Search results

Make stuff up. Figure out what sucks. Do less of the stuff that sucks. Repeat.

Another Fine Mess: 3 "The truth is, my friends, that only my brother Achmed knows where the gold is." Tariq beamed around at his guests as the setting sun emblazoned his tent. Outside, riding gallos rasped at each other, rattling their hobbles as they shifted, restless and surly. Some group of...

My only Friday game finishes up at 5. I'm available for help -- whatever needs doing, as long it requires only minimal physical dexterity and no taste whatsoever.

Title: Barsoom Tales II: Romance, Revolution and BLOODY REVENGE! Author: Barsoomcore Number of Threads: 1 Type: Swashbuckling Political Games and Earth-Shattering Horror. And Accountants. System: D&D 3.5e With Extra Crispy Wings Setting: Barsoom Started: July 2007 Status: In Progress: to...

Another Fine Mess: 2 In Nevid's mind, ten thousand doomed souls wailed. Smoke and flame rose, taller than city towers, taller than the mountains in the distance, stretching up to reach the clouds, swirling upwards in a great pillar of horror and destruction. The city tore itself into scraps...

I ran my first Dino-Pirates of Ninja Island campaign in True20 and LOVED it. The pulpy, swashbuckling feel came out in spades. In my experience, a big part of a successful True20 game is not sweating the details too much. Because the combat round is not as granular as d20 (no multiple attacks...

And I'm out. Sorry, fu, it's just too crazy on the scheduling for me.

I've come to consider the "Quote" button sufficiently sinister for my purposes.

Hey, JPL, good to see you. Wow, was that TWO trains head-on? One of them looks like it was a passenger train, don't you think? And what's that say on the side of the other train? "Flammable"? "Contents Under Pressure"? "Keep Away From Small Children"? You know, I'm just going to step back a...

:\ :\ :\

The Internet is vast and wide.

Yes. That's exactly right. The primary advantage for me is prep time. I find generating high-level opponents for my d20 games VERY time-consuming. If I need to put together a cool 10th-level sorcerer-type of character, it can easily take me hours of prep time, selecting spells and magic items...

Dungeon 102/Polyhedron 161 had a Pulp d20 with advanced classes, Backgrounds, new feats and skills and lots of fun. It also included a fictional American city full of adventure ideas. It was pretty cool.

The misconception that True20 is a rules-light system is a pernicious one. It is most definitely NOT rules-light. What True20 does is shift much of the complexity -- in the case of damage for example, by requiring a more complex sheet for record-keeping. In the case of magic, the complexity...

Another Fine Mess: 1 Arrafin held her breath. Her huge round eyes widened even more than usual as she concentrated. She knew she had to relax, to open some non-existent portal inside herself. She didn't know exactly what would happen, but she'd prepared. She'd studied. She'd read the...

Big trouble. Little heroes. Welcome to Barsoom. It's not my style to offer long-winded introductions to a story, but for those of you who can't bring yourselves to read Season One of Barsoom, here's a quick round-up of pertinent facts. If you're joining us for the first time, that's fine; I'm...

Done.

Anyone who calls a professional like Moore -- who did SO MUCH great work for our hobby, contributed so much imagination and wit and thoughfulness to my own life, and who politely responds to emails from TOTAL STRANGERS -- a jerk is so far off the map of any kind of NORMAL human interaction that...

Jose for me! AND I vote that we should each bring a bottle of our namesake.

Initial post updated. Somebody drag Nareau out of the bar and tell him.