Looking for a D&D 3.5 Maptools game?
Posted: May 30, 2011 Filed under: D&D 3.5, Legacy D&D, Online Gaming, RPG 3 Comments »Recently had a sort of test session for a 3.5 game – would’ve been a fuller session, but most of the group disappeared. So I thought I’d do my part and help the GM out by asking if anybody’d be interested in playing. The GM is getting back into the groove of things after a year’s absence from D&D, but he has interesting ideas and his heart’s in the right place. So if you’re interested, read on.
•You can contact the GM at this email address: a_bomb37[at]hotmail.com. Ask for character generation help and setting fluff, and he’ll deliver it. You can talk to him over AOL Instant Messenger too, but ask him about that.
•The game uses D&D 3.5. The GM allows any book published by Wizard’s of the Coast EXCEPT for the Book of Exalted Deeds or Vile Darkness. This means your tome of battle or psionic character is totally welcome. The game is Level 5 and is mostly a sandbox-y kind of campaign. Right now the two characters (me and another guy) who’ve joined up are probably gonna go tramp around in the mountains to explore a cave abandoned by a gold dragon once affiliated with Bahamut.
Adventurous Professions: Cartographer
Posted: May 30, 2011 Filed under: Adventures, Campaigns, D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Fantasy Professions, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, RPG 3 Comments »A Mapmaker or more formally, a Cartographer, is a fairly innocuous profession that one would not immediately associate with swords and magic and derring-do. A Cartographer creates maps, choosing in which ways to depict an area to ease future travels, to make known political boundaries, and to plot sources of natural resources for continued exploitation. Most fantasy worlds are either mostly uncharted, only partially charted, or containing yet-uncharted places.
Even though a geographic area might be charted, there is room for improvement, and therefore room for a more detailed cartography. So even in a fantasy world where most of the known world is mapped, there are always more maps to be made – maps of dungeons, charting of natural resources, charting of the seas, more detailed maps of an area such as geologic maps, etc. A Cartographer always has something to aspire to, and always makes a good fantasy profession to take.
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Monsters: The Prelude (Monster Vault Part 0)
Posted: May 28, 2011 Filed under: D&D, D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Fluff/Inspiration, Meta, Monster Vault, News, RPG 2 Comments »
Homebrew Diary #3: Blending Things Together
Posted: May 25, 2011 Filed under: Copper Coins!, Homebrew, Houserules, RPG Leave a comment »I created and released a game called High Score pretty much on a whim. I had a fun idea for a mechanic and I wrote a whole game around that concept. I received brilliant feedback on it from a number of a sources, and I was excited and went back to work fixing some of the problems and tweaking some of the mechanics there. That tweaking and fixing involves making High Score a part of a Copper Coins! – Copper Coins’ non-combat resolution system will, basically, be a tweaked High Score system. In Copper Coins! it is referred to as the Success Pool, and works in ways similar but also different than before.
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