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A light brush with physics
Or… back to some Traveller. Back in the day, the Traveller starter set, my introduction to the game, had the most useful starship system travel formulae in the main book, but these have been removed by Mongoose from their versions. … Continue reading
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Wavemaker for campaign and scenario writing
Thanks to my good friend Dom, I have just discovered Wavemaker a great, clean and powerful book writing application. It’s completely free and shows off the Progressive Web Application (PWA) framework really well. In additon to the core writng view … Continue reading
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Dungeons & Delvers – Core Rules
A contemporary dungeon crawler fueled by old school rules, flavor, and aesthetics, lovingly re-imagined and revised. Yes, what I really needed right now was another D&D variant… The most recent version of Dungeons & Delvers has emerged out of … Continue reading
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D20 Cognitive Overload
I sometimes make a rod for my own back; some may even say it is of Deadly Casting. At present I am running three different D20 Fantasy games: True20, D&D 4e and Pathfinder 2e. Each of these games are terrific … Continue reading
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Jumped back In to Traveller
Some playing about with my new Foundry VTT has propelled me into Jumpspace and back to Charted Space, through uncharted technology. North Star will open soon enough. I had been holding off thinking too much about it as I thought … Continue reading
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Traveller Hull Points – 2016 but not in 2020
I’m planning to run some Traveller online, either on the Role or Foundry VTTs. Something I have noticed is that in between printings of the core rulebook, the Hull ratings for common starships have been removed. During playtest (all that … Continue reading
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D&D4e II & True20
Second session coming up of our 4e mini campaign. Fortnightly is too infrequent, and I miss the game. With luck we’ll get the full roster of the ‘Sturm und Drang’ company to attend to create maximum mayhem. Sturm und Drang … Continue reading
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VTT Juggling
With 2020 firmly dominated by the Lets Role Virtual Tabletop (VTT), I am looking at a more mixed experience during 2021. Lets Role provides a great simple VTT for tactical maps and tokens. It lacks player Audio Video (webcams), which … Continue reading
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Will it be another F20 Year?
Last year’s gaming stats confirmed a dominent display of D20 fantasy games of various hues had been played and GM’d. I suppose that a year with the numeric 2020 really should see the d20 predominent, though really I should be … Continue reading
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First time D&D4e DM
Well, 12 years too late (it’s never too late), I am now a 4e D&D DM, having run my first session last night on the Role VTT with a great group of players. If you are only counting official D&D … Continue reading
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