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The House of Orbus: May 2014
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Saturday, May 31, 2014. XXVc- Fast Talk issues. One of my players whipped a successful Fast Talk roll on one of my gennies which lead to an interlude wherein I had decipher exactly how the skill worked. The rules don't really go into much detail and as far as I know there isn't another similar TSR game that has that skill. But there was nothing about duration, number of targets, or how soon you could retry in case of a fail. Vexing. Anybody know of a TSR game I can go to as a reference? If you know me (a...
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The House of Orbus: June 2014
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014. B/X Notebook- Thieves and Scrolls and Gods and Everyone. One change I forgot to list before is removing the Thief's ability to read magic scrolls, which begins at 10th level. If there was one good reason for a thief to be able to do that, I'd probably let it slide. However, a couple of years back I posited the (paraphrased) question "Why can thieves cast spells from scrolls when no other non-magical class can't? Okay, onto the next subject which is just to clarify a point I'd made...
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The House of Orbus: November 2013
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Sunday, November 17, 2013. Buck Rogers High Adventure Cliffhangers. Recently I grabbed a cherry copy of the Buck Rogers Adventure Game. Or High Adventure, not sure which) on Amazon for what seemed like a reasonable $25. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Buck Rogers High Adventure Cliffhangers. Look into my EYE! View my complete profile. Castle of the Bloated One - Ruins of Ja'ron Fer'oc: Level 9. Welcome To My World. Sword 2 of the 7 Swords. Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep! The Lair of the Evil DM.
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The House of Orbus: July 2014
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Friday, July 25, 2014. So, this is pretty simple. I had written about the Solar Alliance and felt that they should have been presented as more of a present threat on Earth than portrayed in the game. In particular, there was no identity to them- everything is RAM all the time. And, yes, RAM controls the Solar Alliance, but they, in turn control Earth. They needed a face. I may do more later on, but for now, enjoy these-. Solar Alliance Uniform Patch. Click to see full size. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The House of Orbus: XXVc Graphics 3- Luna
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Monday, November 17, 2014. XXVc Graphics 3- Luna. This is a reworking of some art from the XXVc sourcebook Luna. The art in that book was pretty typical of the XXVc line. Some of it, very little, was really pretty terrific (usually the work of one time Legion of Super-Heroes artist James Sherman) and the rest was kinda shoddy stuff, probably because TRS wasn't paying too well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). XXVc Graphics 3- Luna. Look into my EYE! View my complete profile. Welcome To My World.
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The House of Orbus: Fuck Yeah DragonQuest! That Damn Font.
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Sunday, September 21, 2014. For those of you DragonQuest fans that wanted to use the familiar DQ logo font, I have good news- you no longer have to use that ugly pretender to Thalia. I would like to direct your attention to Thaleia. A really nicely done clone of Thalia. The real one) that is available at most of the usual places you can find free fonts. Below is a side by side example of "DragonQuest" using both fonts. For the sake of the comparison, I had to almost double. Note that the art department a...
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The House of Orbus: October 2014
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Thursday, October 30, 2014. XXVc Notebook- Needle Gun Plus. XXVCR2 Earth in the 25th Century. Weapon of choice for the discerning Cannibal of Tomorrow and perhaps the stupidest weapon in the game. It is certainly insulting, along the lines of giving American Indians "futuristic" tomahawks* that shoot lasers or explode. While the idea on the whole is awful, the darts used are still interesting and worth using somewhere else. But where? Join me now as we take a journey into the Future. In a setting that al...
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The House of Orbus: September 2014
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Sunday, September 21, 2014. For those of you DragonQuest fans that wanted to use the familiar DQ logo font, I have good news- you no longer have to use that ugly pretender to Thalia. I would like to direct your attention to Thaleia. A really nicely done clone of Thalia. The real one) that is available at most of the usual places you can find free fonts. Below is a side by side example of "DragonQuest" using both fonts. For the sake of the comparison, I had to almost double. Note that the art department a...
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The House of Orbus: B/X Notebook- Let's Go to Hell!
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Friday, September 5, 2014. B/X Notebook- Let's Go to Hell! This was written for TSR's Known World/Mystara setting using the B/X ruleset. It incorporates elements of Wrath of the Immortals, the Known World Gazetteer series, Greyhawk, Fiend Folio and Bard Games' Atlantean Trilogy (specifically The Bestiary.) Mitra/Mithras is the stand-in for Jehova/God and is in most respects, the same deity.]. Special thanks to Ettin of Hexen for his assistance in tightening this up.]. And Greater Keys of Solomon. In the ...
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The House of Orbus: March 2014
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Friday, March 28, 2014. David A. Trampier Has Died Again. A couple of years ago I had a chance to interview someone who worked at TSR in the early days about Dave Trampier. The idea was to simply celebrate and give an analysis of the man's artwork, as I was and am such a huge fan. It's one of those things, y'know- the cassette got put in a drawer and forgotten; I moved on to other projects, etc. I dunno. What would Dave do? Sunday, March 23, 2014. Compiled By: Dave "Serpine" Rosson. If you sacrificed eve...
