I mentioned to a friend that I was going to take a day off from my blog, then he mentioned an author who posts pet pictures when he doesn’t want to write that day. Now, I do have pets, but they are harder to photograph than dice, so here’s my GMing dice set! Contents: Chessex […]
A short post today, solving another eternal discussion. Doesn’t it feel good to know that no one will ever again discuss ways to randomly generate a Strength score? 3d6 down the line is classic and works well if all your stats are doing is providing modifiers for particular activities. Because the stats aren’t balanced in […]
I’m keeping it simple today with a few recommendations for RPGs which work well for open table play. Because I often have people new to my table, and sometimes new to Roleplaying, joining in I like to keep things simple. This also helps us spend more time in the roleplaying rather than in character generation […]
D&D, Pathfinder (also D&D) and most of the OSR (still D&D) uses the d20. A nice flat distribution where every number has a 5% chance of occurring. This is good, the probability of rolling any particular range is easy to figure out, +1 matters, but not too much. There’s a reason it is still the […]
Yesterday’s resolution of a never-ending argument seemed to go down well, you know, barring a few outliers who seem to want to keep discussing the topic as if there isn’t one perfect answer right there… Anyway, here’s another never-ending argument resolved! Roll-under Or Roll-over Some people like to roll their dice and add their bonuses […]
Roleplaying is fifty years old this year. There are some arguments/discussions/debates/jihads which have been ongoing for most of that time. Today I will resolve one of them once and for all! AC or DR? D&D, and many other games have armour make characters harder to hit. It is often said, “This is ridiculous, armour doesn’t […]
Fairly often when playing RPGs the whole group decides to do something together. A lot of systems have rules for these situations but they are often not great, so I thought I would share how I handle them. Oh, I’m specifically thinking of single tasks which pass or fail on one roll, not long term […]
I love dice, I own a ridiculous number. Sometimes I wonder if I love dice because I roleplay, or if I roleplay because I love dice… Anyway, let me tell you about my favourite, the humble weather dice. When GMing I always keep a weather dice handy. Unsurprisingly, I use it to roll up random […]
Most of my GMing in 2023 was at the weekly RPG night in Ancient Robot Games, the new FLGS which opened here in Leith back in May. I wanted to do my bit to help grow the community but I’ve always been more of a campaign GM than someone who runs one-shots. I didn’t think […]
I spent most of last year writing blogs to post here but not finishing them. I had thoughts I wanted to share, but somewhere between word 100 and word 600 I would either talk myself out of whatever revelation it was or I would lose interest in making those thoughts presentable. My wife would tell […]
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