I have a bone to pick with you, Mr. Character Sheet. Your attempts to make things “easier” and “accessible” have left me with a constant frustration at our table. You’ve dumbed things down so far as to completely break any attempt to swim against the stream. Customizable? Hardly. You sir, have betrayed the very players… Read More Vry vs The Dungeons & Dragons 5e Character Sheet
UPDATE: While the logic below is sound, a recent comment drew my attention to testing what I posted here to find a number of small but crucial JavaScript syntax errors that may cause the formula to result in always returning 0 (the universal RPG Maker sign that something broke). Here is the corrected formula for… Read More D20 Style Combat in RPG Maker
So a while back I made a post detailing my “Injury System” for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition. It was roughly modeled after the Dragon Age: Origins injuries but without all the unruly book keeping that came with the ups and downs of temporarily changing ability scores. Well, now a new edition of the game… Read More My 5e D&D Injury System
You know sometimes I find myself reminiscing about characters long past, usually holding a glass of brandy and a cigar while staring deeply into a roaring fireplace. Which is really odd because I don’t drink, I don’t smoke aaaand I don’t have a fireplace. But the point still stands. I’ve had so many random RPG characters… Read More My RPG Rogue’s Gallery
One of the first things a role player will try to beat into your brain is to always separate player knowledge and character knowledge. It’s one of the most basic tenets of role playing. Just because you know Ner’zhul became the original Lich King, doesn’t mean Sir Awesomeman the Paladin of Stormwind would. The other night at… Read More Remembering to Play the Part
There’s a bit of a running joke in our D&D group. See in 4th Edition, The Chained God Tharizdun, is kind of portrayed as the long lost evil deity whose name has been lost to the ages because he was imprisoned at the dawn of time. His true name is rarely if ever spoken, and most don’t… Read More Photo Fun: Hipster Cultists
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