A few hours ago, we finished session three of the Gutterpunk campaign. During it, the two summoners, chilling on a flat roof after summoning the imp Bokaton and sending him to kill their enemies in the alley below, decided, what the hell, we’ve got the summoning circle already here, let’s just repair the bits that […] Read more
I have a post I’m working on about the Gutterpunk game I ran last night. However, I’m in the mood for random tables, and I happened to have this one lying around half-finished, so… STUPID LAWS Roll whenever the party reaches a new city, whenever some guardsman is pissed at the PCs, or whenever […] Read more
So I own this book called Vornheim; The Complete City Kit. The author, who’s blog I read regularly, is currently running a contest regarding this book. The due date for entries is tomorrow (by the time I’m done writing this and actually post it, it’ll probably look more like “later today”), and I don’t have […] Read more
A sort of cyberpunk-style photomanipulation, using a photograph of myself and one of the Philadelphia skyline. Read more
My character from a Spirit of the Century game I’m playing in. We just finished our first adventure, which has retroactively been titled “Blood on the Blue Grass.” I’ve been urged to turn what happened into a comic or something, and I think I might, because 1) SotC lends itself to amazing pulp-fiction action, and […] Read more
Played Gutterpunk for the first time yesterday, using my city-as-a-sandbox idea. The Nicks (Bov and Dorf) had said they weren’t going to be available yesterday, which had led us to plan the game for Thursday–which led to conflicts where Nathan would have had to leave for two hours in the middle of it, Dorf would […] Read more
I’ve had this idea for a while–the same idea that drove the creation of the Gutterpunk system I’ve been working on–for a game where instead of having a map of a few countries with cities, armies and plot hooks thrown in everywhere I’d have a map of one city, used to much the same effect. […] Read more
And now for all the little things that I didn’t get around to in the main posts… Your Brawn bonus will act as a bonus towards Unarmed attacks. Your Unarmed skill bonus is how experienced you are at hand-to-hand fighting, but no matter the experience raw strength certainly does play a part in it. Same […] Read more
It’s all about the Benjamens. Or the gold, or the silver, or whatever. WEALTH 10 copper=1 silver 10 silver=1 gold The above is the general rule for D&D. I’m going to break that down into actual coinage. Silver is the new gold: in the Lower City, gold is as rare as…well…gold. 1 gold=1 […] Read more
Character creation will use point buy. Players start with either 25 or 50 points. Haven’t quite decided on that yet. All characters have four ability stats: Cunning, Brawn, Dexterity and Charisma. When making an ability check, roll a d20 and add whatever your bonus to that ability is. Unlike D&D, you don’t have a static […] Read more
