Learning from Las Pokemons
It’s a recurring theme over here that no matter how old school you are, there’s something you can learn from other games of the past 1-10-20-30 years, and that the other Most Popular RPGs are worth...
View ArticleZak’s questions prompt confession. Plus – what’s missing from Carcosa
So first, Zak’s 23 questions – and noisms’ responses – provoked some deep soul-searching in me. I find I can conceal the truth from you no longer. You see, I’m really not so much a gamer as an...
View ArticleHere, have 750 new monsters: Pokemon/DnD conversions
+Ian Johnson got me thinking about doing a conversion of Pokemon to DnD – after all, we know the stats for the entire Pokemon bestiary (that’s Pokedex to afficionados), and it’s a leveled game, so it...
View ArticleDamn you, Monte Cooke – how did you get that art out of my brain?
Monte Cooke’s kickoff into Moebius-inspired Science Fantasy strikes just the right visual notes for me – even if the support text makes me crawn*: Humanity lives amid the remnants of eight great...
View Articletrade goods by theft rating
Somehow over the past 2 weeks I’ve missed a great series of posts by Telecanter about procedural/random trading games. Right at the beginning of that series he asked about lists of trade goods and what...
View Article3 variations on a Monster-in-your Pocket Trainer for LL/BX
Be warned: long. 1 is a magic item. 2 is a character class (more or less). 3 is… me going off the deep end and kinda writing a spell that demands 17 new character classes. Ay yi yi yi yi. 1. Bilbil’s...
View ArticleSpiritrap: a variant on Bilbil’s Ravenous Phylactery for Pokemon-type...
A while ago I wrote a pokeball magic item for destabilizing your DnD game. Here’s a variant that affords different sorts of trouble, ideal for Tartary… The spiritrap can take any form but it almost...
View ArticlePokemon conversion notes (nothing to see here, move along)
So this isn’t even a real blog entry, it’s just me putting up my half-formed notes about how to do a Pokemon-to-LL conversion for Scrap, further to this discussion on G+. But if I were stupid enough to...
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