A new plan of attack involves more shorter posts, so that there aren’t months without anything. I stayed away from that here before because I keep really short thoughts to Facebook status updates (would be Twitters if I had any friends on Twitter, but I don’t), but there’s a place between rambling essays and one [...]
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Posted in D&D, Fictions, Internets, Movies, Personal, Television, Video games, tagged Facebook, Far Cry 2, Heroes, Letters from Africa, Overlord, Pushing Daisies, Quantum of Solace, Steam, The Forsaken Jewel, Twitter on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An Assassin, a Horse, and a Bomb
Posted in D&D, tagged campaign log, The Forsaken Jewel on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I wasn’t really prepared to start the campaign. For quite a while I knew where I wanted to get to with the first session, but not how; less than a week ago the ideas began formalizing. When we started I had a rough sketch, a plan that worked but has a number of holes of [...]
Calling for a Return to the Forsaken Jewel
Posted in D&D, tagged The Forsaken Jewel on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Half a millenium ago, the Children of Dragons emerged from the Dark Continent, sailed across the Great Sea, and brought the Empire to our shores. From the Jeweled City across the water, they brought order to chaos and light to darkness.
“We do not mean to extol the virtues of the Dragon Empire or to call [...]
Narrative space
Posted in D&D, Movies, Theory, Video games on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a storyteller. I see the world in stories. That’s not saying much, because this is true of everyone. What is a story, after all? It’s an organization of reality, an illusionary order imposed by our brains to make sense of the fundamentally nonsensical universe. So why say I’m a storyteller? Because it means something [...]
D&D 4E Character Sheets
Posted in D&D on August 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The standard D&D character sheets, while usable, are always capable of being improved. For 4E I got a particular itch to create anew because the editors seem to assume the use of index cards to keep track of powers (or at least some method separate from the character sheet), and I didn’t see why it [...]
D&D 4E Tortles
Posted in D&D on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Shortly after the release of D&D 4E I began developing my own custom content, mostly PC races. My first (and so far only) “professional” release has been my 4E tortle, a race of anthropomorphic turtles (or tortoises) originally from the Savage Coast setting. This release includes PC race stats, weapons, feats, and monster blocks. (This [...]
