at the Tunnels & Trolls stuff on the ebays and stumbled across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it was painted candy apple red. This guy was part of...
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Fight On! number 16 is out.
The new issue of Fight On! has been out for a bit. You can get copies via drivethru or lulu. I haven't finished reading my copy, but I'd like to recommend "21 Lessons Learned AfterRunning 100 Sessions"...
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