Thursday, February 23, 2012

From Dragon's Foot

Opening remarks and mission statement.

The Nights are, in tone an temperament, more supernatural pulp than high fantasy. I don't want to run an Arabian Nights game; I want to adventure in the Arabian Nights universe - more the Golden Voyage of Sinbad than The Thief of Bagdad.

Back on topic.

For Mini Six there should be two levels of Perks in Magic Knowledge.

First level is "has some knowledge of". Usually the daughter of a cobbler or butcher "has some knowledge of" enchantments and can recognize a man who has been turned into a monkey and may know how to break the enchantment. Maybe even make reasonably useful charms.

The second level is "higher education". The can make explosives, acids, golems; can summon and bind jinn and demons; and make really useful charms.

You shouldn't have to buy separate Perks for Summoning, Alchemy, and Kabalism; but the skill for each has to be bought separately.

Looting D20 Microlite, again.

Massive freebie at RetroRolePlaying


more Steampunk......

Stargate 1895


The Steampunk supplement for Dice Chucker is way cool.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Getting a handle on Scribblar.

I'm getting a handle on Scribblar.

http://www.scribblar.com/

Great for pbp games.

Maps can be saved, and switched between Scribblar and Windows Paint. The trick is to layer the maps, the immovable stuff can be set as background on the whiteboard. One hitch has me puzzled. The whiteboard will expand to meet the needs of an active drawing, but working on a map with Paint, then uploading it, if the map is big, Scribblar will only set part of it as background. So far it is the whiteboard with the least hassles.

Design Notes for Highway from Hell.

I didn't write an adventure, I have a central idea and have created, so far, five One Page Adventures, more or less connected.

While working on an unrelated zombie apocalypse game with a friend, we came across some footage of the Hurricane Rita evacuation traffic jam, possibly the worst traffic jam in American history.

My first though was :"Wow what a place to get jumped by a zombie horde."

Perfect. A cramped metal maze to kill zombies, loot cars, and set fires.