Recently my brain has been mulling over Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe. In which the author, with the breathless excitement of Wired writers, explains how “the power of the crowd” is going to eventually produce everything and change the shape of business. While I do agree with the points made thus far (I’m about half way [...]

We will be holding a chat event tomorrow, 8/4/2010, over at the IRC channel.  It will begin at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST.  Please let interested people know. The subjects will include: Converting a reluctant D&D player to Savage Worlds Designing an epic Boss Fight Anything else that comes up You can find the channel [...]

Unlike their D&D counterparts, Savage Worlds Wizards don’t have a plethora of spells littering their character sheet. Also, there isn’t a described cantrip mechanism that lets them do little magical things all day. But that’s a problem that a little imagination can fix without altering the rules at all using skill trappings. What are Skill [...]

In my gaming career, I’ve received a lot of treasure.  Magic items, rare paydata, and more gold pieces than I could count.  In fact, I could probably buy a medium sized country with that, were it real gold.  Perhaps I’d save some as a hedge against inflation. In truth, most of it isn’t memorable.  It’s [...]

Now I shall tell you who I think deserves to win each category. Obviously, I can’t have a fully informed opinion on every product. I haven’t read them all, or even heard of everything on the list. Chances are, you haven’t either. For that reason, I’ll try to be fairly thorough in my reasoning, but if you disagree with something, yell at me in the comments. Flame wars are good for business.

Yesterday I wrote about my love for pre-builts, be it adventures, characters, or settings. Anything that I don’t have to generate earns some love from me. When I was writing the article however I couldn’t help but come up with a rebuttal against my own argument. After all when I started gaming it was extremely [...]

I first played Dungeons and Dragons about ten years ago.  Never will I view a polyhedral die in quite the same way as it will always make me think of a thief named, Mr. Bigglesworth. Mr. Bigglesworth came to life late on a sunny Fourth of July about ten years ago. We we’d lit off [...]

Over the weekend I found an exciting new opportunity, I got to introduce a young geek to the joys of roleplaying.  My new brother-in-law came by on Sunday to hang out with us, and I convinced him (with no arm twisting at all) to join my Savage Worlds game.  As a 15 year old kid he [...]

In D&D to change a setting you need to add to the world. Savage Worlds you modify the descriptions, or the trappings, no crunch change required.

Every couple of years I get a hankering, an itch in the base of my brain to replay old games. I just wish you could package up the feelings and love for a game into a tabletop RPG session.