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Hey folks, a little thread necromancy in the wake of GenCon07. I ran three games of DINO-PIRATES at GenCon this year, and it was a total blast. SLAVE QUEEN OF THE RUINED CITY and MONKEY WARRIORS OF THE WALKING SWORD (twice) -- ninjas, pirates, dinosaurs, monkeys and robots, every time. So...

Yup. This is why the Swashbuckling Cards come with a warning on the label:

Another Fine Mess: 8 "Hold hands. It is very important that you hang on during the travel." Nevid shook, paler than Isaac even. He hadn't been wounded but clearly the notion of sorcerous travel terrified him. "I don't want to do this." Arrafin grabbed his hand. "Come on, Nevid. This is...

I decided that Corky was basically a character from a P.G. Wodehouse story. It's most amusing to compare my description of what happened between Corky and Frances and Rodrigo's (we were in the same game). Gerald “Corky” Corkington, British dilettante (and the companion of Daniel Hume.) The year...

That's putting it mildly. This moment is where everything started going completely off the rails. Everything I had planned for Barsoom fell apart right here. At this point in the gaming, the real plan was for the party to get involved in dealing with the Tyrant's Shade. Kani the Cranky...

Another Fine Mess: 7 In the midst of battle, of wild desperate combat, there are occasional moments of lucidity and calmness that startle the one who experiences them. It seemed to Elena that for just a heartbeat, the world slowed down and she had time to look around at the pandemonium that...

There may be a bit of a dinosaur hiatus. But I promise to supply plenty of horrible potential death (and worse) in future updates. Things on Barsoom are about to go very, very twisted. And it's important you remember: NOTHING of what is about to happen is my fault.

Early post this week since tomorrow: GenCon! Two posts in a row without adoring commentary? People, you're making me feel unloved! :(

Another Fine Mess: 6 The sun rose over a ruined fort. Dying soldiers, hung from tall posts, begged weakly for death, their voices a terrible dirge hanging over the smoking ruins. Arrafin seemed to have recovered somewhat from the night's trauma, and chatted quietly with Elena as they rode...

Well, you know. Dinosaurs. Pirates. Ninjas. Plus robots and monkeys, of course. :D Actually at this point much of the setting is poorly detailed at best. Basically it's a fantasy Asia/Polynesia where a bunch of ninja clans have set up shop with assorted pirate kingdoms in order to resist...

I am playing in a Napoleonic horror game (CoC + muskets and Frenchmen! It rules!). Grim Tales works GREAT. The horror rules are different from CoC, of course, but they're solid and fun to play with. We're having a blast with it.

Hey SHARK, good to see you. To answer your question -- yes, absolutely. Change and ongoing development was always a critical part of my Barsoom campaign. For example, a generation before the campaign started, a group of smiths and craftsmen had developed the first firearms in some subject...

Great news. But I meant the porn site. There's fluff with POTENTIAL.

Good idea. Scott?

Not particularly relevant. Of course they are hugely relevant to the industry, but I'm not playing or running any games that they support, and I think the last product of theirs I purchased was the Castle Ravenloft hardcover, which was a gift for my nephew. The only three publishers in the...

That it makes you hot?

Another Fine Mess: 5 Love. Love was all Gral knew. Love for HER. The awakening that had come upon the tiny owl held nothing of surprise for the creature; he was incapable of questioning what had just happened to him. Or even consciously understanding that anything had happened to him. He knew...

If you had to work with them all day, I figure you'd get pretty tired of saying "parasaurolophus," too. They're mostly just called "paras", just as gallimimus is shortened to "gallo". It doesn't REALLY make sense that they would use the Latin species names anyway, but what the heck. It doesn't...

Another Fine Mess: 4 Captain Fintan Garrickson looked up at the uproar near the gate. Patrol returning, he decided, and settled back to his study of the latest Naridic prisoners as they hauled wood into the center of the camp. Two of the younger women were worth his time. He pointed them out...

I have found a significant change to Conviction use I can make is to take all restrictions on its use away when a character is disabled. Normally you're only allowed to use one Conviction point for a given purpose per round, but when a character is disabled they can do whatever they like as long...