February 2012
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WYRED Directional Survey
For the peeps who’ve been following my little cyberpunk rpg project, “WYRED”, could y’all be a doll and fill out this quick survey? Your feedback will help decide on what to work on next.
WYRED Directional Survey
January 2012
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Babbling on LL's "AEC", Descending AC, and other...
Here’s my thing: When it comes to retroclones, I mostly only keep tabs on them for when someone is looking for a particular flavor of an out-of-print edition of D&D. Most of the time I point peeps between either Labyrinth Lord or Dark Dungeons; the latter because it’s a clone of my personal favorite iteration (the Rules Cyclopedia.)
That said I hardly ever play with them,...
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Obligatory Thoughts on D&D 5e
I posted over at Loremaster.Org some initial feelings about “D&D Next” being announced.
It’s still too early to comment anything really, but, I can say I’m finding this a time to retire 4th Edition for me. This isn’t a decision out of spite; just, I don’t really have any games of it going on or planned for the near future. I’m looking forward to...
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Gaming Resolutions for 2012
2011 was an interesting year in gaming for me. I played a LOT more old-school D&D, ran the D&D Encounters program for our new local game shop, have become a tablet-PDF junkie, and have managed to hack together a cyberpunk RPG that I’m satisfied with.
Granted, I also took a summer Hiatus this year, from game blogging and playing. I almost killed the blog completely (and then some...
December 2011
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WYRED Errata
I’ve updated WYRED to 1.01, with the following fixes (nothing major):
->Tough As Nails perk should have 2 Soak, not 3.
->Status perk should have listed a difficulty of 9, not 13.
->Hand Razors augment should have a damage of 2, not 3.
->Changed term “Defense” to “Soak” on Armor table to save confusion.
->Renamed document files to “Complete Rulebook”, “Pocket Book 1 - Core” and...
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WYRED - Leaner, Meaner Edition
GET THE BAD BOY HERE. (2 MB Zip file) Contains “complete” core rulebook, two pocketmod books, a character sheet and a pocket“character folio.”
This is probably the most drastic iteration of WYRED written so far. My gaming group loves it, so I’m curious how it flies with the online crowd. I completely blame Stuart Robertson and his game Weird West for...
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Something I Learned from PocketMod....
So this week, I had a crazy idea: Could I cram WYRED into an 8-page PocketMod?
Short answer to that question: No.
But what I did pull off was condensing WYRED down to an 8-page document, including the character sheet. Only reason it wasn’t PocketMod friendly was I suck at layout/design theory, so the fonts came out teeny-tiny. This is also related to my hubris, as I hardly omitted or left...
November 2011
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Anonymous asked: Hello! I red you made a "gamma-world like" version of D&D classes but i cannot find it :| Is it public? Can i have it? where it is? XD
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Weird West Play Report
Despite fighting a sore throat and stuffy sinuses, I managed to run a full gaming session of Weird West last night for my friends. Character creation was dirty quick, even with the little bits I added, and everyone was comfortable hopping into the game.
Warning: Blatant References to Gaming and Pop Culture to Follow.
The party is an already established group of freakish heroes for the town of...
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Key Me In: More Experiences with Nook Color
Felt obliged to do a little bit of a followup to my Nook Color Review for RPG Nerds.
First off, let me state I’ve taken the plunge and instead of booting Cyanogenmod 7 completely from my SDCard, I’m now running a fully rooted Nook Color. The performance increase has been noticeable, but honestly nothing to write home about. The only major difference to me now is being able to use...
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Weird West: A Quick and Dirty Review
Tonight I decided to take the plunge and make the hefty investment of 100 US Cents ($1.00) to have a look at the Weird West Basic Role-Playing Rulebook put out by Stuart Robertson of Robertson Games.
The game totes itself as (from the DriveThruRPG description) “The streamlined and fast playing adventure roleplaying game for weird western worlds of cowboys, kung-fu, magic and otherworldly...
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October 2011
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Breaking "Encounters"
So last week, we took a vote at our D&D Encounters night: It was decided that while we enjoyed the game so far, that all of us were there to play D&D and didn’t really care about the incentive rewards (even though they are pretty cool.) Our Wednesday Night crowd is kind of a double edged sword…..we have just enough people involved that we can usually keep one table going; but...
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WYRED Rough Drafts 5 & 6
WYRED, my cyberpunk rpg based off the WYRM rules found in games like Warrior, Rogue & Mage and Resolute, Adventurer & Genius, has just released its 5th AND 6th rough draft copies.
The 5th Draft is the “final” version of the original d6-based rules. The 6th Draft is the first version of our d12-based mechanic. It’s still essentially the same game, but the number scale...
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Review of "Neverwinter Campaign Setting"
Originally posted on Loremaster.Org
I’m going to be up front about this: I was never really big into the Forgotten Realms… ….I think I developed an aversion after a while because it became so popular, and so much was put out for it, it became daunting to even consider running it. To me it would be like trying to run Star Wars without ever seeing the movies.
…Last week, a...
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Pull the Pin, Throw Blindly.
Here it is, another reincarnation of The Chaos Grenade. I’ve been using this blog title since Feb of 2009; mostly for RPG related works. Earlier this year, I took a bit of a gamer hiatus and then returned feeling much better. Unfortunately, when I returned I found my website was the victim of a nasty vulnerability and hacker attack, which pretty much set up a bunch of nastiness that I...