For this month, I was going to spill some ink about earning XP for finding treasure. I had nearly 2,000 words in place, all ready to go. Something else, however, had been stomping around in my little attic and making so much noise, I felt compelled to go upstairs to find out what it was. So here we go. The post that I did not intend to write…
When I think back to the best times I had running adventures, I feel like they were great not because the adventure was fantastic (although in some cases, they were), but were great because of how we filled in the gaps…
When is too much of a good thing too much?
I’ve not made a secret my disdain for skills in d20-based games. They always feel tacked on, a sop offered to players who need more numbers to truly realize the character they want to play. Rather than just say, “My dude spent a lot of time in the king’s court” and let the GM interpret what this means, most players feel it’s important to have mechanics that represent capabilities beyond the core task resolution system. Today, I want to talk about why I feel this approach is bad for d20 games and probably make you super upset as a result. But I have a solution and it comes at the end…
Please welcome Robert J. Schwalb and his first article at Stuffer Shack. He’s an established RPG game designer and novelist with a slew of credits to his name, and in this article he talks about that cool thing that makes monsters cooler…