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March 7, 2007

I was thinking of waiting until the end of Wand Week for this…

…so that I could give you the Weekend Wand Warrior. This is a silly, three-level prestige class for Jedi wannabes. Enjoy. The material enclosed in the box below is released via the Open Game License. Wand Warrior Hit Die: d8 Requirements: To qualify to become a wand warrior, a character must fulfill all the following criteria. Skills:Use Magic Device 5...

March 6, 2007

Wand Week, Day Deux

Today, you get two fundamental feats for wand wielders. The material enclosed in the box below is released via the Open Game License. Wand Focus [General]Benefit: Add +1 to the Difficulty Class for all saving throws against spells cast from wands. Wand Mastery [General]Prerequisites: Use Magic Device 1 rankBenefit: You may take 10 on Use Magic Device checks made to...

March 5, 2007

Wand Week

This week is Wand Week! Why? I don’t know, but I feel all alliterative. Today we get two spells that work with wands. The material enclosed in the box below is released via the Open Game License. Charge WandTransmutationLevel: Sorc/Wiz 3Components: S,F, special (see below)Casting Time: 1 standard actionRange: TouchTarget: One wandDuration: 10 min/levelSaving Throw: Will negates (harmless, object)Spell Resistance:...

March 2, 2007

Magic systems, revisited

I’ve been thinking a lot about different magical systems in RPGs. I don’t particularly care for the Vancian fire-and-forget thing. I’m also not a huge fan of uses per day. I don’t have an issue with there being limits on magic use, but an absolute and regular limit seems very artificial to me. Though some people like it, I think...

January 23, 2007

Dumb Luck

Who is it that decided that a character in an RPG who is extraordinarily lucky should have that luck modeled by re-rolling dice? I know that White Wolf did this – both in their World of Darkness games (in which Luck was a Merit) and in Aberrant (in which it was a power). I am fairly certain that I saw...

January 11, 2007

Game Bloat

I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with White Wolf’s Storyteller system and its variants over the last year or so, but I find that I am still most annoyed with my original pet peeve with them – I call it skill bloat. In the Storyteller system, characters have a number of skills that range from 0 to 5 points. At character creation,...

January 10, 2007

Fun without playing the game

More thoughts inspired by Iron Gauntlets combat… So, IG combat involves a tactical resource management minigame. Sometimes, as mentioned in my last post, I approve of tactical minigames in combat. Thinking about it, though, I believe they should be somewhat optional. If I’m playing a character who is a competent warrior, my skill in combat shouldn’t be wholly dependent on...

January 9, 2007

Do I know what I want?

I keep thinking about the system in Iron Gauntlets. One of the things that I love in resolution systems is stuff akin to IG’s overkill mechanic: if more dice come up successes than you need to succeed at a task, the extra dice represent overkill. I like it when systems allow this overkill (or its analogue) to be used flexibly....

January 8, 2007

Run Club, Episode I

Yesterday was the first installation of the C-U Run Club. It had mixed results. Socially, it was a success. Game-wise, not so much. Dave ran Iron Gauntlets, a fantasy rpg that he’d never run, but was planning on running at Winter War, an upcoming local con. After yesterday, he changed his mind. Strictly speaking, I don’t think that Iron Gauntlets...

December 26, 2006

House rules for a campaign

For some reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about my Sigil Hardboiled campaign idea lately. Will I run it? Maybe, some day. I haven’t had much luck running games of late. Anyway, I was thinking about the house rules I’d use if I did run it, and thought that the thought-process I went through might be interesting. First, I go...

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