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Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Dworkin the Barimen, and my Tinfoil Unicorn Hat

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 Weird Amber DRPG thing, well, actually a weird Amber novel thing, that I figured out today, and have never seen posted anywhere.  ** SPOILE...
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Sunday, October 14, 2018

I buried the lead in a tangent.

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Earlier today, I wrote a lengthy rant about 7th Sea and why I chose to reduce the damage of duelists instead of increasing the damage of non...
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Putting A Finer Point On The Sword

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A couple days ago I posted a set of house-ruled Dueling Maneuvers for 7th Sea 2nd Edition , which dramatically reduced the amount of damage ...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

A Tale Of Two Forums

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"A couple years ago, White Wolf released this RPG called Scion. I started a campaign the first chance I got. At first, I loved it, but...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Deputize Yourself

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The Trail of Cthulhu RPG has a two-page spread of advice for players, and my favorite bits are: "the best way to fail is to become defe...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

To Sandbox, Or Not To Sandbox

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A sandbox campaign is one where the whole world is realized, and the players can go anywhere and follow whatever paths or play style motivat...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Feast or Famine

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In December and January, I was essentially campaignless, and that's pretty unusual for me. My Scion game had wrapped up late last year, ...
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Saturday, February 7, 2009

LARPsploding

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A couple of buddies of mine are playing in a Vampire LARP here in town, and last night it was one of many topics of conversation. They revea...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Skill Challenges

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I found an interesting post (and comment thread) at Tales of the Rambling Bumblers , concerning Skill Challenges in 4th Ed D&D. If you...
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Monday, December 1, 2008

1 Hit = 1 Wound

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One area of Savage Worlds has consistently bugged me: that being Damage. Here's why: Most of the game is really fast and simple, and pra...
Monday, October 27, 2008

7 +/- 2; no more than 3x if it's magical

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Here's a link to a cool blogpost at Delta's D&D Hotspot about the limitations to how our minds process information, and how tho...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

compliance with stupid laws

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White Wolf has posted new rules for fan sites. As such, in order to keep posting content here about my Scion campaign, I'll need to pro...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Experience and Training Times

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I posted the following to the Scion Forums today. It was in response to someone saying that the "Speed Reader" knack should have a...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Underlying Assumptions

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Interesting forum-conversation with Jesse Heinig of White Wolf. Jesse had expressed that when writing the new powers for the Scion Companio...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wonky vs Broken

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Nerd aside: That title kinda sounds like a lawsuit, doesn't it? Like Mr Wonky is suing The Broken Corporation... Wonkiness isn't ...
Friday, June 6, 2008

Analyzing Movies

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This started over at repeated expletives. I was blabbing about classic Bond films (and how they hadn't stood the test of time so well) a...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

A, B, and/or C

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In my ideal world, I'd have 3 different RPG groups every week, or at least biweekly. (They need better names than what follows, but at ...
Thursday, May 8, 2008

Elegance and the Heart of RPGs

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Got an email today from an old friend I hadn't talked to in ages. He recommended I look at Primetime Adventures and FATE (the later of ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Extended Roll Nightmare

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*: That raises a whole other issue, that of Extended Rolls. Some RPGs are too vague. There's no answer offered to questions like "...
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Sunday, February 17, 2008

Legend, Willpower, Avatar, and Titan

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Trying to post something at the Scion Forum today, I nearly ran afoul of trying to distinguish temporary Legend points from permanent Legen...
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