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Dreamers and Dicepools: May 2014
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Being a sporadically updated RPG design blog, focusing primarily on game mechanics. Thursday, 22 May 2014. HSGTW Part II: More Spell Mechanics. So last post I blatantly ripped off Shimmin's core dice mechanic, and applied it to a game that I was tentatively naming "How Sorcerers Get that Way" after a sidebar in the Call of Cthulhu. In this post, I wanted to carry on ripping him off. A core component of Shimmin's original system was the idea of a Miscast. Which allowed them to ignore sixes. Miscasts, in o...
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Dreamers and Dicepools: March 2013
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Being a sporadically updated RPG design blog, focusing primarily on game mechanics. Thursday, 14 March 2013. Monitors and Mechanics (Part 2). Okay, so Shim has written his next post on Monitors. And is apparently waiting for my input mechanics-wise (no pressure, right guys? The second thing I wanted to look at was Attribute-Skill heirarchies, their advantages and disadvantages. The Age of Stat Skill. Particularly since Ars Magica. Shimmin's stated reasons for picking Stat Skill were:. I thought I'd have ...
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Dreamers and Dicepools: Worldbuilding Thoughts
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Being a sporadically updated RPG design blog, focusing primarily on game mechanics. Monday, 18 August 2014. So I've been poking around with D&D Fifth Edition and this naturally led to me brainstorming ideas for settings. This led to several false starts, and in particular it led to me trying several options for where to begin. The problem with this is that it often leads to a world that looks a bit odd, particularly if you want a relatively flexible D&D setting that isn't dungeonpunk out the wazoo. W...
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Dreamers and Dicepools: October 2014
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Being a sporadically updated RPG design blog, focusing primarily on game mechanics. Friday, 3 October 2014. Yet More About Numenera. This is a long post about Shimmin's reaction. So this is kind of a reaction to that, so I'm going to be running through his counterpoints in order. I'm also - weirdly - going to be listening to the original podcast at the same time, so this might get a bit incoherent. Having said that, I do. Actually, I don't need to wonder, really, because I can do the maths here:. This is...
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July 2014 – The Salisbury Chronicle
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Translations of selected chapters from Middle English. July 28, 2014. Twentieth Chapter: Fortuituous Timing (501 AD). As it transpired, the alliance of Salisbury, Silchester, Oxford and Camelot chose the perfect time to invade Wessex, for even as their forces entered King Cerdic’s realm the south coast of Wessex was assaulted by King Port, a Saxon corsair who swiftly established an encampment named Portsmouth and whose attempts at expansion diverted the attention of most of Cerdic’s forces. July 8, 2014.
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Arthur – The Salisbury Chronicle
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Translations of selected chapters from Middle English. March 18, 2016. Forty-Third Chapter: The Bargain of Hubert (526 AD). Disaster struck, however, when Sir Hubert happened to be making love to the lady of one manor when her lord returned unexpectedly. Fighting Hubert, he did the seducer a grevious wound, and when Hubert swooned further mutilated him to, as the. Delicately puts it, “destroy a threat to the virtue of France”. Hubert was saved by his retainers, but at a grevious cost. January 14, 2016.
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The Salisbury Chronicle – Page 2 – Translations of selected chapters from Middle English.
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Translations of selected chapters from Middle English. August 7, 2015. Thirty-Sixth Chapter: Arthur Plans Revenge (517 AD). The death of Ygraine sees the kingdoms of the North, who all loved her, unite behind Arthur in a common desire for bloody revenge. In 517 AD the requiem mass for Ygraine in Carlisle provides the centrepiece of a whirlwind of planning and intrigues, as Arthur prepared for a decisive battle against Aelle of Sussex, who had been declared Bretwalda and High King of Angle-Land. The knigh...
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August 2014 – The Salisbury Chronicle
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Translations of selected chapters from Middle English. August 13, 2014. Twenty-First Chapter: The Humbling of Cerdic (502 AD). Careful scouting and well-chosen raids on Cerdic’s supply lines revealed a secret negotiation between Cerdic and King Aelle of Sussex; Aelle had agreed to provide troops for an ambush on the British and Portsmouth forces, in return for Wessex swearing fealty once either Port was driven into the sea or the Britons led by Salisbury were sent packing. Blogging About the Blog.
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February 2015 – The Salisbury Chronicle
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Translations of selected chapters from Middle English. February 11, 2015. Thirty-first and Thirty-second Chapter: Arthur’s Wedding and the Riotous Feast (514 AD). Then was a grand gift-giving, when all saw the love the subjects had for their King reflected in the gifts he received and his love for them in the gifts he gave in return. Sir Aden gave Arthur a fine set of falconry gear, and for this was made Master of the Royal Aviary. Lord Jacques gave a massive crucifix for the roof of Camelot Cathedral, b...
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June 2014 – The Salisbury Chronicle
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Translations of selected chapters from Middle English. June 17, 2014. Seventeenth Chapter: Passage to Sauvage (499 AD). Pertiones had noted that the Rollright Stones were a legendary entrance to the forest, and arriving there the party entered a narrow trail that seemed more suited to foxes and badgers than knights and horses, yet which widened out after a time. Soon the knights discovered a vast clearing, in which County Tribuit – an entire County! Mindful of this tale, the knights approached the castle...
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