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
Sorry it’s been so long since I last posted. I’ve been up at a friend’s lakehouse, celebrating fourth of July weekend. Happy freedom, everyone! While I was up there, I found the time to finish writing this demon summoning system I’d been working on. For use in any system you feel like using, but most […] Read more
Note from Adam: The following post was written by Connor, who’s running what I called “Acid-Trip D&D.” He asked if he could post an after-action report of the game on my blog, and I said sure, why the hell not. Everything after this note was written by him. Session 01 Friday, June 24-2011 Session name: […] Read more
First draft of Gutterpunk combat rules. Since a lot of the stats and whatnot are based on this, I figured I’d do it first. Still not entirely sure how I’ll handle actually figuring out if you hit someone or not–I’m going to either have one d20 roll against a static AC or a roll for […] Read more
SCP Game (GMing) Konrad packing caviar and crackers (and not much else, really) in watertight containers to feed himself and Lord Howser in the jungles while they were searching for a crashed airship actually may have saved the lives of the entire party, though not in the way you might expect. Even if it’s just […] Read more
Before I get into the meat of this post, there’s a couple things I need to say first. 1) I’ve updated my SCP Game Report with the rest of it. It’s not much, admittedly, but I don’t recall the exact conversations that took place so I decided to just skim over them. I didn’t have […] Read more
I had planned for my next post to be a continuation of the play report for the first SCP game. But I just spent an hour and a half talking about D&D over Skype–an epic conversation that ended only when both me and the guy on the other end of the line realized “Shit, it’s […] Read more
More memorable quotes from my D&D game, courtesy of a few people who reminded me of some I’d forgotten: ________________________ Sh’vass: “Wait, guys, I got this–owlbear.” ________________________ Verrick: “Hold on a second, I need to feed the shoulder-fish.” ________________________ Dragoon: “Who’s in there?” Sh’vass: “Bill.” Dragoon: “…Who?” Sh’vass: “…Frank?” ________________________ Atlas: “So I’m hoping they […] Read more
