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April 17, 2006

d20 Tweaking: Hacking Classes

So, in the game I am about to begin running, I have four players. One of them had a solid concept. He was toying with playing a Ranger, but didn’t see his character as a spellcaster (much less a divine spellcaster). I showed him the Scout class. He was hooked. Another wanted to play a tinker-type character with some spellcasting....

March 3, 2006

Neitherworld: Path Mechanics Take I

I am going to engage in a bit of stream of consciousness here. I have some ideas rumbling around in my head about how to use the journeys of an Unborn down the DreamPaths as a locus of the game’s mechanics, and I need to have them written down somewhere. Working assumptions: All players are playing a single Unborn. Each...

February 21, 2006

Use the cool

No, I am not talking about Fonzie again. I’ve been thinking about some of the things that I find frustrating in RPGs, and I’ve noticed some patterns. In D&D, there are a lot of cool options – feats, prestige classes, races, spells, and things like that – but in any given game, you are likely to only use a small...

February 7, 2006

D20 tweaking: Part I

I enjoy playing with D20/OGL rules. They make an interesting toolset, and D20 is as close to an object-oriented game system as I think we have come. On the other hand, to paraphrase something I read recently, I find the D20 rules-tweaking potential to be more fun than the actual gameplay. That isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy playing...

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d20 Tweaking: Hacking Classes

Neitherworld: Path Mechanics Take I

Use the cool

D20 tweaking: Part I