Arrowflight character creation steps ...

1. Choose race.
2. Point buy attributes.
3. Randomly roll your social class (which can do anything from triple or halve your starting gold), whether you're from a rural or urban environment, and what your apprenticeship was. This will determine your background skills ( Read more... )

I finally made a start on reading my copy ( Read more... )

Look, I get that the Gencon Oz scheduling/rego system is different to that of standard Australian cons. But you know what? It's really not that difficult. In fact, some ridiculous number of people manage to use exactly the same system, with something on the order of a hundred times as many events to look at, every year for Gencon Indy ( Read more... )

The RPG: Age of Ruin
What it is: A pretty gonzo, small press, post-apocalyptic RPG published in 1990
What I saw: A race of psionic bad guys whose advanced mental mutation has caused the frontal lobes of their brains to grow, such that (and I quote) "their forehead looks like a butt".
And yes, they are listed in the game's bestiary under the title "

On Thursday, I took the bus up to Noosa to spend a couple of days with my sister and her fiance. En route, I ploughed my way through Bad Monkeys, which had an interesting premise and a sparkling beginning, but to my mind went off the rails in the last 50 pages or so.

While in Noosa, I introduced my sister to Dexter, which she seemed to like, even ( Read more... )

Been playing a fair bit of Doom 2 lately (I blame Kikoskia's Doom 3 Let's Play on Youtube). Have even dusted off the old level-making skills.

Glad to say that they seem to have held up OK :)


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An unusually abbreviated con report ( Read more... )

Saturday afternoon I caught up with mobdrazhar, who was visiting Brisbane. We had lunch, and I introduced him to Ring of Honor.

Saturday night was the Deus sandpit game. We fought zombies, mostly, with a dash of bickering amongst ourselves to break things up. Elite zombies are a tad tiresome to fight. Spectres that cause our Necromancer to nearly drown ( Read more... )

I went to Melbourne for Conquest - the Easter Games Convention. Much fun (and some pain) ensued.

( Don't read behind the cut if you don't want spoilers, or if you ran one of the games and don't like criticism. We didn't enjoy everything we played, and I'm not going to pretend we did. Also, this is LONG. You have been warned. )

Intended as a "impromptu" or "pick-up" game, when other plans fall through. Examples below are for a fantasy setting, but could be used for SF, horror, supers, etc.

Universal Mechanic: Only PCs roll dice. Whenever a PC wants to achieve something, or avoid something bad happening to them, the player rolls a GM-specified number of d6. As long as ( Read more... )