Imagine how your feet would feel if you wore the same socks for a whole week. Uncomfortable, right? Imagine keeping your shoes on almost 24 hours a day for most of that week. Think about not only the hygiene issues, but the other health issues, that would arise. Socks provide padding, and prevent blisters. They … Continue reading
The topic of this month’s RPG Blog Carnival, sponsored by Elthos RPG, is “Tricks & Traps”. The truth? I’m not a big fan of traps. The typical outcome is binary. Either the party disarms it and bypasses is, in which case big whoop, or characters end up horribly mangled or dead. Neither of these is … Continue reading
On November 6th, 2011, Berin will be leading a discussion of the book Living Buddha, Living Christ, by Thich Naht Hahn, as part of the Arts, Literature and Faith program at Central United Methodist Church, 201 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106. The program is free and all are welcome. Buddha and Christ, perhaps the … Continue reading
Continuing with this series of remarks on Open Design’s Divine Favor, today I’ll look at Divine Favor: The Inquisitor. This is one of the newer core classes that looks interesting to me, but I’ve neither had the chance to play one or run a game with someone else playing one. New Class Abilities Censures and … Continue reading
It’s a simple fact that human beings are more productive when they’re not stressed to the gills. A little stress is good, it keeps us on task, but too much becomes a distraction, drains energy, and keeps us from achieving much of anything. Duh. We know this already, and I don’t need to point it … Continue reading
Continuing with this series of remarks on Open Design’s Divine Favor, today I’ll look at Divine Favor: The Cleric. Going into this one, I was wondering what new tips and tricks Open Design could possibly come up with. I mean, the cleric class goes all the way back to the first days of fantasy roleplaying … Continue reading
Continuing with this series of remarks on Open Design’s Divine Favor, today I’ll look at Divine Favor: The Oracle. My wife Katie is playing an oracle in our current campaign and having fun with it. I thought it looked rather limited, but I can see the roleplaying potential in it. Oracle really feels like it … Continue reading
It feels like ages ago that I remarked upon Divine Favor: The Druid, but I’m finally getting around to talking about the rest of the series from Open Design. Later this week I’ll take on the Divine Favor supplements for the Oracle, the Cleric, and the Inquisitor, but today I’m here to take a look … Continue reading
Anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant knows what I mean when I say that you can always tell when someone has never worked on food service. They’re the ones who have no sympathy for the harried wait staff, act is if they’re the only customer in the place, and tip poorly. If you’ve … Continue reading
The second part of character generation went incredibly well. It was mainly a discussion of the relationships between characters, and hammering out aspects. People started talking about the game as soon as they arrived, despite the fact that we have social time built into the schedule. I was right on about this group just needing … Continue reading
