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February 3, 2009

What I’ve been up to. . .

I realize I haven’t been posting a lot of late. I’ve been pretty busy. Angela and I ran our first game session last night, a week earlier than we’d been planning. We had to cram a bit. I think it went well, even though I blanked on the FATE combat variant we were using halfway through the PCs’ first combat....

January 23, 2009

Waiting for Harry

I’ve mentioned that Angela and I are going to be running a campaign now that her D&D game is over. The new game will be a modern-occult-investigation thing. Our inspirations include Hellboy, The X-Files, and Men In Black, among some other things. We have a ton of setting information already worked out. We’ll be using a set of rules heavily...

October 13, 2008

Consequences

As a GM, I don’t particularly like killing players. As a player, I don’t like the idea that my PC could die in a random or meaningless way. When news about 4e was coming out, I found the rumored removal of save or die effects to be heartening. I know this upset many people, but I didn’t really understand why...

September 11, 2008

To the pain!

Combat in RPGs tends to have a serious problem: it ends in death. Sure. Some RPGs have morale rules and such. Usually, these are limited to NPCs and they tend to be more applicable in mass combat than skirmishes or duels. It is duels that I’m concerned with here, duels and practice bouts. Non-lethal combats have a place in many...

September 10, 2008

The Temptation of FATE

Since I read through Spirit of the Century, I want to run everything in FATE. I expect this is largely because it is new and shiny (to me). Perhaps it is heightened by the fact that what FATE seems to do extraordinarily well is the stuff that I feel was left out of 4e D&D. Still, it seems like an...

August 25, 2008

Spirit of the Century

I didn’t pick up much at Gen Con this year. One thing I did buy, though, was a copy of Spirit of the Century. I’d almost bought it last year. In the meantime, I’d heard only good things about it and had developed a potential use for it. So, yeah. I read the book over this weekend. It is awesome....

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