July 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 am » Comments (4)

Here I begin a "chapter by chapter" breakdown of the rule changes in 3.old. First up, ability scores. As I've mentioned before, I think the linear bonus curve of the d20 ...more »

June 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm » Comments (1)

Blimey, it looks like I covered both the culture of pluses and the universal mechanic in the previous post, so it's time to get onto something more controversial. 3.old aims to ...more »

June 30th, 2009 at 8:56 am » Comments (4)

As I stated in my previous post, one of the main design goals of 3.old was to get rid of the unified mechanic, the d20+modifiers vs. DC mechanic that insidiously ...more »

June 29th, 2009 at 12:46 pm » Comments (11)

Delta has a great post about Games Within Games in which he talks about the advantages of using subsystems instead of a universal mechanic in roleplaying games. I have a ...more »

June 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am » Comments (0)

As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, Mrs. Droid and I have created a new way to play 3.x D&D. The genesis of this particular project was my desire to play ...more »

June 28th, 2009 at 9:06 pm » Comments (1)

Wow, this is really fun to watch. After you've watched it once, make sure to read the comment by Josh...it will make you want to watch it again! http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/61/ more »

June 13th, 2009 at 11:04 am » Comments (4)

In a reply to my previous post, Chgowiz invited me to clone (ha!) a poll he's running at his blog and several other websites. I figured I'd take him up ...more »

June 10th, 2009 at 11:54 pm » Comments (25)

I was recently pointed to a discussion at Knights & Knaves about one of my posts. (Links are at the end, to avoid HTML'ing the RPG Bloggers feed). Man, the ...more »

June 7th, 2009 at 7:13 pm » Comments (3)

What would happen if you doubled the combat speed of all PC's in a 3.x game? I'm sitting here imagining two changes to combat rules in 3.x. First, base PC speed ...more »

June 5th, 2009 at 1:05 am » Comments (0)

Ari Marmell, one of The Gamer Dome's favorite RPG designers and authors, wrote a Ravenloft novel that wasn't published before the line was killed. Wizards released the novel in serial ...more »