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The Warden of the Iron Prison
One thing I’ve been trying to do in Faith—with mercurial success—is properly foreshadow enemies. Successful fighting anime and manga tend to introduce a villain, let them run roughshod for a bit to establish stakes, and eventually let the heroes beat … Continue reading
Campaign Catalog
During my hiatus, I made an attempt at paid DMing. It did not go great! Two of the campaigns I posted got zero interest, one got a single person who bowed out early before a second player could show, and … Continue reading
Running the Game: Devil May Cry
I like Devil May Cry a lot. I think I like spectacle fighters—the tongue-in-cheek name given to the subgenre by games journalist and developer Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw—in general, but I’ve only played a few of them, and of those I … Continue reading
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Tagged D&D 5E, Running the Game
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Running the Game: Metroidvania
Let me try something here. I have a lot to say about D&D, obviously. I’ve played it a whole bunch. But I, as a well-rounded human approximation with hobbies and favorite foods and the shallow husks of broken dreams, know … Continue reading
Adding Rules
The history of tabletop gaming includes a constant tension between rules and narrative. The whole hobby takes place somewhere between rules-free narrative (playing make-believe) and narrative-free rules (the instruction manual for your slow cooker). I’d bet money that every TTRPG … Continue reading
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Tagged D&D 5E, Under the Stars
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Modular Classes in D&D
It’s Four Job Fiesta week. I’m probably going to participate, and you can pop in on Twitch to see me flail ineffectually. But more relevantly for this blog, it’s reminded me of a class design space I’ve wanted to explore … Continue reading
Inflicted (Beta Version)
I’ve compiled the entire inflicted class into one convenient, excellently-formatted document. You can download it here. A few notes from the field: Pounce moved from L14 to L15. When I looked at everything together, L15 was a dead level with … Continue reading
Creating a Monster: Evolutions
I’ve expressed a lot of love for “here are X options; pick Y of them” features. They weren’t terribly common in 3E and they were absent entirely in 4E, but Pathfinder has a fair number of them, and I used … Continue reading
Creating a Monster: Monstrous Source
Yet again, feature names are proving to be the bane of my existence. I have no good idea for what to call the inflicted’s subclass options. Every class has its own name for its subclass, from the cleric’s divine domains … Continue reading