Godslaying (Part 1)
In the month of March (before it was called by that name), the Greeks celebrated Anthesteria. During Anthesteria, the dead were believed to cross over into our world and traffic...
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Godslaying
Wands, Redux
All wands and staves have a number of charges, which is rolled when a character takes possession of the item. Typically, a wand has 1-8 charges and a staff has 1-12 charges. Discharged wands...
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Wands!
(From the B/X hacks department)I am very fond of Moldvay B/X, as well as its latecomer descendant ACKS. What I don't like so much is the old-school way D&D handled wands and staves. The ones with...
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Spells for The One Ring
I know what you're thinking! "Geez, man, this has already been tried by like a dozen people and it always kind of sucks." Yeah. Well, here we go again.
First off, let's clear up this bit of...
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Broken Lance
Over on the Plus, an gaming friend posted some cool-looking, vaguely post-apocalyptical military art. It immediately made me think "Twilight:2000 with mechs."
(Artist...
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Character Pages from The 53
I recently got wildly inspired to work on a spy game, principally because I listened to Adele's "Skyfall." This game, tentatively called The 53, is an RPG that tries to recreate the feel of the James...
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Marks on Substrate
Sayla knew that the idea of noncorporeality, of bits sans grit, bodiless data, was an illusion, the construct of a mind that was itself a construct. The divide between simulation and reality was...
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