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a minor Dragon magazine mystery
So this morning I was flipping through Dragon issue #47 (March '81), as I wanted to take a gander at David Cook's Crimefighters, a small pulp hero RPG printed in its entirety in that issue. Anyhoo, I...
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Space, as Douglas Adams used to say, is big.
Traveller is a pretty funky little system for creating sci-fi universes, but, like any game, it has its limits. For one thing, the excellent mapping system designs useful game environs without much...
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I've mapped with squares and I've mapped with hexes...
...and one time I ever used polar coordinate graph paper to do a faux non-euclidean dungeon level, but it never, ever considered mapping in irregular pentagons:Holocaustic Dungeons is a dubiously-named...
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more fun with Traveller mapping
Okay, here I go again on this space hexagon nonsense. Let's start with a typical Traveller subsector like this:Let us assume, for purposes of this exercise, that those 43 white dots represent all the...
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From Aberdeen to Paris: Mapping the British gaming advertisers circa 1985
So here's something I've wanted to try for years. I logged the names and addresses of all the ads in White Dwarf issue #68 (September 1985), excluding the small ads (i.e. the classifieds). I only know...
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That explains quite a bit, actually.
Here's the last section of the rules clarifications used in the D&D tournament for Gen Con IX:Edit to add: The more I think about it, the more "the gods are back from their eons-long vacation"...
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3 bold adventurers, 3 dead adventurers
I was feeling some anxiety this morning (the plague being in the land gets to me sometimes) so I decided to distract myself with a couple old Tunnels & Trolls solo adventurers. The Mighty Hugo, a...
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Be Wary of Wizards
So I'm still putzing around with Tunnels & Trolls solitaire adventures. There's a lot of them. At least 25 full-length solitaire modules were published by Flying Buffalo back in the day, as well as...
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An Answer to a Question No One Asked
 What is going on under wizards' robes?Zardeth and Ogeode are the wizards from the Crystar toy/comic line. Under their robes you find pants with belts and matching knee-high boots.Very classy....
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You GUYS!
Under the headgear options Hero Forge has an option for a loop that turns any figure into a pendant or Christmas ornament!Jesus Frog died for your amphibious sins.
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Q: What color is a tirapheg?
So I've been re-reading the Fiend Folio, as I am wont to do from time to time. And once again I was struck by how in the old monster write-ups you can easily tell whether the monster creator regularly...
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This is the kind of thing I do on Saturday mornings.
I turn an old piece of Battlestar Galactic concept art into an album cover.Edit to add:Â
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You're probably doing ogres wrong.
Thanks to the Nameless Jedi for inspiring this post. Let's begin with a simple thought exercise.Allow me to intriduce you to Orlando the Ogre. Formally, he's Orlando Pedgewick Ogremoore the Third, of...
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Also, his royal guard were all paladins but that doesn't seem relevant to the...
The Leprechaun King carousing with a human friend.I had a dream the other night that there was a Leprechaun King named Zap! Yes, his name had an exclamation mark at the end. Consider the notion that...
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steal this loot
Oh, no. We just had this discussion.On the facebook noted coolguy Christian Conkle asked for ideas as to what could be found in the loot sack of a post-apocalyptic ogre. I just wanted to save my...
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Die and die again
As I mentioned back in January, the main gaming I've been doing over the last year has been Tunnels & Trolls solos. Sitting around a table with folks has felt like a health hazard, while my entire...
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here's a neat chart
Villains and Vigilantes was one of the great superhero RPGs from the period before the release of official Marvel and DC games in '84 and '85 respectively. Written by Jack Herman and Jeff Dee and...
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never memorize fireball again
I was googling something unrelated and stumbled across this nice Carjacked Seraphim post called Spontaneous Wizard Magic. Spontaneous clerical casting was introduced in 3E, if I recall correctly. The...
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Hail Britannia! Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Britannia is one of my favorite 4-player board games. The map is the British Isles. One game covers the Romans to the Normans, with each turn playing out the movements of whole peoples into and out of...
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