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September | 2014 | Skald's Forge
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Legend of Drizzt Audiobook. September 30, 2014. October 1, 2014. I’m voting Cthulhu anyway. I listened to the Legend of Drizzt. Over the last week or so. I should note here both my hatred for the character of Drizzt. And the fact that Salvatore never uses one word when three or even four will do. That said, the offer of the audiobook for free tempted me. Also, Ice T did some of the narration. And I really wanted to hear his take. Encounter Difficulty in Lost Mine of Phandelver. September 27, 2014. I know...
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Review: Secrets of the Old City from Immersive Ink | Skald's Forge
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Review: Secrets of the Old City from Immersive Ink. January 2, 2015. January 2, 2015. I’ve not yet had the opportunity to play an RPG that takes place in an urban environment. I’d really like to do that soon, however. To that end, I’ve picked up a few products to explore the ideas. This includes Vornheim. So this post is instead about Secrets of the Old City. Found via OSR Today. It didn’t cost me anything, after all, and hopefully it could provide some inspiration. An earlier version. You are commenting...
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Play Report: Relic Hunters Guild Session 3 | Skald's Forge
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Play Report: Relic Hunters Guild Session 3. December 23, 2014. December 22, 2014. The Relic Hunters returned to Dyson’s Delve Sunday afternoon. As usual, they made a quick pass around the first level to ensure they wouldn’t have any nasty surprises running them. (That’s mostly due to one. Spell, the remaining hobgoblin focused on waking up its comrades rather than try to take on the adventurers by itself. They also use their. Last week, I upgraded. Why are macros not working right now? For future referen...
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Revisiting Lamentations of the Flame Princess | Skald's Forge
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Revisiting Lamentations of the Flame Princess. January 3, 2015. January 2, 2015. Since posting about various retroclone games. I’ve re-examined my opinions a bit. Thus, I decided to revisit. Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Something about the design kept calling me back. In part, the layout looks gorgeous, even in the free no-art version. Also, largely inspired by. I watched the 2009 movie. Do better than many other games? 8220;Maritime Adventures” get an entire chapter. More on this below. Alternati...
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Review: “A Practical Guide to Monsters” | Skald's Forge
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Review: “A Practical Guide to Monsters”. November 23, 2014. November 23, 2014. I recently got a copy of. A Practical Guide to Monsters. Reference volume for apprentice wizards, it lists 53 different monsters by my count. Each of them has a bit of fiction, a fact box (e.g. height, weight, habitat, diet, attack methods, etc.), and an artistic representation. If you think this sounds like a. Includes about the same number. A GM could easily convert the exceptions from other editions. Would particularly bene...
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January | 2015 | Skald's Forge
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Revisiting Lamentations of the Flame Princess. January 3, 2015. January 2, 2015. Since posting about various retroclone games. I’ve re-examined my opinions a bit. Thus, I decided to revisit. Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Something about the design kept calling me back. In part, the layout looks gorgeous, even in the free no-art version. Also, largely inspired by. I watched the 2009 movie. Do better than many other games? 8220;Maritime Adventures” get an entire chapter. More on this below. Alternati...
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Clunky mechanics in 5e | Skald's Forge
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Clunky mechanics in 5e. December 22, 2014. During Sunday’s session, I took notes on game mechanics and 5e rules that felt clunky or don’t work well in my view. I will likely write house rules for them, but first I wanted to see what others might be doing. Likely other DMs have already found better solutions than what I imagine. A character shoots at an arrow. It misses the enemy. Does it hit the character (player or non) behind it? Do these make sense? Do you have better ideas? On firing into melee, you ...
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Microlite20 and solo play: winging it | Skald's Forge
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Microlite20 and solo play: winging it. November 5, 2014. November 5, 2014. On quiet nights here at home, my daughter (just shy of 11 years old) occasionally asks if we can play D&D together. Tonight, I told her that we’d try something a little different. Rather than try to slog through a nerfed version of the. Lost Mine of Phandelver. We’d do things the way I did when I was about her age. Because we had precisely zero prep time, I didn’t have anything prepared for her. Donjon. She set off down the road, ...
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Losing ruleset weight: evaluating older RPG games | Skald's Forge
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Losing ruleset weight: evaluating older RPG games. December 20, 2014. December 21, 2014. Switching to another simpler game could certainly work. I don’t care one way or the other about labels. Like “OSR” (including whatever the abbreviation actually means to someone). But I do like the balance between crunch and freeform play in older games and “ retroclones. 8220;, which I lump together here for this purpose. None of the systems differ in large ways. Find a group you like on Roll20. Basic Fantasy Role-P...
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