Posted: February 10, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: Card Games, Meta, Other Hobby, Other Systems, Products, RPG |
Wizard’s of the Coast and Hasbro released a Press Release today which I will not post or excerpt because it takes up too much space, but which you can read here. If you want to. I’ll give the finer points and some storytime right here. I played a lot of Duel Masters back when it was released. There’s the meme among people that Dennis hates tabletop games – he’s criticized practically every game under the sun, including the vaunted D&D (all kinds) and indie storygames, and yet he plays things like Dark Heresy, Maid: RPG and Sword Girls. Well you can add Duel Masters to that “list of things Dennis doesn’t hate for some reason.” In fact I REALLY like Duel Masters. However, given its previous history I have some cause for trepidation…
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Posted: February 6, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: D&D 3.5, D&D 4e, Dark Heresy, Deathwatch, Legacy D&D, Meta, News, Other Systems, Products, Rogue Trader, RPG |
Today I’ve got a review up at Critical Hits for Rogue Trader: Hostile Acquisitions. It’s a fairly long and detailed review in my usual way. I’ll be joining the fine folks at Critical-Hits henceforth, reviewing stuff over at their site. I think this is a handy arrangement, since it lets me focus more on what this blog is about, which is worldbuilding, homebrew and the World of Adel, while still getting to air my thoughts on RPGs. I’ll be reviewing all kinds of stuff, but if you have any suggestions, or products you’d like to see reviewed (that, hopefully, are actually on sale, preferably at DriveThruRPG and RPGNow, where I get my stuff), email me, or send me a note on Twitter (@WyattSalazar), or leave a comment in one of my reviews.
Posted: February 5, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: Meta |
I want to thank everyone who showed me their support these past few days. I want to let everyone know that their contributions really helped and have made a difference. I have paid off some bills that had been chewing at me for long. I have met several wonderful people, and am looking into some work. I was stunned to see how many people just said “you’ve done enough, I’ve read your blog for years now, and that’s enough repayment for me.” I was floored to see so many reactions, and so much support. I was glad to see requests and offers. And I am glad to be able to work with new and great folk now on some pretty cool stuff I hadn’t done before. I am incredibly humbled, and more importantly, incredibly energized. I will keep giving my best to you all, and more importantly, I hope to be giving you my best in more ways than ever.
Posted: January 31, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: D&D 4e, Dramallamas, Fluff/Inspiration, Legacy D&D, Meta, Other Systems, RPG, Spirits Of Eden |
FEBRUARY 4TH, 2012 EDIT: Thank you everyone for your support the past few days. The response has been incredible. I have met some wonderful people, and am working on completing some requests, and hashing out some work. To everyone who donated, retweeted, emailed, and offered support, I can’t thank you enough. And to everyone who might donate in the future, I extend the same thanks, and the same humility and admiration.
The long and short of it, is that I’m in trouble. I’ve hit bottom, and I don’t know what to do. I’ve exhausted all other options. I want to ask for your generosity and empathy. I’m uncomfortable just asking for help. I’m willing to work for it. If you want me to do something, I will try my hardest to do it. I want to earn your help, and to give something back to you. I hope you will read on for my story.
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Posted: January 26, 2012 | Author: Dennis N. Santana | Filed under: Expedition, Homebrew, Meta, Other Systems, RPG |
Hey, Expedition is not dead yet! In fact, I’ve gotten a lot of good work done!
(No release date yet, but nearly all the character bits are complete. The GM and Monster sections will, as usual for me, be more complicated to serve. I’m shooting for a spring release of the playtest though.)
A long time ago I wrote an RPG called NAA D6. It was fairly playable if a bit esoteric in places. I liked a lot of the rules of that RPG, and since getting out of that minimalist rut I’d thought to trap myself in, I’ve brought back some of those rules. But today isn’t really about that. Instead, I’m going to post the “tutorial chapter” called “Character Generation Steps” which will summarize the character generation, then post a few examples of what you’ll be looking at in some of the sections. There will be no commentary on it, because I feel I’ve more or less exhausted my design commentary at this point. We sort of know the general goals here by now, and it feels like in each of these post I try to find a fifth leg on a cat for something to say. So here we go.
WARNING: Sword Girls visual spoilers at the end of the post. (Like you care.)
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