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January 20, 2010

Haiti: How To Help

I know that I’m not the only one who has watched the devastation in Haiti, shellshocked… and not knowing what to do. My current financial situation hasn’t really allowed me to make the donations that I’d like to make. What I can do, however, is encourage others to help. If you are still looking for a way to do something,...

July 24, 2009

The Ennie Awards

I voted. Did you? I’m not going to tell you who to vote for, but I will mention that Hellas: Worlds of Sun and Stone is up for both the Interior Art and Best Production Values. A friend of mine is one of the two artists who worked on the book, so I might be biased when I say that...

March 23, 2009

OPEN GAME TABLE: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs

The RPG Blog Anthology is now available. I’d say it was a long time coming, but Jonathon over at The Core Mechanic put it together in what seems like a surprisingly short time given the work of wrangling so many contributers. Open Game Table is truly a “Best of” the RPG blogging community. An open call went out across many...

November 3, 2008

Fallout 3 and thoughts on edition change

I picked up a copy of Fallout 3 yesterday. This is going to really cut into my productivity. When I heard that the developers had changed, I was a little worried that the tone of the game wouldn’t be quite the same under the new team. The 50s-style post-apocalyptic future that wasn’t is what really appealed to me in the...

September 15, 2008

Whose game is it, anyway?

About a week ago, Angela picked up Spore. I’ve tinkered around with it. The character modeling and such is really cool. That’s not what I want to focus on, though. If you look at the Amazon link (above), you’ll note that Spore has a lousy rating. It isn’t because the game is bad (although parts of it seem very oversimplified),...

June 28, 2008

4e: GSL weirdness

The Game System License has a what appears to be a big hole in it. Certain monsters, such as the Beholder and the Displacer Beast, (and possibly other non-monster things) are excluded from the SRD. Before 4e, these things were considered Product Identity (despite the fact that D&D’s claim on the displacer beast is tenuous) and were not included in...

June 18, 2008

4e: GSL

So, Wizards released the GSL. I’m not sure I see why anyone would use it. I haven’t read through it in detail, but it doesn’t seem to actually grant any worthwhile rights. The OGL was arguably worthwhile. You agreed to abide by WotC’s restrictions. In return, you got to use a whole lot of content more-or-less as you wish. The...

June 6, 2008

4e: Dungeon, Dragon

On the plus side, the magazines are looking decent. OK, one of the big Dragon articles focuses on Yeenoghu, of whom I’m not a fan. I don’t really like D&D’s tendency to focus on fiends in general, and I prefer my gnolls more morally ambiguous than demon-worshipers. Still, that’s a personal preference. The article seemed like is pretty good, quality-wise.

May 2, 2008

Licensing issues

Wizards just posted a Game System License FAQ. I’m not keen on them abandoning the OGL, though this allays a few of my fears. I’m still worried about just how restrictive these licenses will be, though. Will non-fantasy games need to refer to the PHB for character creation rules? If so, that will be a problem.

September 12, 2007

Bad Press

Lore Sjöberg thinks he’s funny. He hasn’t been. Not since the Brunching Shuttlecocks… and I suspect that Brunching may have been funny despite him. I sometimes find myself reading his column in Wired – mostly because I follow a link and didn’t realize it would end up on his column. I find that I am invariably sorry I did so....

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