Roles, Rules, and Rolls
Saturday, 9 July 2011

WTF, A Contest?

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For those of you who don't mind the sympathetic mockery served up by Something Awful's WTF, D&D? feature, they are having a cont...
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Thursday, 30 June 2011

Tables and the Military

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A brief interlude from the hit points posts, spurred on by DaveL's observations in the comments about the clunkiness of armor class tabl...
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011

The Character's Hit Points

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My current game goes with the idea that the hit points of player characters and other beings with character levels represent some intangible...
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Tuesday, 28 June 2011

The Battleship's Hit Points

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Hit points evolved from the game Battleship? Close. Dave Arneson in this interview traces the concepts of hit points (and armor class, fo...
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Sunday, 26 June 2011

The Panda's Hit Points

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I guess everyone who writes about D&D has to tackle the enigma of hit points sometime. Here's the basic paradox: 1. Hit points are...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Unsexy Matriarchies

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I’ve been vacillating about whether to include feminist/intersectional gaming blogs like The Border House and Go Make Me A Sandwich in ...
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Saturday, 18 June 2011

Another Simpler DCC Idea: Wild & Critical Spells

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So it seems the Mighty Deeds (why did I think Feats?) commentary and replacement rule was well received. Here's another idea for taking...
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Researcher in social science and appreciator of hexy wargames, role playing games, interactive fiction, board games, and CCGs. I've learned a lot doing design and rules editing work on the side for the Legend of the Five Rings CCG. But this blog is mostly about other things.
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